A transgender woman is the first person in Japan to be granted a legal gender change without having to undergo compulsory gender-affirming surgery. In order to legally change one's gender on official ...

Yesterday, an Indiana judge found that the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC) was violating the law in failing to provide a trans woman inmate with gender-affirming surgery. They have been ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on June 30 said lower courts must reconsider their decisions that government-sponsored insurance plans must pay for gender-affirming care, taking into account the ...

MIAMI - TransSocial, an advocacy group for the trans community, is delivering 40 letters to the acting president of the University of Miami. "We have letters from elected officials, all of our local ...

Removing women’s breasts is the least complicated part of gender reassignment surgery, and even this can result in serious complications. The more significant problems are associated with genital ...

In August, the Missouri Department of Revenue updated the process for gender marker changes on a state ID – now requiring proof of gender affirming surgery or a court order. Amariah Hardwick is a ...

Adults who undergo transgender surgery are at significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders than adults who do not undergo transgender surgery.