Catholic Church formally bans gender-affirming care at its hospitals
The country's largest nonprofit health care provider will no longer offer gender-affirming care.
November 13, 2025
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Kaiser Permanente ends gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 19
Kaiser will stop offering the surgeries as of August 29, but said that it will still offer other gender-affirming care.
July 24, 2025
100 transgender inmates presumed dead after Israeli missiles struck Iranian prison last month
Israel targeted the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran on June 23.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor slams gender-affirming care ruling as 'state-sanctioned discrimination'
Sotomayor said the ruling will invite "untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them."
June 18, 2025
Iowa bans Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for adults
The law prevents Medicaid from paying for hormone therapy or gender-affirming surgeries for trans people, but not for cis people.
June 12, 2025
Pope Francis dead at 88: Looking back on his LGBTQ+ rights legacy
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April 21, 2025
Trump orders NIH to study gender transition ‘regret.’ Here's what we already know about it
Trump wants to study transgender people's "regret," but people are more likely to regret having children than gender-affirming surgery.
April 7, 2025
Hormones and surgery improve transgender men's quality of life: study
A new study proves gender-affirming care directly improves quality of life among transgender men.
April 4, 2025
What is gender-affirming care, who uses it, and do they regret it?
Gender-affirming care is banned for transgender youth when it's mainly cisgender people who use it, and when it has a significantly lower regret rate than all other major surgeries, tattoos, and children.
February 13, 2025
JD Vance really wants you to know he's 'not gay' while lying about transgender youth
The Republican nominee for vice president compared gender-affirming care to conversion therapy in a recent interview with gay conservative podcaster Tim Dillon.
October 29, 2024
Donald Trump punches down on transgender people in hypocritical new Kamala Harris attack ad
Republicans are attacking the vice president for something Trump’s own administration provided to incarcerated trans people.
October 22, 2024
Why do inmates have access to gender-affirming care? Those Trump ads you keep seeing debunked
Republicans have spent $65 million on attack ads that target 0.6 percent of the population. Here's all the context they're missing.
October 22, 2024
Laverne Cox mocks the GOP's $65 million anti-trans ad buy: 'Made-up fearmongering'
"It doesn't even work," the trans actor reminded viewers on The Daily Show.
October 18, 2024
Indiana judge blocks law denying gender-affirming care to prisoners, ruling it’s likely unconstitutional
It’s a big victory for trans rights.
September 20, 2024
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The Jackass star planned to get the surgery done as a joke, until he actually had a conversation with a transgender person.
September 16, 2024
Charlie Kirk DID say stoning gay people was the 'perfect law' — and these other heinous quotes
These are some of his worst comments about LGBTQ+ people made by Charlie Kirk.