TNN: Trans News Now – Jan 27, 2025
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President Donald Trump was sworn in to his second term. He signed more than 70 executive orders on his first day in office. Among the executive orders which got the most attention was his order to recognize only two genders, male and female, and to align those with the sex assigned at birth. The Associated Press has a story explaining what is in this executive order.
Orion Rummler and Kate Sosin of The 19th* think that President Trump will run into legal opposition on implementing portions which have to do with federal identity documents and housing transgender prisoners in federal prisons.
Erin Reed did a section-by-section analysis of President Trump’s long executive order on gender and identity.
President Trump’s executive order on gender clears the way for the removal of transgender people from the armed services. This comes at a time when the military is failing to meet its recruiting goals. This story comes from Military Times.
President Trump’s executive order on gender forbids the use of any designation other than “male” or “female” on U.S. passports. Currently issued passports will not be revoked, but passports will not be renewed with an “X” gender. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered his department to freeze all applicants who ask to have an “X” gender on their passports. The Guardian has this story.
President Trump’s executive order on gender also requires that all federal prisoners will be housed according to their sex assigned at birth. He is revoking the Prison Rape Elimination Act. This story comes from The Advocate.
One transgender federal prisoner who will not have to worry about President Trump’s new order is Jessica Watkins. She was among those who were sentenced to prison for their part in the events that took place at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. She was among 1,500 whose sentences were commuted by President Trump. The Advocate has this story.
As happened when President Donald Trump assumed office the fist time, various web pages were suddenly missing from the White House web site shortly after his return to the White House. Missing pages include various references to LGBTQ+ individuals and references to resources for those with HIV. This story comes from The Advocate.
Chase Strangio writes in Time magazine that Donald trump will not limit his attacks to transgender people. He writes, “When a small group of people is targeted, the attacks never stop there.”
As Gillian Branstetter of the ACLU reminds us, a Supreme Court ruling from just a few years ago found that discrimination on the basis of gender identity is indeed discrimination on the basis of sex. That is still the law of the land.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case in which parents asked that their child be excused from school lessons which involve LGBTQ+ identities, because of the parents’ deeply-held religious beliefs. This story comes from Them.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a bill which simplifies the process for changing one’s name. The previous method, which included printing a notice in a paper and being fingerprinted, assumed that one asking to change his or her name was doing so for the purposes of committing a fraud, according to Michigan Advance.
Karla Sofia Gascon has become the first openly transgender actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. Emilia Perez was nominated for Academy Awards in 13 categories. Out.com has this story.
GLAAD Media Awards nominations were revealed. Neither Emilia Perez nor I Saw The TV Glow were nominated. This surprised a lot of people, according to PinkNews.
The star of I Saw The TV Glow announced a name change. Previously billed as Brigette Lundy-Paine, they are now known as Jack Haven. Out.com says that the announcement came the day after Donald Trump signed his executive order on gender.
In Mexico City, a group of sex workers demonstrated at the judicial building, demanding that something be done to stop anti-transgender violence. This story comes from Them.
In Thailand, same-sex marriage is now legal. Laws against same-sex marriage have often been used to deny transgender people the right to marry or to force them to divorce before their new gender would be legally recognized. CNN has this story.
The Advocate reports that there was a 33% increase in the number of calls to the Trevor Project after President Trump signed his executive order on gender. Other mental health hotlines reported similar increases.
A new report from the Trevor Project and the Movement Advance Project shows definitively that anti-LGBTQ laws have made individuals look at moving out of state, with some actually taking such actions. The Advocate has this story.
This attack on transgender people comes at the very time when one of us finally has been elected to Congress. Until now, we have had no representation in Congress. Representative Sarah McBride tells The Advocate what is toing through her mind as she gets to Congress at this time.
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