transgender rights

Chrystinne Wood got a rousing applause from supporters during the  Santee City Council meeting on Wednesday after the 66-year–old transgender mother shared the agony she says she’s suffered from what she calls a manufactured incident by a teenage girl.

NBC 7’s Omari Fleming was at the city council meeting and heard the peak of the drama.

The office of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this summer sought data on how many people had changed the gender information on their driver’s license, according to a Washington Post report.

Vermont’s first transgender lawmaker got engaged to her partner while the White House was lit with rainbow lights.

A court filing says the veteran’s daughter has been denied treatments recommended by doctors due to a federal statute dating 1976 that excludes surgical treatments for gender transition.

An LGBTQ advocacy group says at least 32 transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed in the United States in 2022.

A federal appellate court says a national beauty pageant has a First Amendment right to exclude a transgender woman from competing, because including her could interfere with the message the pageant wants to send about what characteristics make an ideal woman.  Wednesday’s 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by Anita Green, who...

A new law aims to stop other states from punishing children who come to California for transgender surgeries and other gender-affirming care, a move that will intensify conflicts between Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Republican governors amid the country’s escalating culture war.

Maren Morris shared she doesn’t feel at “home” at the 2022 CMA Awards after she and Jason Aldean’s wife Brittany Aldean exchanged harsh words online.

Professor Khiara Bridges went viral this week after her exchange with Sen. Josh Hawley during a hearing on abortion rights. She called out the Missouri senator for transphobia after he questioned Bridges’ use of the term “people with a capacity for pregnancy.” That term is more inclusive of trans and nonbinary people who are capable of getting pregnant, explains Leslie...

Pride month shines a spotlight on the people and organizations working to serve the LGBTQ+ community. But those groups are doing this important work every day of the year. We’re talking about places like Brave Space Alliance. It’s the first LGBTQ resource center on Chicago’s Southside that’s both Black and transgender-led. BSA is open every weekday and provides services like...

Ohio passed a law that would require student athletes to submit to invasive gender inspections, and athletes whose identity is disputed would have to provide a doctor’s statement about their anatomy. The bill aimed at trans athletes passed after it was slipped into an unrelated bill in a nighttime legislative session. Kathryn Poe of Equality Ohio joined LX News to...

Schuyler Bailar, a Harvard alum who was the first trans athlete to compete in NCAA Division I, says the pushback against trans athletes in sports is fueled by ignorance and propaganda. Now, he teaches gender literacy and has to break through “knee-jerk reactions” and go deeper into the topic to help people understand. “I have changed lots of people’s minds...

Dozens of civil rights groups and medical institutions say gender-affirming care for trans people can save lives. Contrary to those groups, the state of Florida could move to restrict Medicaid dollars from being used toward gender-affirming care, with health officials and Gov. Ron DeSantis claiming the scientific evidence supporting trans health practices is “weak.” The move could bring the influence...

A federal judge has blocked part of an Alabama law that makes it a felony to give gender-affirming puberty blockers and hormones to transgender minors. U.S. District Judge Liles Burke issued a preliminary injunction on Friday to stop the state from enforcing the medication ban while a court challenge goes forward. The law took effect on May 8. Parents with...

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday allowed the state to resume investigations into parents of transgender youth for child abuse while also ruling in favor of one family investigated following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday challenged an Alabama law making it a felony for doctors to treat transgender people under age 19 with puberty-blockers and hormones to help affirm their new gender identity.

Kansas appears unlikely to join the growing number of states banning transgender athletes female sports in schools and colleges, and Tom Witt is one of the main figures behind that effort.

A Missouri state representative went viral this week after delivering an impassioned speech opposing a transgender sports bill. The bill, which later passed 89-40, bans transgender girls from competing on girls’ sports teams.

Alabama has become the first state to criminalize the use of puberty blockers and hormones to treat transgender people under age 19.