With transgender athletes facing escalating political attacks and sports bans spreading across the country, one competitor on NBC’s American Ninja Warrior is proving that visibility itself can be an ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American An estimated 1.4 million Americans, close to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a lesbian teen growing up in Houston, Sam Rodriguez longed to join the U.S. military. But its “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) ...

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is breaking with the consensus of the American medical establishment about best practices in so-called "gender-affirming care" for minors. The ...

As conservative lawmakers continue to focus on transgender youth , a research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics found that less than 0.1% of American transgender teenagers who have private health ...

Ringing in voters' ears in the final weeks of the presidential campaign was the tagline: "Kamala is for they/them. Trump is for you." With the success of that part of its closing argument, the new ...

In a time when cisgender policymakers continue to make decisions that can dramatically affect the lives of transgender teens, it can sometimes be hard to remember that the estimated 300,000 youth in ...

Imagine this scenario: In late 2025, a social worker sits down with a transgender teenager and his parents. The family is ...

At the corner of Penticton Way and Crater Drive in Mira Mesa, there's a marker honoring a local civil rights icon. On top of the pole, the brown street sign reads "Julia Legaspi Way." She was a ...

It didn’t happen overnight, but it sure felt like it. My own copy of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the standard American reference book in the field — which is also the ...