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U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is backing away from its previous support of sex-change surgeries for minors who identify as transgender but is maintaining its support for other medical ...

In retrospect, what surprises me most is how quick it was. When Illinois approved the addition of an X gender marker on state IDs in 2019, I wasn’t even entirely sure I wanted one. It seemed ...

The new LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030 is stirring controversy by proposing that kids can legally pick their gender at any age — no doctors, no red tape. Under the draft plan, age thresholds for ...

In Indiana, gender change requests require a certified court order, which was among the documents required to file an application with health departments for an amended birth certificate. The Indiana ...

A convicted neo-Nazi is at the center of a firestorm in Germany after legally changing genders. Marla-Svenja Liebich, previously known as Sven Liebich, was assigned to a women's prison under the ...

Fewer than one per cent of people who have changed their legal gender choose to revert to the gender they were assigned at birth. This has been shown in a new study from Uppsala University in which ...

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