LGBTQ

Supreme Court will hear Colorado case about state bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children

By Mark Sherman, Associated Press

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether state and local governments can enforce laws banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children, in a Colorado case.

Judge extends block on Trump’s plan to pull funding over health care for transgender youth

By Gene Johnson, Associated Press

President Donald Trump’s plan to pull federal funding from institutions that provide gender-affirming care for transgender youth will remain blocked on a long-term basis under a federal judge's ruling in Seattle late Friday.

NCAA limits women’s competition to athletes assigned female at birth

By Eric Olson, Associated Press

The move came one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to ban transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports.

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

By Will Graves, Associated Press

The timing of the order coincided with National Girls and Women in Sports Day, and is the latest in a string of executive actions from the Republican president aimed at transgender people.

6 ways Trump’s executive orders are targeting transgender people

By Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press

President Donald Trump has targeted transgender and nonbinary people with a series of executive orders since he returned to office. Here's what to know about Trump's actions and who they affect.

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

By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press

The Pentagon has said in recent years that it is impossible to count the total number of transgender troops.

Fewer than 0.1 percent of U.S. adolescents receive gender-affirming medications, report finds

By Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press

From 2018 through 2022, only 926 adolescents with a gender-related diagnosis received puberty blockers and 1,927 received hormones, suggesting that fewer than 0.1 percent of all youth in the database received these medications.

Russian man arrested for allegedly running gay travel agency dies in custody

By Associated Press

Just over a year ago, Russia’s Supreme Court effectively outlawed any LGBTQ+ activism in a ruling that designated “the international LGBT movement” as extremist.

Attorneys see surge of LGBTQ+ parents seeking to adopt their children before new Trump term

By Chabeli Carrazana, The 19th

Project 2025, the 920-page document that lays out priorities for a second Trump term, envisions a federal government that uplifts families made up of a married mother and father, while undermining LGBTQ+ parents.

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

In arguments that passed the two-hour mark Wednesday, five conservative justices voiced varying degrees of skepticism of arguments made by the Biden administration and lawyers for Tennessee families challenging the ban.