transgender

Gender-affirming care refers to an individualized health care model that prioritizes encouraging and supporting a person’s gender identity. 

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking state universities for the number and ages of their transgender students who sought the schools’ help with hormones or sex reassignment surgery, according to a survey released Wednesday. Why he’s conducting the survey isn’t completely clear. DeSantis has been criticized by LGTBQ advocates for policies seen as discriminatory. The survey is being sent...

Transgender children in Florida will be barred from receiving hormones or undergoing surgeries to treat gender dysphoria, under a rule approved by state medical officials at the urging of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Transgender people often have to vote with IDs that don’t represent who they are or not vote at all while they navigate the complicated process to update their IDs.

The Florida Board of Medicine voted to start drafting a rule that will ban puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries for trans youths under 18.

Nora J.S. Reichardt of WOI-TV said that for a long time she didn’t think she would be able to reveal her identity on air.

PolitiFact rated Gov. Ron DeSantis “mostly false” in describing medical procedures for young children. NBC 6’s Phil Prazan reports

Transgender girls in Utah will be given the opportunity to participate in female sports as the school year begins after a judge reversed a ban pending legal challenges from parents.

A Utah high school athletics association secretly investigated a female athlete — without telling her or her parents — after receiving complaints from other parents questioning whether the girl was transgender.

Some parents with LGBTQ+ students in a school district in southwest Florida are concerned officials are reportedly set to request personal information about transgender students. NBC affiliate WBBH-TV reports the Lee County School District drafted documents called the “Confidential Gender Support Plan,” which asks questions about a student’s gender and asks parents to come up with a plan if...

A federal judge in Tennessee has issued an order barring two U.S. agencies from enforcing new federal guidance extending enforcement of discrimination in schools and workplaces based on gender identity.

During a Senate judiciary hearing on abortion, law professor Khiara Bridges of UC Berkeley shut down questions from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, deemed “transphobic” and “[opening] up trans people to violence.”

“I’m finally ready to share my favorite self with the world,” Brown wrote in an emotional Instagram post.

Dozens of civil rights groups and medical institutions say gender-affirming care for trans people can save lives. Contrary to those groups, the state of Florida could move to restrict Medicaid dollars from being used toward gender-affirming care, with health officials and Gov. Ron DeSantis claiming the scientific evidence supporting trans health practices is “weak.” The move could bring the influence...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration Thursday asked the state board regulating doctors to essentially ban transition-related care for transgender minors, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. The state Health Department made the request hours after another state agency issued a 46-page report to justify banning Medicaid coverage for transgender people of any age who want puberty blockers, hormone therapies or gender-assignment...

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday allowed the state to resume investigations into parents of transgender youth for child abuse while also ruling in favor of one family investigated following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

Transgender medical treatment for children and teens is under attack in many states, but it has been available for more than a decade and is endorsed by major medical associations

American citizens are now able to select a new “X” gender marker on U.S. passport applications, even if it doesn’t match the gender on their birth certificate or other documents.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is refusing to say if he thinks transgender people actually exist.

The Biden administration says U.S. airport security procedures will become more gender-neutral.