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Florida Won’t Cover Transgender Health Care. Two Trans Women Are Suing.
It's the latest legal challenge to state health plans that deny coverage for gender-affirming procedures.
On Trans Day of Resilience, Artists Show Us a Future of Liberation
Five poets and five visual artists honor trans lives lost to violence and tell us what resilience means to them.
Policing Statistics Silence the Most Vulnerable People
The most vulnerable people have the most at stake in questions of policing, but their voices are silenced in data.
Medical Care for Trans Women in Illinois Prisons Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment
After over a decade of torture and being denied the medical care she seeks, Janiah Monroe is suing Illinois prisons.
Religious Corporations Are Interfering in Doctor-Patient Relationships
Faith-based health facilities are increasingly imposing their biases on the medical decision-making process.
Fired for Being Trans or for Violating Dress Code? Supreme Court Will Decide.
The Trump administration says an employer can fire you for being transgender if they are really enforcing a dress code.
Trump DOJ Urges Supreme Court to Legalize Firing Workers for Being Transgender
The filing comes days after the Labor Department unveiled a rule allowing LGBTQ discrimination by federal contractors.
Kamala Harris Has a Distinguished Career of Serving Injustice
As attorney general, Harris opposed efforts to mandate independent investigations of police shootings.
LGBTQ Activists Demand an End to the Pinkwashing of Militarism
Opposing militarism is central to guaranteeing that trans people can survive and thrive everywhere.
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.