Transgender rights

We talked to several people in the trans community who wanted to share their experiences and how you should think about them and interact with them.

We talked to several people in the trans community who wanted to share their experience and how you should think about them and interact with them. NBC6’s Jamie Guirola reports

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.

Court documents show Jessica Norton filed a federal lawsuit against the Broward school district and the state.

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.

A federal appeals court has ruled that a Florida law banning gender-affirming care can be enforced while a legal challenge plays out. The decision handed down on Monday cleared the way for Florida to prohibit transgender minors from being prescribed puberty blockers and hormonal treatments, even with their parents’ permission. The law also requires that transgender adults only receive treatment...

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

The parents of the transgender girl at the heart of a controversy at Monarch High School spoke out Tuesday for the first time since the issue erupted last November. NBC6’s Ari Odzer reports

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.

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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.

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.