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.

Under a new policy, Texas is no longer allowing people to change the gender listed on their driver’s license. It’s causing concern among advocates for the transgender community, who fear some Texans won’t be able to get documents that reflect who they are. NBC 5’s Keenan Willard shows us the impacts already being felt.

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

Billionaire Elon Musk says he’s moving the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X to Texas from California.

The Texas Supreme Court has upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors, rejecting pleas from parents that it violates their right to seek care for their transgender children.

Texas democratic lawmakers sent a congressional inquiry letter to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) on Monday highlighting public colleges could violate civil rights if they ignore new Title IX updates

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.

A school board in Texas has accepted a voluntary separation agreement with its superintendent who was suspended after removing a transgender student from a role in the musical “Oklahoma!”

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.