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![A transgender pride flag waves during a protest in Chicago, Illinois, August 21, 2017.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/06/2019_0620-transgender-flag-400x300.jpg)
Transgender Women Challenge State Laws Blocking Name Changes
Barriers against legal name changes take a heavy toll on criminalized transgender people both in and out of prison.
![Community Demands Answers After Trans Black Latinx Woman Died at Rikers](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/06/S3_Layleen-Polanco-400x300.jpg)
Community Demands Answers After Trans Black Latinx Woman Died at Rikers
Layleen Polanco was transferred to solitary confinement a week before her death.
![Apology not accepted NYPD, because you hold up a rotten system, one that increasing numbers of us want to destroy.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/06/Queer_Liberation_Not_Rainbow_Capitalism-400x300.jpg)
NYPD, Apology for Stonewall Not Accepted
Apology not accepted NYPD, because you continue to beat, humiliate and lock up so many among us.
![A woman holds the trans flag during a protest](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/05/2019_0531-trans-rights-400x300.jpg)
Trump Administration Targets Trans Health Care Protections
A new Department of Health and Human Services rule will roll back discrimination protections for transgender people.
![By 2030, about 4.7 million of LGBT people in America over 50 will need elder care.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/05/GettyImages-854808214-400x300.jpg)
‘Stonewall Generation’ Confronts Old Age, Sickness — And Discrimination
By 2030, about 4.7 million of LGBT people in America over 50 will need elder care.
![Transgender youth fight their whole lives for the right to exist. This administration wants to take that away.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/05/2019_0512-mothers-day-child-400x300.jpg)
All I Want for Mother’s Day Is Equality for My Child
My child has fought her whole life for her right to exist. This administration wants to take that right away.
![A doctor stands with arms crossed as he holds a red stethoscope.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/05/2019_0504-LGBT-discrimination-400x300.jpg)
New Trump Rule Permits Anti-LGBTQ Health Care Discrimination
Those who refuse to provide health care services based on religious or conscience objections will have protections.
![U.S Representative Mary Gay Scanion (D-PA) speaks on introduction of the Equality Act, a comprehensive LGBTQ non-discrimination bill at the U.S. Capitol on April 01, 2019, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-1139739985-400x300.jpg)
The Crisis of Violence Against Transgender People Is Not a “Myth”
If we ever hope to end transphobic violence, we fight for the recognition of its existence and the urgency to stop it.
![Julia Beck testifies on the reauthorization the Violence Against Women Act](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/03/2019_0312-julia-beck-400x300.jpg)
House Republicans Use “Lesbian Radical Feminist” to Advance Anti-Trans Rhetoric
Julia Beck has been granted a platform to give the right wing's anti-transgender activism the veneer of bipartisanship.
![Empire actor Jussie Smollett leaves Cook County jail after posting bond on February 21, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois. Too much focus on Jussie Smollet distracts from the fact that violence against LGBTQ people of color is rising.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/02/2019_0226-smollett-400x300.jpg)
Racist Anti-LGBTQ Violence Is Real. Smollett Doesn’t Change That.
Too much focus on Jussie Smollett distracts from the fact that violence against LGBTQ people of color is rising.