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Legal advocates suggest any trans person who may need to obtain a passport with their accurate gender marker do so now, while the State Department is being forced to comply with a court order blocking Trump's anti-trans passport policies.
The Justice Department "will continue enforcing the law against institutions like Children’s National that mutilate children under the guise of medical care,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said about the D.C. hospital.
Here's what the law does.
Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire went against her party on these and other issues.
Did the Skrmetti ruling give states carte blanche to discriminate against all transgender people?
A federal judge ruled that the government violated her rights.
The Macrons are suing the right-wing influencer in a U.S. state court in Delaware.
“These are Americans who have served with honor, with distinction, and with unshakable patriotism,” the Delaware Democrat said
The film, Heightened Scrutiny, follows Chase Strangio as he prepares to argue in favor of gender-affirming care access for trans youth in U.S. v. Skrmetti at the high court, and captures the quiet radicalism of showing up.
The Office of Personnel Management has become the enforcement arm of Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ agenda.
Wells, a popular ballroom performer, was shot to death May 25, and her killer remains at large.
A new University of Vermont study found that 100 percent of respondents worried about their access to care after Donald Trump became president again.
The UN's preliminary report on sex-based violence incorrectly claims trans acceptance "erase[s] the legal category of women.”
The Heritage Foundation announced cofounder Edwin Feulner's passing Friday, though it did not reveal the time or cause of death.
While some Republicans stage political stunts to erase her, the first out trans member of Congress is quietly reshaping economic opportunity, with bipartisan backing.
The lawsuit does not accuse USMS of violating trans athletic participation laws, but of violating consumer protection laws.
The California governor spent more than four hours on the Shawn Ryan Show talking about, among other things, trans athletes, gender-affirming care, and "the whole 'pronoun' thing."
After a report linked Donald Trump to a lewd Jeffrey Epstein note, the Georgia Republican tried to shift focus to drag queens, Pride, and trans people.
"This administration has made a dangerous decision to play politics with real young people’s lives," Trevor Project CEO Jaymes Black said.
The r/trans subreddit is supposed to be a place for trans people to share their experiences, but one user says he was met with unnecessary backlash.
