LGBTQ

The state’s largest health system says federal pressure influenced its decision. Families and advocates say the move is devastating for transgender kids.

Rep. Nasif Majeed, a Mecklenburg County Democrat, cast the deciding vote to override Stein's veto. The bill originally started as an effort to help people get pornographic material removed, but the Senate added a number of policies regulating trans people.

Governor Josh Stein signed the legislation, despite rejecting other transgender health bills as "mean-spirited."

Under the Trump Administration's ban on transgender troops, service members are being given the opportunity to self-identify and receive separation benefits, or take the risk of being outed and go through an involuntary separation.

The state Senate approved a bill Tuesday that includes multiple controversial LGBTQ policies. Democrats objected to a GOP move to add the proposals to a popular House bill, prompting a heated fight over the Senate's rules.

Republicans in the state Senate are putting multiple controversial LGBTQ policies in a single bill that moved forward Wednesday. The proposals were added to a bill labeled "prevent sexual exploitation" that would regulate pornographic websites and had passed the House with unanimous support.

Up to 20% of the LGBTQ+ population in the U.S. lives in rural America. That’s millions of people defying the narrative that the only place queer folks want to live is in a city or on the coast. One rural queer person set out to interrogate that false narrative by documenting the stories of other queer folks in the country.

The leadership of the Pauli Murray Center says it's another attempt from the Trump Administration to censor their work.

A directive from the Trump administration has led to the removal of references to Pauli Murray's queer and transgender identities on the federal U.S. National Park Service website.

New policies limiting transgender rights — including restricting access to gender-affirming care — add emotional and mental strain to transgender youth and their families.