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AP PHOTOS: Transgender youths show hardship, resilience
Many young transgender people, wrestling with their identities, find themselves shunned by family, friends and co-workers. Here are their stories.
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Girl Scouts council returns $100,000 donation over anti‑transgender provision
The Girl Scouts of Western Washington says it has returned a $100,000 donation because it came with the provision that the money couldn’t be used to support transgender girls.
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PBS documentary ‘Growing Up Trans’ explores possibilities, unknowns facing transgender youth
“Growing Up Trans” explores the transgender phenomenon as younger people than ever (and their parents) now experience it: a frontier of possibilities and unknowns, and a minefield of high-stakes choices.
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Was an Alabama teen murdered because she was transgender?
Alabama 17-year-old Mercedes Williamson’s lifeless body was found earlier this month in a field in the rural Mississippi community of Rocky Creek, according to authorities.
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N.Y civil liberties group: State fails to protect transgender students from harassment
Transgender students are often harassed in public schools across New York, and education officials have failed to carry out a legislative mandate to protect them, the New York Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday.
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Transgender student sues Virginia high school, citing restroom policy
A transgender teenager said in a lawsuit Thursday that he has been stigmatized by a policy that bars him from using the boys’ restrooms at his eastern Virginia high school.
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Court: Transgender teen’s rights violated when she was transferred to a prison
Connecticut’s second-highest court has ruled that a transgender teenager’s rights were violated when she was transferred to a prison from the state’s child welfare agency last year.
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Officials close investigation in trans teen’s suicide, refer to her as ‘Mr. Alcorn’ in final report
The death of a troubled transgender teenager who begged people to fix society has been deemed a suicide.
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Jacob’s journey from girl to boy: Mother of 5-year-old explains her decision
In a rare and revealing interview, Joe and Mimi Lemay shared why they let their son, Jacob, transition as part of NBC News’ series on Transgender Kids.
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Bullied transgender teen dies in apparent suicide
Family members confirmed that 16-year-old Taylor Alesana, who spoke on YouTube about being bullied at high school, took her life on April 2.