Tallahassee Mayor Nixes LGBTQ+ Advisory Council Meeting During Pride Month
The Democratic mayor has been slammed by local activists for canceling putting off the meeting.
June 8, 2023
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Oklahoma: Convicted Rapist Wants Trans Medical Care
An inmate currently serving in an Oklahoma prison wants the state to facilitate her transition costs.
February 19, 2013
Texas Families and Medical Providers Sue Over Trans Youth Medical Care Ban
The ban is supposed to go into effect on September 1.
July 13, 2023
Florida Subpoenas Medical Associations Over Trans Youth Care
It comes as the state's GOP-controlled legislature has passed a number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills this session.
April 25, 2023
Global Doctors Approve New Trans-Affirming Health Care Guidelines
The aim is to increase doctors’ knowledge and sensitivity towards transgender people and their unique health issues.
October 20, 2015
Texas AG Declares Trans Medical Care Child Abuse and Targets Parents
This follows the failure of a bill that would have led to parents supportive of trans children being jailed.
February 23, 2022
Democratic Politician Is Architect of South Carolina Anti-Trans Bill
Cezar McKnight's bill seeks to ban trans youth from receiving trans-related medical care.
March 18, 2021
Pentagon orders immediate stop to gender-affirming care for transgender troops
The Department of Defense will no longer provide medical care for trans service members.
May 12, 2025
Fox News Predictably Justifies Transphobia with Rachel Dolezal
Fox News's favorite medical 'expert' returns to explain how trans kids accessing medical care is the same as doctors pressuring him to tattoo his child.
June 16, 2015
Record Number of Anti-Trans Bills Introduced in States This Year
Most of them seek to keep trans girls and women off of female sports teams or prevent trans youth from receiving gender-affirming medical care.
March 12, 2021
More Than One-Third of Trans Kids Are at Risk of Losing Care
A new study shows that Republican-led efforts to ban access to gender-affirming medical care for youths will impact 58,200 trans kids.
March 22, 2022
SCOTUS trans care ruling opens harmful loophole to take access from all trans people, says Leah Litman
Former Supreme Court clerk and co-host of the Strict Scrutiny podcast, Leah Litman, told The Advocate that bans on trans youth’s medical care are only the beginning after the Skrmetti ruling.
June 25, 2025
Appreciate your sex—or else: The Supreme Court’s strange new commandment
Opinion: In a stunning Supreme Court ruling, Tennessee's law mandating minors embrace their birth sex has ignited fierce debate over bodily autonomy, revealing a troubling intersection of religious zealotry and state power in the fight for individual rights across America.
July 16, 2025
Why suffering shouldn't be a prerequisite for trans rights
Why must trans individuals endure anguish to be seen as worthy of respect and care, asks guest writer Julian Applebaum.
January 31, 2025
New York Drops Medicaid's Ban on Trans Health Care
The good news keeps coming for New York's trans citizens seeking healthcare related to gender transition, even as advocates say some work still needs to be done.
December 18, 2014
Families With Trans Kids Sue Over Oklahoma Ban on Gender-Affirming Care
The suit comes one day after Gov. Kevin Stitt signed the measure into law.
May 3, 2023
New Trump Medicaid directive attacks trans people's access to gender-affirming care
A new federal letter gives Republican-led states another road map to cut off gender-affirming care for minors.
April 11, 2025
Texas Investigates Parents of Trans Teen Under Abuse Law, ACLU Sues
"No family should have to fear being torn apart because they are supporting their trans child," said an ACLU of Texas representative.
March 1, 2022
Oregon First to Cover Trans Youth Under Medicaid
The new policy will take effect October 1, 2014.
January 23, 2013
Idaho Advances Bill to Criminalize Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
The bill, passed by the House and now going to the Senate, calls for a prison sentence of up to 10 years for health care workers who authorize or provide the care.
February 15, 2023
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