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Gender-affirming care is banned for transgender youth when it's mainly cisgender people who use it, and when it has a significantly lower regret rate than all other major surgeries, tattoos, and children.
Planned Parenthood of New York City has a new anti-rape campaign partially produced by youth themselves.
The parents who sued in Maryland haven't shown that their children are being harmed by the policy, a judge wrote.
A judge has already temporarily blocked the ban on gender-affirming care for minors, and now trans adults are seeking to block restrictions affecting them.
A proposal to ban the procedure among infants is prompting a familiar battle cry.
The world's most popular YouTuber took to Twitter to speak out against transphobia.
Minors in Nebraska will be able to access gender-affirming care, but only after attending 40 hours of therapy that could push back on their identity.
"The judgment upholds established legal principles which respect the ability of our clinicians to engage actively and thoughtfully with our patients in decisions about their care and futures."
The law, which went into effect July 1, prevents minors from getting any type of health care without parental consent.
A quiet update to the company's prohibition on releasing people's private information without their permission appears to complicate things for the account that constantly targets people.
The American Psychological Association is embarking on its first review of a 10-year-old policy on counseling gays and lesbians, a step that gay rights activists hope will end with a denunciation of any attempt by therapists to change a client's sexual orientation.
The regulation affects both transgender adults and youth.
The resolution denounces medically unnecessary surgeries and other forms of mistreatment.
"Medical intervention for trans people, like all others, should be undertaken based on individual informed consent," writes Kyle Knight, co-interim director of Human Rights Watch's LGBT Rights Program.
More than 30 states have laws barring doctors from heeding a call by U.S. health officials to routinely test Americans for the AIDS virus, researchers report. And states don't seem to be in any rush to change that.
Allegations made by a former employee whose dubious claims were previously disputed by patients and families have been found to be unsubstantiated.
In audio released Friday evening, senators and representatives from Ohio and Michigan revealed the "endgame" is to ban transgender care "for everyone."
The report comes from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, headed by Adm. Rachel Levine.
Groups that work to end female genital mutilation and cutting worry about an executive order that co-opts the policies they’ve worked to pass over nearly 30 years.
