TNN: Trans News Now – Sept 16, 2024
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Sarah McBride won the Delaware Congressional Primary, and will be the Democrat’s nominee for the state’s only seat in Congress. If she is elected, she will be the first out transgender person in Congress. The Associated Press has this story.
The first Gender Liberation March took place in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. You can read about it in Them.
More than 160 Democratic lawmakers have signed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in a case that concerns transgender rights. The case concerns the constitutionality of Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors. The Advocate has this story.
The Committee on Education and the Workforce voted to approve a hill which will out transgender students to their parents. The bill can be voted on by the entire House of Representatives in this term. This story comes from LGBTQ Nation.
Vice-President Kamala Harris had her debate against Former President Donald Trump this past week. Among his statements, Former President Trump said, “Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.”” While Vice-President Harris has supported giving transgender inmates gender-affirming medical care, and took steps to provide such medical care to prisoners while serving as Attorney General of California, she did not specifically say that she supported gender-confirming surgery for inmates awaiting immigration hearings. ABC News has this story.
A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the hold on the state of Arizona’s ban on transgender athletes. This story comes from LGBTQ Nation.
A transgender woman known as Redd was shot to death in Chicago. She was 26 years old. You can read about this story in Them.
A man in Minnesota was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of Savannah Ryan Williams, a transgender woman, last November. NBC News has this story.
A judge in California has sided with the state and issued a permanent injunction against a school district which passed a policy of notifying parents when their child asks a school to refer to them with a different name or pronoun. The same judge had previously issued a temporary injunction. This story comes from The Advocaat.
Aetna Insurance is being sued by three transgender women for not providing facial feminization surgery to transgender patients. Similarly, surgery was approved for cisgender patients, according to The Advocate.
A new study from the Sax Institute shows that puberty blockers are safe to take at the typical prescribed dose and that their effects are reversible.
Lilly Wachowski is putting together a new movie about a trans gean who leaves a fundamentalist cult and becomes partners with other LGBTQ teens for survival. The movie has both trans and autism themes, according to Them.
Chilli Pepper has passed away. She was a performer, back when drag queens were called “female impersonators.” (Yes, some “female impersonators” were different from drag queens in some ways.) Her obituary can be found in Them.
In Britain, the Office of National Statistics said this week that the most recent census may have overestimated the number of transgender people living in he U.K. They believe that some people whose English is not that good may have misunderstood the question. BBC News has this story.
France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, was awarded 8,000 Euros in damages for a rumour that she is actually male. The Advocate has this story.
A new ride-sharing service called SheRides has been set up to serve Pakistan’s transgender community. This story comes from the Associated Press.
Forward has this story of a transgender Jewish boy who had his bar mitzvah recently. He used the same bimah and the same Torah portion which he had used for his Bat Mitzvah back in 2010. One reason for the Bar Mitzvah ceremony was to affirm his gender.
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