Detransition is rare, but it’s driving anti-trans policy anyway
Political rhetoric doesn’t capture the complexity of detransitioning — or what taking away health care means.
November 12, 2025
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Arson at Georgia gender-affirming care clinic investigated as hate crime
A fire at a clinic that provides gender-affirming care is being looked at through the lens of recently passed hate crime legislation.
January 30, 2024
As Transgender ‘Refugees’ Flock to New Mexico, Waitlists Grow
Thanks to New Mexico's gender-affirming care protections, many trans Americans are seeking health care in its hospitals and clinics. But health care facilities say it's been overwhelming.
November 6, 2023
Hundreds protest Pittsburgh hospital for caving to Trump and denying trans youth gender-affirming care
Almost 200 people alone showed up at UPMC’s hospital in Pittsburgh, home to the largest gender clinic in Southwest Pennsylvania, and continued to make their voices heard even as rain poured on the rally last week.
April 10, 2025
U.K. to begin major study on health of transgender youth
The study comes at a time when gender-affirming care is under attack in the U.K.
August 2, 2025
Words to the Wise
A glossary of basic sex and gender terms you should know. Note: Terminology is hotly debated and ever-evolving.
December 3, 2007
State Department Revoking Trans Women's Passports
The Trump administration is launching another attack on transgender Americans.
July 30, 2018
Washington University Transgender Center Stops Prescribing Medications to Minor Patients
A new Missouri law allows current patients to continue receiving care, but a provision of that statute makes prescribing those medications “untenable.”
September 12, 2023
Online Hate Fuels Attacks on Gender-Affirming Care Providers: Report
Anti-trans rhetoric from sources such as Libs of TikTok bears much of the responsibility, says the HRC Foundation report.
December 15, 2022
Why Must We Keep Diagnosing Trans People as Ill?
Thinking of a future where trans identity is not connected to pathology.
July 16, 2020
Puerto Rican Court Looks at Gay Adoptions
Puerto Rico currently does not allow same-sex couples second-parent adoptions.
November 23, 2009
Backlash to transgender health care isn’t new − but faulty science used to justify it has changed over time
As in the 1930s, opposition to trans medicine today is part of a broad reactionary movement against what some far-right groups consider the “toxic normalization” of LGBTQ people.
February 4, 2024
We Can Make Health Care Less Scary for Transgender Patients
Seeing the doctor can be an exercise in frustration and even humiliation for trans patients, but communication goes a long way.
July 9, 2019
Alabama Law Criminalizing Gender-Affirming Care for Youth Takes Effect
Opponents of the law have asked a judge to block it, but that hasn't happened -- and doctors and patients are deeply concerned.
May 9, 2022
Trans Boys Sue University of Missouri Over Denying Them Gender-Affirming Care
A recently enacted state law bans most such care for minors but allows those already receiving it to continue — but the university ceased providing the care altogether.
November 17, 2023
Empires that won't fall
A short film was recently pulled from San Francisco's Frameline film festival because it was said to reinforce transphobic stereotypes articulated in Janice Raymond's 1979 book Transsexual Empire. The question is, How has her oversimplified thinking survived?
July 3, 2007
Va. Crafts Policy for Trans HS Athletes
The governing board of the Virginia association overseeing high school athletics recently adopted a policy that would allow trans participation in athletics, but the stipulations could make it tough for some students to take advantage.
February 20, 2014
Over a dozen states sue to protect gender-affirming care from federal investigations
A new lawsuit argues that the Trump administration is pursuing a backdoor strategy to restrict gender-affirming care nationally, while skirting state laws.
August 1, 2025
Fertility Clinic Serving Trans People to Open Next Year in Pittsburgh
The clinic will help an underserved population and offer care at a lower cost than that of other providers, its founders say.
September 12, 2023