• 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 ...

  • Missouri inmate may be 1st openly transgender woman executed in U.S.

    Missouri inmate may be 1st openly transgender woman executed in U.S.

    Jan 02, 2023 04:53 PM EST

    ... prohibited hormone therapy for inmates who weren't receiving it before being incarcerated. She won the lawsuit in 2018 and became a mentor to other transgender inmates, including McLaughlin. Though imprisoned together for around a decade, Hicklin said McLaughlin was so shy they rarely interacted. But as McLaughlin began transitioning ...

  • State-level anti-transgender legislation reverberates on Day of Remembrance

    State-level anti-transgender legislation reverberates on Day of Remembrance

    Nov 20, 2022 04:20 PM EST

    Among the motions lawmakers introduced last session but didn't pass was a bill limiting medical treatments for transgender people under 21, and another restricting the ability of transgender women and girls to compete in school sports. Mitchell County Republican Sen. Ralph Hise, sponsor of the former, did not respond ...

  • Report says at least 32 transgender people were killed in the U.S. in 2022

    Report says at least 32 transgender people were killed in the U.S. in 2022

    Nov 16, 2022 09:18 PM EST

    ... and transgender people as a risk to children and communities. States have enacted 25 anti-LGBTQ bills so far this year, including 17 directed at transgender people, according to the report. More than 145 anti-transgender bills have been introduced across 34 states, marking the largest number recorded by the ...