• For transgender people in North Carolina, it's about more than bathrooms

    For transgender people in North Carolina, it's about more than bathrooms

    May 05, 2016 05:45 PM EST

    Editor’s Note: Last month, North Carolina’s state legislature passed HB2 -- a controversial bill that requires transgender people to use the bathroom correlated with the gender on their birth certificate. The law also excludes gay and transgender people from anti-discrimination protections. On May 4, the U.S. Justice ...

  • Court rules in favor of transgender student in bathroom case

    Court rules in favor of transgender student in bathroom case

    Apr 19, 2016 07:48 PM EST

    An appeals court ruled on Tuesday in favor of a transgender student who says that his school violated anti-discrimination laws by not allowing him to use the bathroom that matches his gender. Gavin Grimm, now a junior at Gloucester High School in Virginia, transitioned to male during his sophomore ...

  • Brief, face-to-face canvassing reduces transgender prejudice, study says

    Brief, face-to-face canvassing reduces transgender prejudice, study says

    Apr 07, 2016 10:39 PM EST

    A 10-minute, face-to-face conversation can reduce transphobia, according to researchers at Stanford University and the University of California Berkeley.

  • How the transgender community finds a voice through speech therapy

    How the transgender community finds a voice through speech therapy

    Mar 30, 2016 08:27 PM EST

    For Caroline Temmermand, who spent 2.5 years doing speech therapy at George Washington University’s transgender voice clinic, changing her voice was a question of personal comfort. “After [my family] found out I was transgender, and I started presenting as the person I am, I wanted them to feel ...

  • Disputed health law rule would broaden transgender rights

    Disputed health law rule would broaden transgender rights

    Mar 22, 2016 02:22 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — Big companies are pushing back against proposed federal rules they say would require their medical plans to cover gender transition and other services under the nondiscrimination mandate of President Barack Obama's health care law. Civil rights advocates representing transgender people say the regulation, now being finalized by the ...

  • Caitlyn Jenner's politics spark debate in transgender ranks

    Caitlyn Jenner's politics spark debate in transgender ranks

    Mar 11, 2016 08:06 PM EST

    ... executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, said she is grateful there are transgender Republicans and would like to see the issue of transgender rights addressed on a nonpartisan basis. She also said it is inevitable that the ranks of transgender Americans would grow more diverse. "Trans people ...

  • South Dakota governor vetoes transgender restroom bill

    South Dakota governor vetoes transgender restroom bill

    Mar 02, 2016 12:00 AM EST

    South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has vetoed a bill that would have restricted transgender students’ access to restrooms in public schools. Without the veto, South Dakota would have become the first state in the nation to require that transgender students only use school restrooms that correspond to their sex at ...

  • South Dakota considers legislating transgender access to restrooms

    South Dakota considers legislating transgender access to restrooms

    Mar 01, 2016 01:00 AM EST

    ... JUDY WOODRUFF: Now to a battle emerging in some states over schools and rights for transgender students. South Dakota's governor, Dennis Daugaard, must decide by tomorrow whether he will sign or veto a bill that would make his state the first in the country to restrict transgender students ...

  • The fight over transgender rights in school restrooms intensifies

    The fight over transgender rights in school restrooms intensifies

    Feb 22, 2016 09:49 PM EST

    ... brought successful sex discrimination claims under the 1964 Civil Rights Act and due process clause of the Constitution, according to Dru Levasseur, who directs the Transgender Rights Project at LGBT legal group Lambda Legal. "We know that transgender people are protected under federal law, and there seems to be some ...

  • South Dakota bill would restrict transgender students' access to restrooms

    South Dakota bill would restrict transgender students' access to restrooms

    Feb 17, 2016 09:15 PM EST

    UPDATED 3:14 p.m. EST Feb. 18 | South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced Wednesday that he would meet with transgender students and LGBT activists from the Center for Equality before making a decision to sign into law a bill that would restrict transgender students’ access to restrooms in public ...