Transgender

About a dozen bills introduced this year in North Carolina would impact transgender people including some that would restrict health care available to transgender kids.

The often-heated debate puts transgender athletes at the center of an issue without a clear middle ground.

Transgender youth in North Carolina would have to wait until they turn 18 to receive gender-affirming surgeries under a bill approved Wednesday by the GOP-controlled state House.

N.C. House Republicans want to ban gender transition surgeries for people under 18.

The bill would bar transgender girls from participating on girls middle school and high school sports teams. An amendment would continue to allow girls to play on boys teams.

Advocates say the policy could harm transgender students who are not out to their parents.

Measures aimed at restricting kids’ access to gender-affirming care, confidentiality with school personnel raise hackles among health and mental health professionals.

The Durham Public Schools Board of Education unanimously passed a gender support policy.

Facial feminization surgery has been growing as a gender-affirming procedure and a way to combat gender dysphoria. The demand also sheds some light on the ways we construct gender and sex.

Under the consent judgment, the state Department of Health and Human Services and other state government officials must provide accurate birth certificates that reflect an applicant’s sex, consistent with their gender identity, without having to undergo surgery.