Transgender Rights

"It's really heartbreaking... the same thing that she was trying to be vocal about happened to her," said a friend of the victim.

Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey said the decision was "unjust and wrong" and called on Congress to pass the Equality Act.

"Well, I guess I'll go sleep in the woods," Samantha Coyle said she thought after the homeless shelter denied her entry because she's transgender.

Aimee Stephens told her boss she is transgender. Two weeks later her boss fired her because she was no longer going to "represent himself as a man." Here's everything we know about her landmark Supreme Court case.

Pauline del Mundo, 59, was on her way to Cozumel, Mexico for a vacation. She went missing during a layover at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and hasn't been heard from since.

Domingo Ramirez-Cavente, 29, was arrested in connection with the shooting of a transgender woman on Friday night. He has admitted to the crime.

Two days before Evan Minton was scheduled to have a hysterectomy, Mercy San Juan Medical Center canceled the procedure, because it was "part of a course of treatment for gender dysphoria."

In a sit-down with the National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund, Booker said he hoped soon his brother's child "and other great trans leaders in the youth community" had a voice in the White House.

The snack giant gave away special-edition Oreo packages at NYC Pride with 'she/her,' 'he/him, and 'they/them' imprinted on the cookies.

Grimm, a 19-year-old trans rights activist and educator, has been fighting a Virginia school board for four years over their bathroom policy.

The proposed law seeks to allow teenagers to determine their gender without medical examination.

"Anchorage voters rejected fear and intimidation," Fair Anchorage Field Organizer Lillian Lennon said.

"If mothers wear jeans and shirts and dress like men, they will beget children who are transgenders."

I brought my daughter Ellie to meet DeVos last year and hoped she would support her rights. She didn't.

Trans students using the bathroom of their choice opens up girls to "sexual assault or rape," according to Kozma.

Mack Beggs has been transitioning from female to male and is taking a low dosage of testosterone that many view as an unfair advantage.

"Every single federal court to look at President Trump's policy has already found that it reeks of undisguised and unlawful discrimination against qualified transgender people willing and able to serve our country."

A transgender woman is seeking to be transferred to a female prison after enduring physical and sexual harassment at male prisons, she alleges.

"There is this place in our government, where things are much better than we have guessed," Alexandra Chandler told Newsweek. "We are better than this moment."

This past year has been monumental for transgender rights—and 2018 could be just as consequential.

"Just bottom line, when we have representation, comments like that are less likely to be made because the people who would make them aren't in office anymore," Roem told Newsweek of Moore's anti-LGBT rhetoric.

As a transgender conservative woman, Blaire White might seem like a walking contradiction. She doesn't think so.

Vitaliy Milonov also wants to ban Russians from transitioning from one gender to another.

A veterans group has said the White House memo shows how the president has "embraced hate."

The tide of progress will not be held back by administrations like President Trump's.

Trump made his decision in order to make sure the bill containing funding for the wall would move forward, Politico reported.

Trump said transgender troops bring "tremendous medical costs," but studies say otherwise.

Donald Trump's ban on transgender military service adds the U.S. to a list of 175 U.N.-recognized states that discriminate based on gender identity.

The military is attempting to determine how ready it is to implement a policy enacted under former President Barack Obama's administration.

The Seventh Court found Tuesday that the school district was likely violating Ash Whitaker's rights as guaranteed through Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Constitution.