• West Virginia GOP Legislature passes ban on transgender health care for minors

    West Virginia GOP Legislature passes ban on transgender health care for minors

    Mar 12, 2023 03:58 PM EST

    A bill that would ban evidence-based health care for transgender minors in West Virginia, the state estimated to have more transgender youth per capita than any other in the nation, is headed to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice.

  • Anxiety, fear fill West Virginia transgender health care clinic

    Anxiety, fear fill West Virginia transgender health care clinic

    Mar 09, 2023 11:58 PM EST

    ... tell young people and families that we can’t provide the care that they need.” This week, providers saw a 12-year-old patient, a transgender girl whose relatives said they'd known her identity since she was 3. She expressed distress about her voice deepening or growing hair on ...

  • Parents concerned as new state laws restrict rights of transgender children

    Parents concerned as new state laws restrict rights of transgender children

    Mar 01, 2023 11:45 PM EST

    ... That decision should be left later in adult life. William Brangham: Erin Reed, what do you make of that argument? Erin Reed: The idea that transgender youth are being treated abusively by their parents, I think, is -- stands in stark reality to some of the clips that you had played ...

  • West Virginia transgender athlete ban halted during federal appeal

    West Virginia transgender athlete ban halted during federal appeal

    Feb 22, 2023 09:33 PM EST

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Transgender athletes in West Virginia can compete in female school sports while an appeal is heard on a state law banning their participation, a divided federal appeals panel ruled Wednesday. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to reinstate a preliminary injunction ...

  • Spain parliament approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and transgender protections

    Spain parliament approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and transgender protections

    Feb 16, 2023 07:34 PM EST

    MADRID (AP) — The Spanish parliament on Thursday approved legislation expanding abortion and transgender rights for teenagers, while making Spain the first country in Europe that will entitle workers to paid menstrual leave. The driving force behind the two laws was Equality Minister Irene Montero, who belongs to the junior member ...

  • Kansas push to define sex decried as erasing transgender people

    Kansas push to define sex decried as erasing transgender people

    Feb 16, 2023 01:22 AM EST

    In North Dakota, Republican state Rep. SuAnn Olson decried what she called “radical gender ideologues” and said they want to redefine womanhood as a subjective state. In Kansas, conservative activist and Statehouse lobbyist Phillip Cosby called young people's increased identity as transgender or nonbinary “a social contagion.” Dr. Kristyn ...

  • Hong Kong transgender men win appeal over ID status change

    Hong Kong transgender men win appeal over ID status change

    Feb 06, 2023 10:50 PM EST

    HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s top court ruled Monday that full sex reassignment surgery should not be a prerequisite for transgender people to have their gender changed on their official identity cards, in a move that is likely to have a far-reaching impact on the transgender community. A ...

  • Republican states aim to restrict transgender health care in first bills of 2023

    Republican states aim to restrict transgender health care in first bills of 2023

    Jan 07, 2023 07:36 PM EST

    Meanwhile, Democrats in some states are taking a more aggressive approach to transgender health protections. A new California law, effective as of Jan. 1, shields families of transgender youth from criminal prosecution if they travel to California for gender-affirming health procedures, such as surgeries or hormone therapy, from states ...

  • Transgender inmate executed in Missouri

    Transgender inmate executed in Missouri

    Jan 04, 2023 01:53 AM EST

    ... said. “If you ever talked to her, it was always with the dad jokes.” The Bureau of Justice Statistics has estimated there are 3,200 transgender inmates in the nation’s prisons and jails. Perhaps the best-known case of a transgender prisoner seeking treatment was that of Chelsea Manning ...

  • Missouri governor refuses clemency to 1st openly transgender woman to be executed in U.S.

    Missouri governor refuses clemency to 1st openly transgender woman to be executed in U.S.

    Jan 03, 2023 06:15 PM EST

    ... said. "If you ever talked to her, it was always with the dad jokes.” The Bureau of Justice Statistics has estimated there are 3,200 transgender inmates in the nation’s prisons and jails. Perhaps the best-known case of a transgender prisoner seeking hormone therapy was that of Chelsea ...