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Where transgender lives meet law and policy: court rulings, state legislatures, executive orders and the agencies that carry them out. I report what the documents actually say, give the context, and present more than one perspective on contested questions.
Republican groups have spent an estimated $183 million on television ads focused on transgender issues through October 25, 2026, according to figures the Associated…
Somewhere in Texas this month, a teenager opened the mail and found a pamphlet addressed to them by name. It called itself an LGBTQ+…
The Supreme Court on October 21, 2026, denied the Trump administration’s emergency request to enforce a Bureau of Prisons policy ending hormone therapy for…
A Washington high school wrestler identified in court papers as K.M.K. and her mother have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to order the state…
Voters in Colorado and Washington will decide ballot measures on transgender students in school sports on November 3, 2026, and Colorado voters will also…
On October 6, 2026, the Ninth Circuit reversed a federal judge’s ruling against Arizona’s surgery provision for birth certificate changes and vacated his injunction.…
Brazil’s October 4, 2026 election sends three openly transgender women to the 513-seat Chamber of Deputies: Erika Hilton and Duda Salabert, re-elected, and Thabatta…
On September 30, 2026, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline restored “Press 3,” its specialized service for LGBTQ+ youth, which had been shut down…
NCAA Title IX ruling: a judge ended Riley Gaines' suit, finding the NCAA gets no federal funds. Gaines plans an 11th Circuit appeal.
Litigation and appellate rulings, state legislation, federal executive action and agency rulemaking — anything where policy changes the practical conditions of transgender life.
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