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High school sports panel shoots down transgender policy changes
The measure would have required transgender high school athletes to sign up for activities based on the biological sex listed on their birth certificate.
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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.