Supreme Court rules in Planned Parenthood Medicaid case
The case challenged South Carolina’s attempt to exclude Planned Parenthood clinics from its state Medicaid program.
June 26, 2025
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Iowa Medicaid Program Must Cover Gender-Affirming Care, Judge Rules
Two trans Iowans had sued over the state's exclusion of such procedures.
November 24, 2021
West Virginians Sue Over State Ban on Gender-Affirming Health Coverage
West Virginia's Medicaid program and its state employee health plan both refuse to pay for gender-confirmation care.
November 12, 2020
Good News For Low-Income Trans Oregonians
Following in the footsteps of California, Vermont, and Washington, D.C., Oregon will begin offering transition-related care to transgender residents as part of the state's Medicaid program.
August 15, 2014
Florida Pushes Forward to Ban Gender-Affirming Care for Medicaid Users
The state is working on a proposed rule change to its Medicaid program that would bar trans people from having their gender-affirming care covered.
July 12, 2022
What Medicaid and SNAP cuts mean for LGBTQ+ people
Trump's "one big, beautiful" tax and spending law is poised to make drastic cuts to Medicaid and SNAP — programs on which many LGBTQ+ Americans rely.
July 16, 2025
Medicare, Medicaid agency demands info on gender-affirming care for trans youth
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services falsely claims such care is not evidence-based.
May 30, 2025
How SNAP cuts will disproportionately impact some LGBTQ+ people
About 15 percent of LGBTQ+ adults received SNAP benefits in the past year.
July 1, 2025
Here's what Pete Buttigieg had to say about Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' passing Congress
"It is up to us, the American people, to respond politically and say that it is unacceptable to harm the majority of Americans to make the very wealthiest a little better off,” Buttigieg said in an Instagram video.
July 3, 2025
Congressional Equality Caucus condemns Medicaid cuts, anti-trans provisions in budget bill
Republicans are advancing a "cruel reconciliation bill," Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano says.
May 14, 2025
House budget cuts could devastate LGBTQ+ people's health care: What you need to know
It would have terrible consequences for transgender Americans, impoverished LGBTQ+ people, and those living with HIV.
May 22, 2025
BREAKING: U.S. Senate parliamentarian blocks GOP’s plan to ban gender-affirming care under Medicaid
The nonpartisan arbiter of rules compliance rejected parts of the Republican so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.”
June 26, 2025
How Trump’s ‘one big beautiful’ tax bill could impact women, children and LGBTQ+ Americans
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said over the weekend that the Senate package is projected to add $3.3 trillion to the national deficit over the next decade.
July 1, 2025
West Virginia Medicaid Must Cover Trans Surgery, Judge Rules
Denial of the coverage "invidiously discriminates on the basis of sex and transgender status," a federal judge wrote.
August 3, 2022
Trump Budget Would Harm the Neediest LGBTQ Americans
The budget also flies in the face of his pledge to end the HIV epidemic by 2030.
March 16, 2019
Alaska Allows Medicaid to Cover Gender-Affirming Health Care
Following a lawsuit, the red state begrudgingly changes its policy.
July 23, 2021
Suit Challenges Florida Medicaid's Exclusion of Gender-Affirming Care
Failure to cover such care is unconstitutional, says a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
September 7, 2022
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein vetoes anti-trans, anti-DEI bills
The Democratic governor called the bills "mean-spirited."
July 8, 2025
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
Gender-affirming care funding ban out of budget bill, but it still will devastate LGBTQ+ people
Cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and more will harm the community.
July 1, 2025
Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ banning federally funded gender-affirming care for trans people
The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."
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May 22, 2025