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After a decade and more than 16 tries, state lawmakers will send to the governor's desk an anti-trans bill, which restricts access to public facilities and places a $25,000 fine on the first violation.
A class action lawsuit representing nearly 300 incarcerated people says the state's refusal to allow gender-affirming care constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
It’s a big victory for trans rights.
Arely Westley, this year's recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, tells The Advocate about this "crucial moment" in time for queer and immigrant communities.
Transgender inmates in Pennsylvania will no longer be sent to solitary confinement based upon gender identity alone, and will be allowed to shower privately.
A Ministry of Justice report released Thursday said there are at least 119 trans women being held in men's prisons in the two U.K. countries.
The famous "Birdman" and many others imprisoned on the island were queer.
Gay and bi black men face both high rates of HIV and incarceration as well as a prison system that denies them lifesaving condoms.
Few stories have helped inspire advocacy on behalf of incarcerated trans women more than that of 37-year-old Ashley Diamond. Today her attorneys announced a historic settlement in her federal lawsuit.
Love won out on anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville, Va. Unite the Right rally when thousands showed up in D.C. to drown out the haters.
The trans man incarcerated in an all-women's Georgia prison has finally been granted access to transition-related care.
The Fighters: With a conviction that changed her life, CeCe McDonald found herself amid the struggles transgender women face in America's already unbalanced judicial system.
Air America radio host and television commentator Rachel Maddow will have her own show on MSNBC starting September 8. Her show will air at 9 p.m. following Countdown With Keith Olbermann. Olbermann broke the news Tuesday on the liberal news website Daily Kos. Dan Abrams, who was hosting Verdict during that time slot, will act as NBC's chief legal correspondent and will be a daytime anchor for MSNBC, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. She may be the first openly gay woman to host a prime-time television show.
Human rights groups have decried the conditions in many of these Russian facilities. Here's what the out WNBA star may have faced.
"What would I ask them? I know what their perspective is," Murphy said.
With her win in Charleston County, Kristin Graziano becomes South Carolina's first woman and first out gay sheriff.
We're living in scary, divisive times. But we have much to be proud of, writes Roberta Sklar.
Even Rosie O'Donnell, who Cox was sitting in for, wants to see the transgender actress added to the show's hosting team permanently.
After allegedly being fired from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office for being a lesbian, McGuffey may have the last laugh.
