Texas quietly restricts gender-affirming care for trans adults: 'Canary in the coalmine'
Texas Medicaid will no longer cover gender affirming care for transgender adults as of tomorrow.
February 29, 2024
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Senate OK's Defense Bill Without Anti-LGBTQ+ Provisions, Setting Up Fight With House
Fights are likely over individual appropriations bills as well.
July 28, 2023
Voters Oppose Anti-LGBTQ+, Anti-Abortion Amendments to Defense Bill: Poll
Those are the findings of a Data for Progress survey of likely voters.
July 25, 2023
Transgender Federal Employees Get Good News
Federal Employee Health Benefits insurers will no longer be forced to exclude transition-related healthcare, but not all advocates are pleased.
June 13, 2014
Nevada: State Health Insurers Cannot Discriminate Against Trans People
The Silver State becomes the 10th nationwide to knock down certain barriers to transition-related coverage, though not all trans citizens can rejoice just yet.
June 22, 2015
HHS Lifts Medicare Ban on Gender-Confirming Surgeries
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will begin offering transition-related healthcare coverage to transgender Medicare beneficiaries.
May 30, 2014
ACLU Takes Aim at Minn. Medicaid Ban on Trans Surgeries
Transgender surgeries are life-saving for people suffering from gender dysphoria. That's why the ACLU of Minnesota is fighting to lift the state's ban on the use of Medicaid funds for them.
December 18, 2015
Ron DeSantis Signs Four Bills Into Law Restricting LGBTQ+ Rights in Florida
The bills include an expansion of "don't say gay," a ban on gender-affirming care, restrictions on bathroom use, and restrictions on drag shows.
May 17, 2023
Trump's Religious Order Is a Joke, But His Health Care Bill Is a Threat
The president was grandstanding with right-wingers when he signed his toothless "religious freedom" order, but he could kill millions with Trumpcare.
May 11, 2017
Ken Paxton Sues to Let Doctors Turn Away Trans People
The Texas attorney general's latest anti-Obama lawsuit claims that trans-affirming health care violates the religious freedom of doctors.
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August 24, 2016
Trans healthcare, abortion, & more: These are the LGBTQ+ laws that took effect January 1
Here are the biggest pieces of legislation for bodily autonomy that are now in the law of the land.
January 9, 2024
What states are the most dangerous for LGBTQ+ people? Here are the worst 15
A lot of states are passing laws that target the LGBTQ+ community — but these 15 are the absolute worst.
March 4, 2025
Gender-Affirming Care Can't Be Denied by Employer, Federal Court Rules
"Discrimination on the basis of transgender status is discrimination on the basis of sex," the judge wrote in the case of a Georgia sheriff's deputy who sued.
June 3, 2022
Wisconsin Trans Workers Now Covered for Surgery
The Republican governor, recently voted out of office, tried to stop coverage for years.
January 1, 2019
Getting Covered While Trans: An Open Letter on Open Enrollment
Untangling the complications surrounding Obamacare and trans-specific exclusions.
December 9, 2015
Supporting Abortion Rights Is Part of My Pride Month
Fighting for abortion rights in the South as a lesbian requires a lot of perseverence.
June 30, 2017
These 10 states are voting on abortion in November — is yours one?
Constitutional amendments to protect abortion will be brought to vote in November in 10 states.
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April 7, 2024
More Good News for Trans New Yorkers
New York becomes the 9th jurisdiction to ban health insurers from denying transgender patients coverage for medically necessary healthcare.
December 11, 2014
HHS Orders Insurers to Cover All Married Same-Sex Couples
If insurance companies provide family benefits to married opposite-sex couples, they must offer the same benefits to legally married same-sex couples, the Department of Health and Human Services said today.
March 14, 2014
What states are the best for LGBTQ+ people? These are the top 15
Based on laws surrounding marriage, family rights, health care, and education, here are the 15 best states for LGBTQ+ people.
March 4, 2025
HHS Expected to Lift Medicare Ban on Gender-Confirming Surgeries
Medicare's 33-year-old ban on transition-related surgery for transgender Americans may soon be coming to an end.
May 8, 2014