The judge found 349 individual facts supported the continued provision of gender-affirming care. Judge Carl Folsom III [Photo Credit: Linkedin] This weekend, a Kansas judge issued a scathing 117-page rebuke of the state's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth—and in doing so, methodically dismantled the case against that care. In his ruling, Judge Carl Folsom III worked through the testimony of the state's witnesses one by one, finding that its anti-transgender...

The ruling is a landmark ruling in keeping gender-affirming care legal and available in blue states. Colorado Supreme Court [Photo Credit: Jeffrey Beall] Today, the Colorado Supreme Court ordered Children’s Hospital Colorado to resume gender-affirming care for transgender youth, ruling 5-2 that the hospital discriminated against transgender youth patients when it shuttered its care program earlier this year in capitulation to Trump. The decision reverses a district court that had ruled...

The new rule would enact the "Mexico City Policy" towards what it calls "gender ideology." Wikimedia Commons // WHO // Thorkild Tylleskar On Monday, the Trump administration published a new rule in the Federal Register that could affect more than $30 billion in U.S. foreign aid distributed to international organizations. The funding—supporting hospital clinics, HIV/AIDS programs, educational institutions, and more—would be conditioned on sweeping new restrictions barring “social...