Transgender Rights

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

A federal appeals court has ruled that West Virginia and North Carolina's refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory.

A gender transition means a lot of changes in a person's life — and a lot of changes for their romantic partner. Two couples share their experiences of staying together after one partner came out as trans.

The Transgender American Veterans Association is suing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, two years after the department said it would provide gender affirmation surgery.

Transgender residents of North Carolina and Montana added to a growing list of lawsuits challenging the recent onslaught of Republican state laws aimed at transgender individuals.

A federal appeals court is considering two cases out of North Carolina and West Virginia that could have significant implications on whether individual states are required to cover health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance.

The state House and Senate voted mostly along party lines Wednesday to override Gov. Roy Cooper's vetoes of controversial transgender restrictions.

Cooper calls the measures a "triple threat of political culture wars using government to invade the rights and responsibilities of parents and doctors."

Legislation to ban gender-affirming healthcare for transgender people under age 18 is now headed to Gov. Roy Cooper's desk.

GOP lawmakers initially wanted to ban both gender transition surgery and hormone treatments in people under age 18. A new version of the bill would only ban such treatments in healthcare facilities operated or funded by the state