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Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, which works to advance LGBTQ equality in the House, on Tuesday slammed...
States receiving federal funding for foster care and adoption assistance programs would be required to prohibit certain surgeries for foster children...
Kentucky's Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear on Thursday said he does not support using taxpayer dollars for gender-affirming surgery for transgender...
Military veterans, families and active-duty service members with transgender children say a provision added to Congress’s annual defense policy bill...
Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.), the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, is requesting Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) strike a provision from...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in a case involving a group of Wisconsin parents who sued their children’s school district over a...
Six Republican senators in a letter to National Institutes of Health Director Monica Bertagnolli said they are “concerned about the transparency”...
Transgender rights activists including Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. army intelligence analyst and whistleblower, took to Capitol Hill on Thursday in...
Montana state lawmakers rejected a proposal to bar Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr, the state’s first transgender legislator, from using the women’s...
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors, a landmark...
Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation Wednesday barring transgender students from using school restrooms and locker rooms that match...
A federal judge ruled Monday that a transgender volleyball player at San José State University can continue to compete on the women’s team. The...
A Missouri court on Monday upheld a state law banning gender-affirming health care for minors and prohibiting Medicaid from covering...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has expressed opposition to gender-affirming health care for transgender minors and questioned evidence linking HIV to AIDS,...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday denounced efforts by House Republicans to bar transgender people from restrooms in the Capitol...
Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), set to be the nation’s first openly transgender member of Congress when she takes office in January, said she...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) plans to file legislation that would prohibit trans women from using women’s restrooms and changing rooms in all federal...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Monday introduced a bill to bar transgender women from facilities on Capitol Hill that match their gender identity. The...
Democrats are wrestling with the role the party’s broad support for transgender rights played in its failure to capture the presidency and either...
An Indiana law banning gender-affirming care for minors will remain in effect, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. A three-judge panel on the...
Ohio’s Republican-controlled Senate approved legislation Wednesday to bar transgender students from using school restrooms and locker rooms that...
Texas lawmakers, during the state’s upcoming legislative session, will have the opportunity to formally decriminalize gay sex, still technically a...
A top aide to Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton (Mass.) resigned after comments Moulton made about transgender athletes were panned by state Democrats and...
Two House Democrats said they oppose transgender athletes competing in women’s sports in the immediate aftermath of former President Trump’s...
LGBTQ voters shifted away from President-elect Trump at the polls, casting their ballots overwhelmingly for Vice President Harris and in higher...
Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr (D) won reelection Tuesday, assuring her return to the state capitol in January nearly two years after her Republican...
Democrat Emily Randall was projected to win her bid for Washington’s 6th Congressional District Tuesday, making history as the first woman and...
Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride (D) was projected to win her election Tuesday for Delaware's at-large House district, making history as the first...
Julie Johnson was projected to win her election Tuesday for Texas’s 32nd Congressional District, making history as the first openly LGBTQ person to...
Sofia Nelson, a former friend of Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) from Yale Law School, on Thursday called the vice presidential nominee’s suggestion that...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing a second doctor of violating a state law banning gender-affirming care for...
Former President Trump and Republican congressional candidates have blanketed the nation with campaign ads critical of transgender rights, painting...
Vice President Harris has struggled to combat former President Trump’s anti-transgender attacks, which are a major part of the former president’s...
An Oregon school district on Thursday asked Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) campaign to take down two ads targeting transgender athletes because they...
New polling from a left-leaning firm shows a majority of voters see a recent wave of campaign ads targeting transgender student-athletes and...
A South Carolina man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the murder of a Black transgender woman. In February, a jury convicted Daqua...
Former President Trump on Tuesday signaled he would ban transgender athletes from competing on sports teams that match their gender identity though an...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Harris's running mate, is campaigning Tuesday evening in Pittsburgh, as the White House race enters its final...
The Advocate, the nation’s oldest and largest LGBTQ-focused publication, on Tuesday endorsed Vice President Harris for president. “Harris, the...
New Hampshire Republican congressional candidate Russell Prescott has long advocated against marriage rights for same-sex couples and once criticized...
Caroline Rose Giuliani, the daughter of Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and attorney to former President Trump, is sounding alarm bells...
A Virginia school board has agreed to pay a former high school teacher more than $500,000 in damages and attorneys' fees as part of a legal settlement...
More than 160 House Democrats on Friday called for provisions related to LGBTQ service members and their dependents to be removed from Congress’s...
State-level laws restricting or threatening transgender rights can have significant adverse effects on trans and nonbinary young people's mental...
Hate crimes motivated by anti-LGBTQ animus rose again last year, according to FBI data published Monday, a troubling increase that gay and transgender...
Jordan Dashow, the executive director of the Congressional Equality Caucus, is something of a jack of all trades. “I like to think my job is to make...
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) took executive action Wednesday to ban conversion therapy for minors in the state, skirting the state’s Legislature,...
The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to tennis legend and equal rights advocate Billie Jean King, bestowing the...
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the twelfth openly LGBTQ person to the federal bench since President Biden took office, the most of any presidential...
Vice President Harris leads former President Trump among LGBTQ voters by a wide margin, with more than 70 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual,...