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Navy and Marine Corps boards voted for retention in nine of 12 cases, challenging an administration that treats transgender identity as grounds to end a military career.

As the Trump administration rolls back protections for LGBTQ+ students and survivors of sexual harassment and assault, Family Equality's Ted Lewis and Anna Santa Maria explain how families can fight back.

More than 100 pediatricians and nurses have joined the campaign against Initiative 638, which they say would create harmful barriers for young athletes.

As the legendary queen celebrates 30 years in the industry, Rio is returning to the screen and stage on her 'bitter' world tour.

According to the United States Postal Service, the permit of Three Z Printing Company was used to send the mailers.

Scott Presler said friends used his address while "actively working" in the state, but they left quickly after the election.

Nationwide, choruses centering transgender and nonbinary people are bringing much-needed joy and solidarity to their community and beyond.

The New York congressional candidate opens up about sexual scrutiny, his deployed fiancé, and the pressure to edit a life into something voters will accept.

On Intersex Awareness Day, Betsy Driver and Riki Wilchins trace a movement that challenged medical secrecy and is still fighting to make consent matter.

One spouse has retired. Another plans to. Their families say protecting their transgender children has made the military careers they loved untenable.

On Intersex Awareness Day, Zach Eisenstein explains why political attempts to define sex as strictly male or female ignore scientific reality.

Anti-trans laws often make exceptions for surgeries on intersex children. Thea Hillman explains why both communities' rights are at stake.

Investigators say more than 100 voicemails to a former schoolmate included threats of violence against her and LGBTQ+ people.

Rallygoers laughed as Trump used the slur against the cisgender pediatrician, who has publicly opposed transgender inclusion in women’s sports.

Survivors describe repeated assaults and pleas for help met with blame as the administration moves to weaken protections against sexual violence behind bars.

“There’s no reason to have singled us out and discriminated against us,” executive director Mary Adam tellsThem.

Supporters call it “fairness for girls.” A legal challenge argued that the wording conceals the measure’s targeting of transgender athletes.