continue to have their privacy respected regarding gender-expansive or transgender status, legal name, or sex assigned at birth."

The plaintiffs—two transgender-identifying adults and two transgender-identifying minors—argued in court filings that so-called "gender affirming care" should be seen as "medically necessary, safe, and effective" for both adults and adolescents.

Yates now goes by the name Sasha Yates, and publicly identifies as a transgender woman, according to the Gettysburg Times. Mr. Yates has been a seasonal boys and girls tennis coach since 2018.

The state of West Virginia and a former collegiate soccer player are asking the Supreme Court to back a state law that bans male student-athletes who present as female from playing on girls’ school sports teams. The legal action comes as West Virginia and other states are taking action to make sure women and girls […]

A House committee on March 9 voted to pass a bill that would bar transgender athletes from competing in women's and girls' sports.

Montana lawmakers voted 68–32 on April 26 to ban Zephyr from voting on the House floor after the Democrat broke decorum during a debate over a bill banning transgender medical procedures for minors.

“They didn't even use the word 'transgender' back then,” she said. But it was a foretaste of what many Americans would soon experience. Shannon describes herself as a “trans widow.”

While nearly a third of company insurance plans cover transgender modifications, only 2 percent cover cosmetic surgery not related to transgender procedures, Patterson told The Epoch Times in an email interview.

Several transgender procedures, including both surgery and drugs, are irreversible.

If children are taught that being transgender is normal, they will be more likely to identify as transgender, he said. And children who struggle with gender identity are far more likely to be anxious and depressed, he said.

More recently, DeSantis signed into law a comprehensive package that limits access to transgender procedures and opposite-sex bathrooms. Gov.

Mace said that other western nations have raised concerns about the transgender drugs and surgeries, but that the Biden administration has gone all in.

It has seen growing popularity over recent years among American teenagers and young adults who identify as transgender and wish to have their body more closely resemble their preferred gender.

bar transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for minors.

Some concerned about transhumanism have said the transgender movement has turned human body parts into commodities. Even so, Dr. Barrows said, few doctors have fought back against the transgender movement.

But the truth is the so-called “Equality Act” should be called “The Transgender Supremacy Act.” It is not an exaggeration to describe these two bills as transgender supremacy.

New Hampshire Bans Transgender Procedures for Children, Reserves Girls’ Sports for Females New Hampshire Gov.

“Both parties support a law that forbids performing the transgender procedures on a minor without the full and informed consent of the parents,” Mr. McClintock said.

ET on April 20 on bill aimed at prohibiting transgender women from competing in women's sports.

She alleged that transgender activists surrounded her and backed her into a room, where she remained for several hours before she escaped.

Kollé will be the second openly transgender person to compete in the Miss Universe pageant—the first competitor who identified as transgender was Angela Ponce in 2018, who won the title of Miss Spain.

The Biden administration on Thursday proposed a new Title IX rule that would make school policies illegal if they “categorically ban transgender students from participating on sports teams consistent with their gender identity.”

The most noteworthy pertain to contentious issues in the national spotlight: the rights of high school transgender student-athletes to play on the sports team of the gender with which they identify, and the rights of transgender youth to receive the healthcare

When Yang started her work as an LGBT activist in 2011, she had never heard of a "trans kid," but believed in the transgender cause, she said.

Texas Children’s Hospital, the nation’s largest children’s hospital, will no longer offer transgender medical procedures for children, according to the hospital’s CEO Mark Wallace.

Jesika Gonzalez of TERF Collective, a group “working to end the international campaign of female erasure that is transgender ideology,” also spoke at the protest.

Mermaids is a children’s charity that supports “gender variant and transgender youth,” and many celebrities, politicians, and businesses have endorsed the organisation.

“I feel like transgender athletes should be able to embrace this.” She said if she was part of the transgender community, she would welcome a unique category to compete in. “I would embrace a separate category and I would be a spokesperson.

(House Oversight Committee/Screenshot via NTD) Taking 'A Meat Clever to DEI' Among other adopted amendments are measures prohibiting the DOD’s health care program from “furnishing sex reassignment surgeries and gender hormone treatments for transgender

The move means that Kentucky is the 11th state in the country to ban transgender procedures for minors. It becomes the eighth state to do so this year. Proposed by state Sen.