Transgender Rights

The Justices are heading into a busy, contentious season. The mood seems brittle.

Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance. Too often, trans expression is on the losing end.

With the “Big Beautiful Bill” in flux, and federal funds for gender-affirming care hanging in the balance, protections for trans children and adults continue to be dismantled at the state level.

The Supreme Court was unlikely to strike down a state ban on some pediatric medical treatments, but the Biden Justice Department’s strategy made it even more improbable.

By forcing rigid definitions of sex across all federal agencies, Republicans are undermining the administrative state’s capacity to protect public health and safety.

The writer is known for her acerbic criticism of liberals. Is she one herself?

The executive order banning Americans from self-identifying on their passports—which is part of a larger crackdown on bodily autonomy—has made it harder for trans people to travel, or to get passports at all.

In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order banning transition-related care for minors, hospitals in blue states began cancelling appointments—forcing families in New York and beyond to consider whether even liberal cities are safe.

The first trans person elected to Congress discusses how to respond to a bathroom bill and transphobic attacks from her new colleagues in the House.

A new bill aims to enshrine the rights of trans and nonbinary Colombians. Camila Falquez takes pictures of the lives it could change.

Noah Schamus and Brit Fryer’s short film offers a vision of how physicians and trans patients can meet one another on equal footing.

The philosopher popularized new ideas about gender—and has been burned in effigy for it. They talk with David Remnick about their new book, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?”

What a blood test taught me about testosterone, athleticism, and sex.

In a state that once considered itself a political outlier, the legislature barred a transgender representative from its floor. Will encroaching extremism seize the last best place?

A new movie from the director Saim Sadiq, which depicts queer love against the backdrop of a Pakistani household, feels as familiar as our families are to us.

The writer explains why the message of rolling back social change is powerful. Plus, a Nebraska lawmaker on the front lines of the fight against anti-trans legislation.

In the short documentary “CANS Can’t Stand,” by Matt Nadel and Megan Plotka, activists work to overturn a baldly prejudiced law aimed at L.G.B.T.Q. people.

The Red River Women’s Clinic has thirty days to close on one side of the border with Minnesota, before reopening on the other.

The unnamed woman in Sheona McDonald’s “Into Light” talks with care and candor about what happened after her young child said, “You know I’m really a girl.”

Physicians caring for transgender youth are at the center of a political storm. Many have remained silent, but one pediatrician goes on the record with the reporter Rachel Monroe.