Healthcare access, medicine and policy.
The Health Council of the Netherlands says puberty blockers and hormone treatment fit within the country’s health law framework, while warning that withholding care can harm young people’s mental health and development.
The creator behind a viral series of Carlson-as-toddler videos said donations from that success helped cover facial feminization surgery and recovery.
The vice president joined the platform with a post about gender-affirming care and quickly became the most-blocked account in Bluesky’s history, according to Clearsky.
A tense exchange over anti-trans sports bills briefly derailed a Michigan House committee hearing before Republicans moved the measures forward.
Medical experts say vaginal atrophy can affect cisgender women, transmasculine people and others with declining estrogen levels, but treatment options can help ease pain and dryness.
From early gender-nonconforming figures and firsts in Congress to modern battles over health care, bathrooms and military service, a new chronology maps 250 years of trans life in America.
The bill includes provisions that would restrict Pride flags, target trans-related care and weaken protections for LGBTQ+ people in federal and foreign-assistance work.
A New York parent says a DOJ demand for his daughter’s records felt like intimidation as the Trump administration expands subpoenas targeting transgender children’s health care.
Community organisations, a state lawmaker and faith leaders say at least two incarcerated trans people were removed from prescribed medication after Missouri officials signaled they would not enforce a court ruling.
At an Education and Workforce Committee hearing, GOP lawmakers repeatedly fixated on “pregnant people,” drawing pushback from a UCSF dean and renewed scrutiny of anti-trans rhetoric.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled annual testosterone testing for service members 30 and older, with replacement therapy available when military doctors recommend it.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board argues that Donald Trump’s attacks on Thom Tillis helped create a more competitive Senate map for Democrats. The fallout also reaches health policy, with the GOP megabill still carrying Medicaid and transgender care provisions after a parliamentarian ruling.
The Trump administration is asking the 9th Circuit to overturn a decision that said the insurer’s limits on gender-affirming care violated the Affordable Care Act.
The department walked away from a plan that could have put Medicare and Medicaid funding at risk for hospitals offering gender-affirming treatment to minors.
