• WATCH: Trump signs order aimed at banning transgender athletes from competing in women's sports

    WATCH: Trump signs order aimed at banning transgender athletes from competing in women's sports

    Feb 05, 2025 10:51 PM EDT

    ... gender other than the one assigned at birth. That has implications for areas including passports and prisons. He’s also opened the door to barring transgender service members from the military; called to end federal health insurance and other funding for gender-affirming care for transgender people under age 19 ...

  • 6 ways Trump's executive orders are targeting transgender people

    6 ways Trump's executive orders are targeting transgender people

    Feb 01, 2025 09:01 PM EDT

    Trump called for halting the use of federal money to support gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth under 19 years old. The care in question includes puberty blocking drugs, hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery, which is rare for minors. WATCH: Study finds gender-affirming medical care for minors ...

  • Health info wiped from federal websites following Trump order targeting transgender rights

    Health info wiped from federal websites following Trump order targeting transgender rights

    Jan 31, 2025 11:38 PM EDT

    A Bureau of Prisons web page originally titled “Inmate Gender” was relabeled “Inmate Sex” on Friday. A breakdown of transgender inmates in federal prisons was no longer included. The State Department on Friday removed the option to select “X” as a gender on passport applications for nonbinary applicants. It also ...

  • Trump aims to push transgender troops out of the military. Identifying people will be complicated

    Trump aims to push transgender troops out of the military. Identifying people will be complicated

    Jan 31, 2025 04:02 PM EDT

    ... discipline problems. His only concern, he told a Senate committee, was that some commanders were saying they had to spend “a lot of time” with transgender people as they worked through medical requirements involving their transition to their preferred gender. Sarah Klimm, a transgender Marine who served for 23 years ...

  • 6 active duty service members file first lawsuit challenging Trump's ban on transgender troops

    6 active duty service members file first lawsuit challenging Trump's ban on transgender troops

    Jan 28, 2025 06:43 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Six transgender active duty service members and two former service members who seek re-enlistment on Tuesday filed the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order that calls for revising policy on transgender troops and probably sets the stage for banning them in the armed forces ...

  • Supreme Court rejects challenge from Wisconsin parents on school guidance for transgender students

    Supreme Court rejects challenge from Wisconsin parents on school guidance for transgender students

    Dec 09, 2024 10:53 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Wisconsin parents who wanted to challenge a school district's guidance for supporting transgender students. The justices, acting in a case from Eau Claire, left in place an appellate ruling dismissing the parents' lawsuit. Three justices, Samuel Alito, Brett ...

  • Transgender lawmaker Leigh Finke on the political backlash surrounding trans rights

    Transgender lawmaker Leigh Finke on the political backlash surrounding trans rights

    Dec 06, 2024 11:35 PM EDT

    Two years ago, Leigh Finke became the first trans person elected to the Minnesota state legislature. Even though she endured numerous threats, she leveraged her position, and a Democratic majority, to help pass legislation protecting other trans people in her state. Finke joined William Brangham to discuss the triumphs and the vitriol surrounding transgender rights...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court considers Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

    LISTEN: Supreme Court considers Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

    Dec 04, 2024 03:01 PM EDT

    The state acknowledges that the same treatments that are banned for transgender minors can be prescribed for other reasons. But it rejects the claim that it is discriminating on the basis of sex. Instead, it says lawmakers acted to protect minors from the risks of “life-altering gender-transition procedures ...

  • Medical care for transgender minors at stake in Supreme Court case

    Medical care for transgender minors at stake in Supreme Court case

    Dec 02, 2024 07:22 PM EDT

    Gender-affirming surgery in transgender teens is far less common than hormone treatment. When it is done among transgender youth, it’s almost always breast reduction surgery in older transgender males. Even so, that type of surgery is extremely rare. Perhaps surprisingly, breast reduction among minors is most frequently performed ...

  • Ohio Gov. DeWine signs bill restricting transgender students' use of bathrooms

    Ohio Gov. DeWine signs bill restricting transgender students' use of bathrooms

    Nov 27, 2024 05:18 PM EDT

    ... LGBTQ+ Ohioans that will make them less safe. Equality Ohio, the state's LGBTQ+ advocacy and legal aid organization, said the law poses risks to transgender youth “or anyone perceived as transgender by authorities.” “We are deeply disappointed that Governor DeWine has allowed this dangerous bill to become law that ...