When envisioning the prom of her dreams, Libby Gonzales, a 13-year-old Texan who is helping plan the first-ever transgender youth prom at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., had a lot of big ideas.

Transgender rights are under attack in the United States and throughout the world. In the U.S. alone, there are currently more than 500 active anti-trans bills, and 83 that have been passed in 2023.

For three years, Jesse Brace avoided getting care for their seizures after they experienced discrimination at an emergency room near their home in Lawrence, Kansas, in 2017. They said they told the ...

Derek Siegel receives funding from the American Sociological Association. Between 25% and 50% of transgender adults in the U.S. have children. Some have kids before coming out as trans, others adopt ...

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Maryhope Howland gave birth ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with three journalists on how they report on news affecting transgender people, and how being trans themselves shapes their reporting. News organizations are doing stories ...

More than 100 anti-trans laws have been introduced across the country this year. Esmée Silverman, an openly transgender senior in Massachusetts, says her high school experience "had a lot of its ups ...

March is Women’s History Month, which means I’m often asked to name the most pressing issue facing women in America. Answers spring to mind, sometimes faster than I can form the words. The fall of Roe ...

Mr. Strangio is a trans rights activist and lawyer at the A.C.L.U. In my childhood, trans representation was largely confined to sensationalized daytime talk shows — think “Jerry Springer” — and ...

Erin Reed was thirteen when she watched The Matrix for the first time. In the mornings, she would log into internet chat rooms with a feminine screen name and talk to her online friends. Then she ...

At no point have black trans people shared fully in the gains of the L.G.B.T.Q. or racial justice movements. This may be changing. Nala Toussaint, a trans activist and organizer.Credit...Gioncarlo ...

Precious Brady Davis says that she uses the label trans* to describe herself because it’s “undefinable.” While that may be true in some senses, the experts at the Oxford English Dictionary have still ...