• Transgender athletes banned from track and field competitions, rules tightened for Semenya

    Transgender athletes banned from track and field competitions, rules tightened for Semenya

    Mar 23, 2023 09:01 PM EDT

    Track and field banned transgender athletes from international competition Thursday while adopting new regulations that could keep Caster Semenya and other athletes with differences in sex development from competing. In a pair of decisions expected to stoke outrage, the World Athletics Council adopted the same rules as swimming did last ...

  • Georgia bans most transgender care for kids under 18

    Georgia bans most transgender care for kids under 18

    Mar 23, 2023 08:46 PM EDT

    ... transgender children and require physicians to violate medical standards of care. They also accused Republicans of abandoning previous advocacy of parents' rights to make choices. Transgender youth and parents heavily lobbied against the bill in recent weeks, warning lawmakers were further marginalizing a group already prone to taking their own ...

  • New Arkansas law restricts school bathroom use by transgender people

    New Arkansas law restricts school bathroom use by transgender people

    Mar 22, 2023 05:01 PM EDT

    ... restroom or changing room of the opposite sex when a minor is present. "It's a flagrant message from them that they refuse to respect (transgender people's) rights and humanity, to respect Arkansans' rights and humanity," said Holly Dickson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas ...

  • Missouri Senate endorses transgender health restrictions, sports ban

    Missouri Senate endorses transgender health restrictions, sports ban

    Mar 21, 2023 10:58 PM EDT

    ... 36. Republicans initially proposed a 30-year window for lawsuits. Although they are now due to expire in four years, the limits on competing for transgender athletes are more restrictive than Republican Sen. Holly Rehder’s original plan. Initially, she proposed limits for only K-12 public school students. The ...

  • Minnesota governor says his state is national model for transgender rights

    Minnesota governor says his state is national model for transgender rights

    Mar 16, 2023 10:25 PM EDT

    With the 2022 election, Democrats in Minnesota took control of both chambers of the state's legislature for the first time in nine years. Gov. Tim Walz joined the state's House and Senate leadership in pushing reforms like voting rights for felons and driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants. The reform latest safeguards the rights of trans...

  • 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 EDT

    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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    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 EDT

    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 ...