Transgender rights

Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a Dallas doctor Thursday for allegedly providing transition-related care to nearly two dozen minors in violation of state law.

A Vermont Christian school that is barred from participating in the state sports league after it withdrew its girls basketball team from a playoff game because a transgender student was playing on the opposing team has taken its case to a federal appeals court.

The Texas DPS will no longer allow transgender residents to change the sex on their driver’s license to align with their gender identity.

The New York attorney general and the New York Civil Liberties Union on Monday sued a county on Long Island over its latest move to ban transgender females from playing on women’s sports teams at county facilities.

Lawmakers in a Long Island county passed a bill that bans all transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports at county-run facilities.

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, a former University of Pennsylvania student, has failed in her challenge against World Aquatics rules that stop her from competing in elite women’s races.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman had maintained the ban was meant to protect girls and women from getting injured if they are forced to compete against transgender women.

The New York Civil Liberties Union said it’s “gratified” that the court has struck down what it calls, “a harmful policy that belongs in the dustbin of history.”

Before his transgender daughter was suspended after using the girls’ bathroom at her Missouri high school, Dusty Farr was someone else. Now, he has found himself in the unlikely role of fighting bathroom bans in the state.

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has announced a policy that all but bans transgender athletes from women’s sports.

The “Harry Potter” author slammed a newly enacted hate-crime law in Scotland in a series of posts on X in which she referred to transgender women as men.

The Sacramento City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to declare the California capital a “sanctuary city for transgender people.”

An Oklahoma district attorney said Thursday he doesn’t plan to file any charges in the case of Nex Benedict, the nonbinary 16-year-old Owasso teenager whose death following a fight in a high school bathroom was ruled a suicide.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is trying to drum up support for his ban on transgender athletes from competing against girls at county-facilities. The Republican leader stood side by side with Caitlyn Jenner, an Olympic gold medalist and transgender athlete, who supports the restrictions on transgender athletes. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner on Monday said she supported a local New York official’s order banning female sports teams with transgender athletes from using county-owned facilities.

Republican legislators are close to banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors in Kansas over the Democratic governor’s expected veto.

The death of Oklahoma student Nex Benedict has been ruled a suicide, according to a medical examiner’s report released Wednesday. 

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is standing by his county’s ban on transgender girls and women athletes at county-run facilities. His defense of the order comes even after the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of a women’s roller derby team. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

A Long Island roller derby team is the first to challenge a Nassau County executive order that prohibits transgender women from competing in women’s sports at over 100 different county owned venues.