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“As a parent, it is heartbreaking to see my right to make healthcare decisions for my child taken away by political bullies, and the hurt and harm that has caused my child,” one parent of a trans youth said in a new legal brief.
The Human Rights Campaign led an effort to get the White House to clear up its previous statement opposing some treatment options for transgender Americans.
The decision comes just as the Department of Health and Human Services is deciding whether to implement the Affordable Care Act’s endorsement of trans-affirming healthcare for private insurers.
Except for gay conservative groups, advocates see the decision as a victory for the president and LGBT Americans who disproportionately face barriers to accessing health care.
A federal appeals court today upheld a judge's 2012 ruling that transgender inmates should have access to transition-related care while they are incarcerated.
The temporary restraining order is short-lived, but advocates are pushing to have the ban struck down permanently.
The judge partially stopped the law from being enforced.
Voters must choose lawmakers who will work to protect their privacy, private health decisions, and decisions personally affecting them and their families.
The lawmakers wrote an amicus brief in support of families of transgender youth.
In overturning a decision that medically necessary gender-confirmation surgery should be provided to a transgender inmate, advocates worry the court has created a harmful precedent.
An NBC News report claimed it would be ‘potentially opening the door for gay couples’
U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Lois Frankel talk to The Advocate about the damage Republican policies are causing in their state.
The taoiseach hails Ireland's "quiet revolution" after Ireland overwhelmingly votes to end its ban.
Republican senators killed a bill Tuesday that would have protected IVF.
Another court stands in the way of Republican attacks on transgender people.
A lower court had ruled that the law should be permanently blocked, but this decision reverses that.
They hope that people are more afraid of transgender folks than a future under GOP control.
Democrats are reminding Americans that Republicans and the conservative U.S. Supreme Court stripped them of their previously held rights to reproductive access. Now other bodily autonomy rights could be next.
At least two thousand protestors filled the streets of Washington, D.C., on Saturday for the Gender Liberation March. See the moving images here.
Preventive screenings and treatments should be based on body parts, not gender identity, say trans advocates -- and the federal government agrees.
