As the Trump administration seeks exhaustive and unprecedented access to transgender youth medical records, families are taking to court to fight back.
Families in New York and California recently sued to block major hospital systems from complying with federal criminal subpoenas ordering the release of medical information around gender-affirming care for trans minors. Two separate lawsuits…
Despite negative headlines across far-right media, a 17-year-old California girl walked away a state champion, with two gold medals around her neck.
Just days after graduating high school in Jarupa out transgender teen AB Hernandez won the girls' high jump and triple jump in the CIF track and field state championships. Saturday’s wins at the Clovis meet marked her second consecutive year…
On a rehearsal night in 1981, a group of singers in Washington, D.C., gathered to do something that sounds simple now, but was anything but simple then — they stood together and sang, publicly and proudly, as gay men.
Some of their names could appear in a concert program. Some could not. Being associated publicly with a gay organization in the nation’s capital carried real risk. In a time…
A Kansas judge temporarily blocked the state from enforcing a ban on gender-affirming care for youth, ruling that a legal challenge arguing the law violates parental rights is likely to succeed.
Douglas County District Judge Carl Folsom issued an injunction on the law, saying a lawsuit challenging the statute under the Kansas Constitution has a strong likelihood of prevailing, according to…
Maine’s Secretary of State announced that a trans sports ban will not appear on the ballot this year after questions about signature gathering resulted in thousands of petitions being tossed out.
“Citizen initiatives are direct democracy. Just as we take voting security seriously, we take petition integrity seriously,” said Secretary of State Shenna Bellows.
“Unfortunately, some…
LGBTQ+ advocates in Wisconsin are calling on two major hospitals to resume gender-affirming care for youth, arguing that providers are now protected by a federal court ruling blocking the Trump administration’s policy.
On Thursday, more than 65 Wisconsin organizations published an open letter to both the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Children’s Wisconsin, which suspended the services…
Federal attorneys are demanding that a transgender health program in New York City turn over sensitive records concerning youth patients, including medical assessments, intake forms, insurance claims, and “documents sufficient to identify each patient,” according to a subpoena made public this week.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas subpoenaed NYU Langone Health…
Colorado attorneys defended transgender students’ right to receive the same treatment as their peers during overnight school trips as a federal appeals court weighed a challenge to a school district policy allowing students to room according to gender identity.
On Tuesday, a three-judge panel on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a lawsuit backed by the conservative…
The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Texas has issued a subpoena for the medical records of trans youth who received gender-affirming care from NYU Langone Health, a New York-based hospital system, since 2020.
NYU Langone notified patients of the grand jury subpoena on Monday and said it was one of several health institutions to receive it. Under the New York State Shield…
For years, anti-transgender activists have claimed that the vast majority of children and young adults who come out as trans, nonbinary, or otherwise gender-nonconforming are simply going through a phase. That argument holds that many will eventually reject their gender identity and return to living as the sex they were assigned at birth. Scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University now say…
Many hospitals that cut off youth from gender-affirming care over concerns around the Trump administration are remaining silent on whether they will resume care, despite a federal court giving their programs legal clearance.
Last December, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, directed hospitals across the country to…
U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley says Congress just hasn’t done enough to hurt trans youth’s access to healthcare. Missouri’s senior U.S. Senator wants a ban on any taxpayer funding for “trans-treatment,” even though his colleagues in the Senate have already rejected such a prohibition.
He sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson calling for the Republican House to amend a budget resolution with…
A new Colorado law will seal name-change records for minors, protecting the privacy of transgender youth who change their names.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, signed Senate Bill 18 into law on Monday. In Colorado, residents must petition a court to officially change their names. Under the new law, which takes effect July 1, courts are required to keep those requests private for…
The FBI sent a government plane to Cuba to prevent a transgender parent from providing her child with gender-affirming care.
According to court filings first reported by __The__ _New York Times_ , federal authorities took the unusual step as part of an international parental kidnapping investigation stemming from a custody dispute. The FBI believes Rose Inessa-Ethington, a transgender woman,…
The U.S. Supreme Court has left in place a lower court decision granting schools discretion over whether they disclose to parents the name and pronouns a student uses.
A circuit court in Massachusetts previously ruled that teachers and school staff were not required to provide parents with the information, but parents Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri appealed the decision, arguing that…
_This story was originally reported by Orion Rummler of The 19th. Meet Orion and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy._
Larissa Godfrey-Smith, a therapist living and working in Washington, D.C., recently spent 12 hours in a jail cell with five other people. There was no running water, since the sink wasn’t working. There was one toilet. They were fed once: a baloney…
A Virginia school board settled a legal dispute last week with two students who sued after they were suspended for their treatment of a trans classmate.
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In March 2025, the Loudoun County School Board suspended three boys for filming a transgender student using the male locker…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is running for a seat in the U.S. Senate, says mental health professionals in the state can’t treat trans youth.
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The day before the March 3 Republican primary, in which he faced incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Wesley Hunt, with…