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Trans News Now 7/22/24

ceciliab | Jul 22, 2024

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Ruby Corado

Ruby Corado, the founder of Casa Ruby, a place for homeless trans women, pleaded guilty to embezzling over $150,000 in COVID relief funds. Casa Ruby has since closed. The Advocate has this story.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill which would forbid school boards from forcing teachers or other school employees from outing transgender students to their parents. The law does allow parents to be notified if the child asks to change gender on their official record. The Hill has this story.

The Los Angeles Times reports that a school district in Southern California has already filed a suit against the new law protecting the privacy of transgender students.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said that the Washington University Pediatric Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital would shut down. Washington University said that the center is staying open. KSDK News has this story.

The state of Florida is quietly refusing to update the birth certificates of transgender people. They have not passed a new law, and gave no public notice before adopting the new policy. This story comes from The 19th.

A panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Tennessee’s law which bans drag performances in venues where minors can be admitted. The court ruled that the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the law. The Advocate has this story.

Sondra Wilson

Sondra Wilson alleges that going four years without receiving her gender-affirming surgery caused her harm. She is suing the Iowa for its refusal to use Medicaid to cover gender-affirming surgery. She is representing herself in court. Get the story from We Are Iowa.

A judge has ruled that a high school in Washington, D.C., cannot prevent students from founding a chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, despite the group’s anti-LGBTQ stances. This story comes from LGBTQ Nation.

The Republicans held their convention in Milwaukee last week. As expected, several of the speakers had very negative things to say about transgender people. The 19th has this story.

Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the G.O.P. has made limiting gender-affirming care its primary health care issue, according to Roll Call.

Donald Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, was born with the name James Donald Bowman. His mother divorced his father, Donald Bowman, after he walked out, and she remarried twice more, divorcing both her new husbands. J. D. assumed the last name “Vance:” while at Yale University. Daily Beast finds it ironic that Republicans will call their vice-presidential candidate by a name he chose, but will refuse to use a transgender person’s chosen name.

Emma D’Arcy

House Of The Dragon’s Emma D’Arcy has just become a star for their performance in the Game of Thrones prequel also found themselves on the forefront of nonbinary representation in Hollywood. Get the whole story from AV Club.

In its review of the contents of Project 2025, the 19th says, “Project 2025 equates the act of being transgender, or ‘transgender ideology’ to pornography and declares that it should be outlawed.” They also claim that treating minors with gender-affirming care is a “social contagion.”

The emphasis on anti-transgender legislation has caused at least one couple, life-long Republican voters, to abandon the party they have supported for so long, in order to protect their transgender grandson. They made a video for the Human Rights Campaign. You can see it at The Advocate.

Eve Lindley

Tina Romero, the daughter of George A. Romero, has co-written and is directing Queens Of The Dead, a new zombie film. (Yes, zombies are referred to as “the undead.) Brigette Lundy-Paine, the non-binary actor from I Saw The TV Glow, non-binary actor Becca Blackwell, and trans actress Eve Lindley have been announced as in the cast. This story comes from Out.com.

Britain recently had an election, in which the Labour party replaced the Conservatives. However, the new Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, is still relying on the disputed Cass Report and has said that he wants to make the ban on puberty blockers permanent. Many Labour MPs have come out in disagreement with him, PinkNews has this story.

An opinion piece in The Guardian calls for the decision to use puberty blockers be made by clinicians, not politicians. It seems logical, but the piece is written by a clinician, a doctor, so there may be some bias.

An art exhibit in Turkey, which explores that country’s transgender history, has been shut down by government order. This story comes from Art News.

J.D. Vance, the vice-presidential nominee for the Republican party, became friends with Sofia Nelson, a transgender woman, while a college student. That friendship ended when Vance started agreeing with Arkansas’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, according to Nelson. Newsweek has this story.

Trans News Now is assembled by Cecilia Barzyk with additional content and editing by Angela Gardner. Care to make a comment on this post? Login here and use the comment area below.