transgender rights

After the Kentucky GOP passed more anti-transgender laws, trans Kentuckians are supporting each other and speaking out about the harm they say lawmakers are causing.

Tennessee’s Republican governor may sign a proposal that would require educational institutions that house students overnight to separate bathrooms “by immutable biological sex.”

As midnight and the governor’s veto period approached Friday night, the Kentucky General Assembly pushed through several highly controversial bills, including one that cuts gender-affirming hormone treatments from Medicaid.

A recent executive order by President Donald Trump stops transgender, intersex and nonbinary people from updating the gender marker on their passports. Now, some Kentuckians say they are getting passports with the wrong gender marker.

A bill moving through the Tennessee state legislature would require schools to segregate some facilities based on biological sex.

With months to go before the U.S. Supreme Court rules on gender-affirming care for minors, the Trump administration has changed the federal government’s legal position on the case. The U.S. Department of Justice notified the high court Friday that the U.S. is now backing the state of Tennessee and its ban on the care.

The Kentucky Department of Corrections said last month that 67 state inmates are taking hormones to treat gender dysphoria. A Republican priority bill seeks to deny such medication.

It’s the first new school year since Tennessee passed a law requiring schools to out transgender students to their parents. Gov. Bill Lee signed the measure into law in May.

The Kentucky Legislature outlawed gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender children last year. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court will scrutinize a ruling that has kept that law in effect.

An appeals court declined to reinstate a block on Kentucky's ban on gender-affirming hormone therapy for transgender kids. But that isn't the final word on the issue.