In recent years, several prominent Americans have come out as transgender or gender nonbinary (that is, identifying as neither exclusively a man nor a woman). Governments at both the federal and state levels also have moved toward putting more legal

After almost three decades of fighting, queer people in India won a long overdue battle when the Supreme Court of India decriminalized same-sex sexual acts among consenting adults in 2018. Since then, I have often been asked where I see

West Virginia’s law is the first such set of restrictions on trangender athletes to be paused this year while legal challenges are ongoing. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images A federal judge decided Wednesday to temporarily block a West Virginia law that bars

LGBTQ rights advocates said Monday that they will seek to challenge an appeals court decision tossing out part of a California law designed to protect older transgender residents in nursing homes.The 2017 law is intended to protect against discrimination or mistreatment based

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Amid their Democratic colleagues’ push to halt GOP priority voting legislation,

An injunction from US District Judge Aleta Trauger of the Middle District of Tennessee has temporarily halted the state from enforcing the law, which went into effect earlier this month. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit last

A Tennessee law requiring businesses to post a notice if they allow transgender patrons to use bathrooms in line with their gender identity is facing a pair of legal challenges. Last week, Nashville record label owner Mike Curb filed suit in

The publicity-shy weightlifter is set to be the first openly transgender athlete ever to compete at the Olympics, and her inclusion has generated a fierce debate on gender, sexism and sport. To her supporters, the 43-year-old's selection is a decades-in-the-making

WASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to a transgender former public high school student who waged a six-year legal battle against a Virginia county school board that had barred him from using