TNN: Trans News Now – Dec 16, 2024
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The Montana state Supreme Court issued a ruling upholding the lower court’s stay on implementing the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The ruling is a pre-trial motion, but t does indicate a likelihood that those opposing the ban will prevail at the trial. NBC News has this story.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a military appropriations bill with an amendment which prohibits the use of this money to pay for gender-affirming care for members of the families of people in the military. This story comes from CNN.
The Advocate reports that more than 40 Senators oppose the provision denying funds for gender-affirming medical care. If the Senate does not keep the provision in its version of the bill, then a conference committee will have to settle the difference.
The United States Supreme Court declined an appeal to review a Wisconsin court decision which keeps a school district from informing a student’s parent or guardian if their child changes name or gender presentation at school. CNN has this story.
During last week’s oral arguments in United States v. Skrmetti, Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to take the stance that the justices are not medical experts, and therefore are unfit to overturn the law. This ignores the fact that the legislators who passed the law are not medical experts, nor are the voters who voted for those legislators. An article in Mother Jones suggests that this is a part of a plan to allow the states to limit transgender rights while limiting other attacks on civil rights.
President-elect Trump has chosen Harmeet Dhillon to be the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Ms. Dhillon is a far-right lawyer with a long record of opposing LGBTQ rights. She represented Chloe Cole, a detransitioner who is now an anti-transgender activist. This story comes from Erin Reed.
Transgender people in Washington, D.C., are afraid that they may lose their health care when Donald Trump becomes president. WAMU public radio has this story.
Hate crimes against transgender people more than doubled last year–or did they? Yes, there was a 125% increase in the number of crimes classified as hate crimes, but some of that may be due to an increase in the willingness to call a crime a hate crime. This story comes from the Los Angeles Public Press.
Two pre-filed bills in the Missouri legislature would make it harder, if not impossible, to change the gender listed on a driver’s license or state ID card. The Missouri Independent has this story.
In an interview with Time magazine, President-elect Trump, the magazine’s man-of-the-year, said that he thinks that people are making too much of trans rights issues, which he feels are not that big of an issue. This story comes from LGBTQ Nation.
Erin Reed has released her post-election assessment of the Anti-Trans Risk Assessment map. The risk level is high, both for transgender children and transgender adults.
The United States is not the only country where politicians are enacting anti-transgender policies. In the U.K., puberty blockers are banned “indefinitely” for minors with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. This story comes from Them.
Karla Sofia Gascon is the first transgender woman nominated for a Golden Globe award as Best Actress. She was nominated for her performance as the title character in Emilia Perez. The Advocate has this story.
A student at U.C.L.A., Kaya Breen, is suing her doctors and hospitals for medical negligence, saying that she was misdiagnosed with gender dysphoria and “fast-tracked onto the conveyor belt of irreversibly damaging puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, and surgery. While it is true that she is only 20 years old, which seems young to be post-operative, but the attitude of the patient is likely a component of that speed. While the article from NBC News does not specifically name a conservative legal group, it seems like it could be their handiwork.
Maven Maurer was a fullback and special teams player in the Canadian Football League a couple of decades ago. Since retiring, she has transitioned genders. She recently returned to B.C. Place in Vancouver, for a celebration honouring the 2000 Grey Cup champions, a team she was part of. She attended the reunion as her authentic self. This story comes from the CBC.
Newsbreak has a list of seven legal documents to change before January 20.
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