Last month, Open Door Community Health Centers quietly enacted a policy change that would prevent its providers from performing gender-affirming care for new patients under 19 years of age. Open Door ...

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NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be pushing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.

Families of transgender youth in California learned this month that their private medical records will not be sent to the Trump administration, for now. That’s after a federal judge temporarily ...

On March 2, the viciously anti-trans attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, released an opinion saying it’s illegal for mental health care providers in the state to affirm trans youth. He said the ...

The spending comes after providers warned that federal cuts could threaten access to care for transgender Californians.

The following is an excerpt from the new book Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds by Laura Horak and available now from University of California Press. Since the 1990s, a largely ...

Christopher Wiggins is a senior national reporter for The Advocate. He has a rich career in storytelling and highlighting underrepresented voices. Growing up in a bilingual household in Germany, his ...

Social media is an evolving form of communication that is now easily accessible to and incredibly influential of teens today. In fact, seven in ten teens across the country say they use Instagram, ...

ERODE: A 25-year-old youth legally wedded a 27-year-old trans woman in a self-respect marriage despite his parents’ ...