Middleton, WI: All-Trans hockey team back on the ice
NBC reported on November 22 that Team Trans, a hockey team made up entirely of Transgender people, is back on the ice this year after the pandemic had kept them apart. The Boston-based team is the first of its kind, and after going six games undefeated in its 2019 friendship series against the venerable Boston Pride Hockey, last weekend they played against the Madison Gay Hockey Association. Team Trans goaltender Mason LeFebvre said to NBC News of the experience, "I keep meeting people that I've barely spoken to or haven't spoken to directly, and I feel like I already know them in a way, just because of the shared experiences that we've had in hockey spaces." Center Avery Cordingly said: "It's feeling like you don't have to get over a bunch of awkward hurdles before you can just exist together in a space."

Washington, DC: Second out judge nominated for federal court
LGBTQ Nation reported on November 21 that Pres. Joe Biden has nominated Alison Nathan, a Lesbian district judge, for a promotion to the US Court of Appeals. Nathan is the second out LGBTQ woman to be nominated for such a seat, the first being Beth Robinson, who was confirmed earlier this month. Nathan has worked closely with the Obama administration, and is notably the judge assigned to the case against Ghislaine Maxwell. "Needless to say," Nathan said of her nomination, "I'm very honored." But she will "continue to do my day job, which means presiding over this trial until completion and handling the hundreds of other civil and criminal matters on my docket."