transgender rights

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.

Republicans in Pennsylvania are now moving to place restrictions on transgender student athletes. A doctor explains to NBC10 the effects of transitioning on people’s bodies.

“Right now there are hundreds of disgraceful bills pending in state legislature that target trans youth and aim to curb their rights,” the singer wrote on Instagram.

President Joe Biden said Thursday that his administration is “standing up” for transgender Americans against “hateful bills” being passed at the state level and that he is committed to advancing equality across society.

When nurse practitioner Dallas Ducar reflects on her childhood, she focuses on moments of what she calls “gender euphoria.” “Whether it was wearing the right clothes, getting to wear makeup very briefly, being able to very briefly be referred to as the right pronouns, those were what kept me alive,” she told NBCLX. Ducar, 29, didn’t transition until she was…

President Joe Biden is commemorating Transgender Day of Visibility by celebrating prominent transgender Americans.

A Republican proposal to prevent transgender girls from competing in girls’ school sports passed the Pennsylvania House Education Committee on Tuesday. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk has the details and spoke with a transgender teen activist who opposes the proposal.

A Republican proposal to prevent transgender girls from competing in girls’ school sports is advancing in the Pennsylvania Legislature

Republican governors in two states this week rejected legislation to ban transgender players from girls sports.

Spencer Cox told his fellow Republicans that he was moved by data showing that among 75,000 kids playing high school sports in Utah, only four were transgender.