“Why would you ever take a healthy body and make a lifelong medical patient out of it?” This is the question Amy found herself posing to her teenage daughter, to the medical and scientific communities, and to society as a whole. For a mother who was unable to prevent her daughter’s gender transition, it was…

Louisiana will ban certain transgender procedures on people under the age of 18 after lawmakers overturned the governor’s veto of the bill. The Stop Harming Our Kids Act, also known as HB 648 (pdf), was passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature along party lines in early June, but Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, had vetoed the bill….

Twenty-one clinicians and researchers from nine countries have signed a letter saying that the “best available evidence” doesn’t support the prevailing treatment methods of gender dysphoria, namely sex-change procedures, in the United States. “Every systematic review of evidence to date, including one published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society, has found the evidence for mental-health…

A federal judge recently dismissed a lawsuit brought by a California parent who claimed her child’s school district failed to inform her of her daughter’s desire to change her pronouns and gender identity. Aurora Regino sued the Chico Unified School District in January, claiming school officials began “socially transitioning” her fifth-grade daughter without notifying her….

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction halting part of Indiana’s ban on gender transition procedures for minors, pending the outcome of a legal challenge. U.S. District Court Judge James Patrick Hanlon, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, blocked the enforcement of provisions in the bill that prohibited puberty blockers and cross-sex…

A coalition of 22 state attorneys general has joined in one of multiple amicus briefs filed in support of two Florida parents who sued a Florida school district for holding secret meetings with their daughter on gender transitioning. The attorneys general are asking the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Florida to reverse the Northern…

Commentary By 2017, already professionally engaged in transgender politics, I began to focus on the anecdotally observed phenomenon of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD), that is, a sudden declaration of a need for gender transition in adolescents and young adults (AYA) who had never presented as dysphoric in childhood. I sought research material, but available studies…

Title 42 is coming to a close at midnight Thursday. House lawmakers have passed a border security bill that includes the border wall, asylum process reforms, and more, while U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas addressed the Biden administration’s plans to deal with the expected influx. An activist group in Florida secretly sent gender transition kits…

Title 42 is coming to a close at midnight Thursday. House lawmakers have passed a border security bill that includes the border wall, asylum process reforms, and more, while U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas addressed the Biden administration’s plans to deal with the expected influx. An activist group in Florida secretly sent gender transition kits…

A walkout by most Republicans and two independent members of the Oregon Senate starting May 3 delayed action by the majority Democrats on bills related to restricting access to guns, and increasing access to abortion, and gender-transition services. Because Oregon’s legislative rules require a two- thirds quorum to conduct business, the session ground to a…