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News Articles: Transgender

President Trump speaks before signing executive orders in the Oval Office on March 6.

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  • National

Trump suspends $175 million in funding to University of Pennsylvania over trans athletes

The University of Pennsylvania found itself at the center of the trans athlete debate when one of its trans students won a series of events during the 2022 swim season.

March 20, 2025
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By:
  • Alana Wise
The seal of the Department of Veterans Affairs is seen outside the agency's building in Washington, D.C. The VA says it will no longer offer medical treatment for gender dysphoria to veterans.

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  • Politics

The VA will deny gender dysphoria treatment to new patients

While the VA never offered gender-affirming surgery, it did offer treatments like hormone therapy. The agency says less than than 0.1% of the 9 million veterans it provides care for identify as trans.

March 17, 2025
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By:
  • Huo Jingnan
Sylvia Rivera leads an ACT-UP march past New York's Union Square Park in June 1994.

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  • Arts & Life

NPS takes down web pages dedicated to transgender activists and LGBTQ history

This is part of an ongoing move by the federal government to remove and alter National Park Service webpages related to LGBTQ history.

March 05, 2025
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
People celebrate outside a Seattle federal courthouse after a second federal judge paused President Trump's order against gender-affirming care for youth on Friday.

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  • Law

A 2nd U.S. judge pauses Trump's order against gender-affirming care for trans youth

A second federal judge paused President Trump's executive order halting federal support for gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 19.

February 15, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A National Park Service ranger places rainbow flags on the fence at the Stonewall National Monument in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan, New York City, on June 19, 2019.

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  • National

Park Service erases 'transgender' on Stonewall website, uses the term 'LGB' movement

The website deleted all mentions of "transgender" and "queer" in its history of the Stonewall riots, and only referred to the riots' impact on lesbian, gay and bisexual people.

February 14, 2025
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  • Juliana Kim
A sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 6, 2020.

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  • National

'We do not exist anymore': New prison rules ban female clothing for trans women

As federal lawsuits challenge President Trump's executive order impacting trans inmates, the Bureau of Prisons is starting to roll out new policies demanding trans women hand over female-identifying clothing and other items.

February 05, 2025
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Cross-sex hormones, including testosterone, are part of gender-affirming care that has been banned in half of states.

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  • Health

'A very, very small number' of teens receive gender-affirming care, study finds

A new analysis of private insurance claims data finds less than 0.1% of youth accessed puberty blockers or hormones for gender transition. This small group has garnered a huge amount of attention from Republican lawmakers in recent years.

January 06, 2025
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Senator Greg Dolezal

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  • News

State Senate committee lays groundwork for restricting transgender athletes

The state Senate committee considering the participation of transgender athletes in sports released its findings Friday. 

December 16, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis
 Toni-Michelle Williams speaks at a transgender passport event in Atlanta Nov. 20, 2024. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

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  • News

Hundreds of Georgians sign up for free passport at event sponsored by pro-transgender groups

A passport can be the key to the world, but to some transgender and nonbinary Georgians it can also mean much more.

November 22, 2024
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  • Ross Williams
Georgia State Capitol

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  • News

Senate committee studying transgender girls in sports hears stakeholder comment

The Georgia Senate committee studying the issue of transgender students participating in school sports heard testimony Thursday at the state capitol. 

November 21, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis
Riley Gaines

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  • News

Swimmers in lawsuit against NCAA speak at Georgia Senate committee on transgender women in sports

The Georgia Senate committee for Protecting Women's Sports held its inaugural meeting Tuesday,

August 28, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis
File photo provided by Getty Images

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  • News

Georgia bill creates 'hostile environment' for transgender kids, says parent

Georgia Senate Republicans passed a bill Tuesday that requires transgender kids to use the school bathroom that is consistent with their sex at birth, not their gender identity. The mother of a trans child spoke with GPB's Peter Biello about how the bill, if signed into law, would change her child's life.

March 27, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
The unnamed plaintiff's lawyers, Kazuyuki Minami, left, and Masafumi Yoshida, right, speak to media after the ruling of the Supreme Court on Wednesday in Tokyo.

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  • World

Japan's Supreme Court hands down a landmark transgender rights decision

The court ruled unanimously that compulsory sterilization surgery for people who seek to legally change their gender is unconstitutional.

October 25, 2023
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By:
  • Anthony Kuhn
A demonstrator holds a sign during a protest rally after Georgia's House and Senate voted to prohibit most medical treatments to minors that help affirm gender identity, outside the Capitol Building in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. March 20, 2023. Photo by Megan Varner/REUTERS

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  • News

Federal judge rules Georgia can resume enforcing ban on hormone treatment for transgender minors

Georgia can resume enforcing its new law banning hormone treatments for transgender children, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Ross Williams
A young child holds a pair of trans pride flags at a noon gathering on the steps of the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, as they protest House Bill 1125, which bans gender-affirming care for trans children, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023.

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  • News

Families sue Georgia over transgender health care law

Four Georgia families filed a lawsuit Thursday asking a federal court to bar the enforcement of Georgia's ban on gender-affirming healthcare.

June 30, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
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