LGBTQ News, 12/19/25
Angeline Binick
II. POLICY / LEGISLATION
GLOBAL NEWS
Australia: Queensland ban on puberty blockers for gender dysphoria to continue until at least
2031, LNP announces
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/19/queensland-ban-puberty-blockers-gender-dysphoria-2031
Australia: Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert
warns
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/20/some-will-take-their-own-lives-puberty-blocker-bans-in-queensland-and-nz-risk-extreme-harm-to-trans-youth-uk-expert-warns
POLICY / LEGISLATION
California school district near Nevada caught up in a dispute over transgender athlete policies
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/19/texas-judge-same-sex-marriage-supreme-court-obergefell/
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida/2025/12/19/new-proposal-could-abolish-floridas-gay-marriage-law/
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/12/19/advocates-say-mtg-bill-threatens-trans-youth-families-and-doctors/
FDA sends warning letters to companies selling chest binders
https://www.advocate.com/politics/fda-warning-letters-chest-binders
PRO-LGBTQ ADVOCACY
Creating Change Returns to Washington D.C. for 38th Convening for LGBTQ Advocacy
https://www.advocate.com/national-lgbtq-task-force/creating-change-returns-to-washington-d-c-for-38th-convening-for-lgbtq-advocacy-2674814750
HEALTH
Long waits and ‘unacceptable’ lack of data at NHS gender clinics in England, review finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/18/david-levy-review-nhs-gender-clinics-england
HATE CRIMES
California: San Fernando Valley LGBTQ+ community center Somos Familia Valle is trying to rebuild from a “traumatizing” break-in
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/grindr-attackers-thomas-bull-ethan-jeffs-and-patrick-moloney-sentenced-in-the-tauranga-district-court/XIPEF2WK45FY5IVRMMOMY56Q44/