Transgender Rights

Oklahoma Joins States Banning Medicaid For Gender Affirming Care

July 7, 2026 Raven Raevsky, People's World. Educate! Health Care, Medicaid, Oklahoma, Transgender Rights

Oklahoma has joined a growing list of states targeting trans healthcare. And it’s no longer only minors whose health access is under attack, as the legislature there passed a law in May that targets gender affirming care for adults. The law, SB 904, takes a dual-track approach to restricting access. The first is suspending the ability of the state’s public funds and Medicaid program (called SoonerCare) to pay for gender affirming treatments; the second is barring public properties from administering gender affirming care to patients, including both minors and adults.

Pride 2026: Genocide Of Trans People Threatens All Workers

June 7, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. Strategize! Capitalism, Pride Month, State Oppression, Transgender Rights

Four years ago, SLL’s 2022 Pride Month statement called on the workers and oppressed to “Resist the capitalist ‘trans panic’ strategy.” We wrote then: “The only way fascist movements have ever been defeated is by people uniting and fighting back. “It is not enough to rely on elections or hope that friendly politicians will save us. They won’t. The Democratic Party is tied by a million threads to the same capitalist class that demands these anti-people measures.” The campaign of demonization has only intensified since then. For the past 18 months, Donald Trump’s regime has been steadily putting in place all of the infrastructure, legal and otherwise, to make it impossible for trans people to exist in public, and to justify the dehumanization and extermination of trans lives on a mass scale.

Trans Day Of Visibility: Minneapolis Calls For Sanctuary For Trans People

April 7, 2026 Janelle Carlson, Fight Back! News. Resist! Minneapolis, Sanctuary City, Transgender Day of Visibility, Transgender Rights

Minneapolis, MN – On Tuesday, March 31, more than 100 community members rallied outside of the Walker Library on Trans Day of Visibility to protest national policies targeting the rights of trans people. The rally was called by the Minnesota Abortion Action Committee in response to anti-trans measures, including the Trump administration’s executive orders E14168 and E14187, which have been used as templates to remove access to healthcare for adults and minors, remove protections against rape for trans prisoners in jails and immigration detention centers, and expose trans prisoners and detainees to conversion therapy, which is considered by the United Nations to be a form of torture.

Supreme Court Overturns Colorado Conversion Therapy Ban

April 6, 2026 Cassandra Swart, People's World. Educate! Conversion Therapy, health, Supreme Court, Transgender Rights

Washington, DC—In a shocking setback for LGBTQ+ rights, on Tuesday, March 31, the Supreme Court overturned Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy, calling it unconstitutional. The state law was aimed at blocking the practice, which seeks to suppress the identity and sexuality of queer youth. Extensive documented evidence from the American Medical Association has found that conversion therapy carried out on transgender minors is inherently harmful and leads to increased rates of suicide and psychological distress. But the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado’s medical malpractice law violated the freedom of speech of Kaley Chiles, a licensed conversion therapist.

Kansas Invalidates Transgender People’s Driver’s Licenses

March 3, 2026 Raven Raevsky, People's World. Educate! Driver's License, Kansas, State Legislatures, Transgender Rights

Topeka, Kansas—The Kansas Department of Revenue’s vehicles division has begun sending letters to trans people stating that their driver’s licenses are going to be invalidated in the coming days. New licenses will need to be issued to 1,800 people. The licenses were invalidated following the passage of the controversial SB 244 bill in the Kansas legislature. In addition to instigating the recent driver’s license shutdown, it also contained provisions for restricting bathroom access for trans people and for making trans bathroom goers on public properties vulnerable to lawsuits from civilian bathroom goers.

Health Department Seeks To Punish Hospitals For Treating Trans Kids

January 29, 2026 Raven Raevsky, People's World. Educate! Health Care, Health Department, Hospitals, Transgender Rights, Trump Administration

Just before the holidays last year, on Dec. 18, the Department of Health and Human Services announced regulatory proposals to suspend hospitals from providing gender affirming treatments to trans youth patients. The proposals stem from an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in January 2025 and seek to block hospitals from receiving Medicare and Medicaid funds if they offer “pharmaceutical and surgical interventions” to affirm trans minor patients. The later paragraphs of the press release issued by the staff of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy confirm that some of the treatments HHS is targeting include puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, and gender affirming surgeries.

CHOP Defends Rights Of Transgender Patients

December 11, 2025 Marie Kelly, Workers' World. Resist! CHOP, Health Care, Philadelphia, Transgender Rights, Trump Administration, Youth

A federal court in Philadelphia ruled in favor of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia blocking the Trump administration’s demand for the renowned hospital’s Gender and Sexuality Development Program to turn over confidential information about clinic patients. CHOP runs one of the largest clinics in the U.S. which provides medical care and mental health support for transgender and gender-nonbinary children and teens and their families. Each year since 2014, hundreds of new families seek care through the program.

On Trans Care, WaPo Rejects Experts And Invents ‘More Neutral’ Center

December 2, 2025 Julie Hollar, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! health, Media, Transgender Rights, Trump Administration, Washington Post

President Donald Trump, having campaigned heavily on anti-trans fear mongering, issued an executive order within days of taking office that banned federal support for gender-affirming care. That same order commanded the secretary of Health and Human Services to produce a report on “best practices” for the care of trans youth. When the report was released in May, exactly zero people were surprised that its conclusions echoed the executive order’s anti-trans stance—condemning gender-affirming care and instead recommending “exploratory” therapy—and were grounded in ideology, not science or medical expertise.

Study: Gender-Affirming Care Lowers Suicide Risk For Trans Kids

November 28, 2025 Chris Walker, Truthout. Educate! Health Care, suicide, Transgender Rights, Youth

A newly published study reveals that a certain kind of gender-affirming care for transgender kids and young adults likely lowers rates of suicidality among those populations. The study, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, examined 432 patients between the ages of 12 and 20 years old who received treatment at an unnamed Midwestern academic medical center. Patients who were set to receive gender-affirming care filled out Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) surveys prior to receiving hormone therapy (HT) treatment, then repeated the questionnaire at future visits.

Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Embolden Far Right

November 20, 2025 Zane McNeill, Truthout. Resist! Anti-Trans Laws, Donald Trump, Human Rights, Transgender Rights

In 2025, over a thousand anti-transgender bills were introduced in 49 states across the country. Of those, over 100 have passed so far this year, continuing the trend of five consecutive record-breaking years of anti-trans legislation from 2020 to 2024. In recent years, I have watched these state-level attacks on transgender people spread across more than half the country, with many of these policies now being embraced at the federal level. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care was constitutional, effectively opening the door for similar bans in 26 states.

Critics Decry Scotus Ruling Upholding Ban On Gender-Affirming Care

June 19, 2025 Chris Walker, Truthout. Educate! Health Care, LGBTQ, SCOTUS, Tennessee, Transgender Rights, US Supreme Court

On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court ruled to uphold a Tennessee law that bans physicians from providing gender-affirming care to transgender children, a decision that will likely reverberate across the more than two dozen states that have similar bans. Critics decried the decision as denying trans kids access to safe and critical health care options. Gender-affirming care, including for youth, is endorsed by the vast majority of respected health organizations, and is considered to be life-saving by many who receive it. All six conservative justices on the high court sided with Tennessee lawmakers, who argued that their ban should be allowed to operate.

Seven Supreme Court Cases That Black Americans Should Track This Summer

June 11, 2025 Jonathan Forney, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Birthright Citizenship, Black America, Deportations, Education, Health Care, Immigration, LGBTQ Rights, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Transgender Rights, US Supreme Court, Voting Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

From voting rights to health care to workplace equality, the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on a number of issues this summer that could have major implications for Black Americans. “In America, for Black people, we’ve had a long season where our rights were generally respected,” said Andrea Young, executive director of the ACLU, who has been closely following the Trump administration’s legal moves. “We have Black elected officials … Black leaders in corporate America, we have extreme poverty, but we also have thriving middle class communities. We have many areas where we have lots of highly educated black people. All of those things rest on a legal framework that allows those rights to be protected.”

Edinburgh Came Out Against Court’s Roll-Back Of Trans Women’s Rights

April 22, 2025 The Canary. Resist! Scotland, Solidarity, Supreme Court, Transgender Rights

On Saturday 19 April, around 2,000 protesters turned out in Edinburgh against the UK Supreme Court’s roll-back of transgender women’s rights. Members of the public marched from the foot of The Mound to the UK government building to rail against the disgraceful far-right-fueled ruling. Together, gender queer communities and allies galvanised a highly energised crowd against the Supreme Court ruling. Throughout, the rhetoric was one of encouraging solidarity within the trans community, rather than begging the government for help. This included a call to autonomously establish sources of “Food, Housing, Medicine and Trans Joy”.

Backlash To Transgender Health Care Isn’t New

April 1, 2025 Samantha Rosenthal, Scheer Post. Educate! Fascism, Health Care, History, Transgender Rights

In the past century, there have been three waves of opposition to transgender health care. In 1933, when the Nazis rose to power, they cracked down on transgender medical research and clinical practice in Europe. In 1979, a research report critical of transgender medicine led to the closure of the most well-respected clinics in the United States. And since 2021, when Arkansas became the first U.S. state among now at least 21 other states banning gender-affirming care for minors, we have been living in a third wave. In my work as a scholar of transgender history, I study the long history of gender-affirming care in the U.S., which has been practiced since at least the 1940s.

Fighting The Trans Care Scare

March 23, 2025 Eva Moschitto, The Indypendent. Resist! Donald Trump, Health Care, Hospitals, Transgender Rights

Less than 48 hours after NYU Langone canceled gender-affirming care appointments for two trans children, over one thousand protesters, including doctors, parents, students and teachers, showed up at the Upper East Side hospital for an action organized by the Democratic Socialists of America. Five days later, several thousand people gathered in Union Square for a “Rise Up for Trans Youth” rally organized by Transformative Schools, Act Up NY and the Gender Liberation Movement. Attorney General Letitia James sent a letter reminding health care providers of their obligation to comply with state anti-discrimination laws, “regardless of the availability of federal funding.”

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