Transgender rights

Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a Dallas doctor Thursday for allegedly providing transition-related care to nearly two dozen minors in violation of state law.

A Vermont Christian school that is barred from participating in the state sports league after it withdrew its girls basketball team from a playoff game because a transgender student was playing on the opposing team has taken its case to a federal appeals court.

The Texas DPS will no longer allow transgender residents to change the sex on their driver’s license to align with their gender identity.

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, a former University of Pennsylvania student, has failed in her challenge against World Aquatics rules that stop her from competing in elite women’s races.

Before his transgender daughter was suspended after using the girls’ bathroom at her Missouri high school, Dusty Farr was someone else. Now, he has found himself in the unlikely role of fighting bathroom bans in the state.

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has announced a policy that all but bans transgender athletes from women’s sports.

The “Harry Potter” author slammed a newly enacted hate-crime law in Scotland in a series of posts on X in which she referred to transgender women as men.

The Sacramento City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to declare the California capital a “sanctuary city for transgender people.”

An Oklahoma district attorney said Thursday he doesn’t plan to file any charges in the case of Nex Benedict, the nonbinary 16-year-old Owasso teenager whose death following a fight in a high school bathroom was ruled a suicide.

Republican legislators are close to banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors in Kansas over the Democratic governor’s expected veto.

The death of Oklahoma student Nex Benedict has been ruled a suicide, according to a medical examiner’s report released Wednesday. 

The lawsuit, filed Monday in state court on behalf of the Long Island Roller Rebels, argues that the state’s human rights and civil rights statutes explicitly prohibit discrimination based on gender identity.

Rainbow Youth Project, a national LGBTQ suicide prevention group, also said calls increased ahead of a protest in Owasso, Oklahoma, by the Westboro Baptist Church.

Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old transgender student, died last month after a fight with three students in a school bathroom, drawing global media attention.

On Friday, Utah’s Republican-controlled Legislature passed a measure that requires people to use bathrooms and locker rooms in public schools and government-owned buildings that match their sex assigned at birth.

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine broke from his party Friday by vetoing a bill that sought to ban gender-affirming care for minors.

Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill Friday that sought to block transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming care or participating on sport teams that align with their gender identity.

Marina Machete, who was crowned Miss Portugal last week, and Rikkie Valerie Kolle, who became Miss Netherlands in July, will be among the 90 contestants.

A federal judge in Atlanta has allowed Georgia to resume enforcing a ban on hormone replacement therapy for transgender people under 18.