LGBTQ News, 12/9/25

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Angeline Binick

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Dec 9, 2025, 5:10:00 PMDec 9
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I.     GLOBAL NEWS
II.    POLICY / LEGISLATION
III.   PRO-LGBTQ ADVOCACY
IV.   ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM
V.    MILITARY
VI.   INCARCERATION
VII.  HATE CRIMES
VIII. FASHION
IX.   ENTERTAINMENT

 

 

 

 

 

GLOBAL NEWS

 

UK: Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026



Rules on single-sex spaces pose risk to trans people’s mental health, UK charities say


UK trans women can use female changing rooms if no complaints, tribunal says


Scottish nurse wins part of her tribunal in trans doctor changing room case


Kenya: Rights Commission calls for urgent legal reform to protect intersex persons


Kazakh Senate tables anti-LGBTQ propaganda bill


Australia: Queensland government facing fresh legal challenge over controversial puberty blocker ban





POLICY / LEGISLATION

 

Supreme Court declines to hear Texas book ban appeal in case watched by free speech groups

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-texas-book-ban-605b45226dd6c98379fc0df706598098 



Can West Virginia ban Medicaid coverage for adult gender-affirming surgery? Appeals court to decide

https://www.advocate.com/health/wv-gender-affirming-surgery-ban



US Justice Department sues Virginia school board over transgender use of locker rooms

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-justice-department-sues-virginia-school-board-over-transgender-use-locker-2025-12-09/ 



Georgia law banning gender-affirming care for trans inmates struck down

https://www.advocate.com/news/georgia-prison-gender-affirming-care 



Michigan parent files Title IX complaint with allegations over transgender athlete playing in volleyball game

https://www.michiganpublic.org/education/2025-12-09/michigan-parent-files-title-ix-complaint-with-allegations-over-transgender-athlete-playing-in-volleyball-game 





PRO-LGBTQ ADVOCACY

 

Drag queen Pattie Gonia completes 100-mile trek raising $1m to make outdoors more ‘equitable’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/06/pattie-gonia-drag-queen-environmentalist 





ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM

 

Tucker Carlson and Milo Yiannopoulos spend two hours spewing homophobia and pseudo-science



Another University of Oklahoma instructor suspended in biblical psychology paper grading controversy


HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait





MILITARY

 

D.C. appeals court keeps Trump’s transgender military ban in place despite one judge’s dissent

https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-military-ban-continues  





INCARCERATION

 

DoJ moves to eliminate sexual abuse protections for LGBTQ+ people in prisons

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/doj-prison-lgbtq-sexual-abuse-protections 




 

HATE CRIMES

 

California: Anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes reached record-highs last year in Los Angeles

https://www.advocate.com/crime/anti-lgbtq-hate-crimes-california 





FASHION


Just not that into ewes: ‘Gay sheep’ escape slaughter and take over a New York catwalk

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/dec/05/gay-sheep-fashion-show-rainbow-wool 





ENTERTAINMENT

 

Women gamers boycott global esports tournament over trans ban

https://www.advocate.com/news/dead-by-daylight-womens-world-cup-trans-ban

 


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