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“As a parent, it is heartbreaking to see my right to make healthcare decisions for my child taken away by political bullies, and the hurt and harm that has caused my child,” one parent of a trans youth said in a new legal brief.
A federal appeals court today upheld a judge's 2012 ruling that transgender inmates should have access to transition-related care while they are incarcerated.
Voters must choose lawmakers who will work to protect their privacy, private health decisions, and decisions personally affecting them and their families.
An NBC News report claimed it would be ‘potentially opening the door for gay couples’
The taoiseach hails Ireland's "quiet revolution" after Ireland overwhelmingly votes to end its ban.
They hope that people are more afraid of transgender folks than a future under GOP control.
The Human Rights Campaign led an effort to get the White House to clear up its previous statement opposing some treatment options for transgender Americans.
The temporary restraining order is short-lived, but advocates are pushing to have the ban struck down permanently.
Trans children only want to be their authentic selves, and this action will have severe repercussions, John Casey writes.
In overturning a decision that medically necessary gender-confirmation surgery should be provided to a transgender inmate, advocates worry the court has created a harmful precedent.
Republican senators killed a bill Tuesday that would have protected IVF.
A lower court had ruled that the law should be permanently blocked, but this decision reverses that.
Parents of trans youth share their experiences and advocate for acceptance and support.
The decision comes just as the Department of Health and Human Services is deciding whether to implement the Affordable Care Act’s endorsement of trans-affirming healthcare for private insurers.
Except for gay conservative groups, advocates see the decision as a victory for the president and LGBT Americans who disproportionately face barriers to accessing health care.
The judge partially stopped the law from being enforced.
The lawmakers wrote an amicus brief in support of families of transgender youth.
“Only eight days into his second term, President Donald Trump has blood on his hands,” executive director of Advocates for Trans Equality Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen said earlier this week.
U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Lois Frankel talk to The Advocate about the damage Republican policies are causing in their state.
Another court stands in the way of Republican attacks on transgender people.
