A federal judge has ordered Idaho and its prison medical care provider to pay more than $2.5 million in legal fees to a transgender inmate who sued after she was denied gender confirmation surgery.

Transitioning "was harder than words could ever describe. It was terrifying. It was expensive. And it was the best thing I have ever done for myself," the author writes. (Photo: Courtesy of Elizabeth ...

Students at the Yale University School of Law sued the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in federal court to force the agency to cover gender confirmation surgery for transgender veterans. It’s the ...

Emira D'Spain is celebrating a major milestone. The beauty influencer shared a video to social media, documenting her journey to getting gender confirmation surgery—a procedure that "provides for ...

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ATLANTA — The state of Georgia will start paying for gender-affirming health care for state employees, public school teachers and former employees covered by a state health insurance plan, settling ...

Lindsay Church, executive director of Minority Veterans of America (center), speaks at a Capitol Hill rally on LGBTQ veterans rights on March 29. (Leo Shane III/Staff) Two years after Veterans Affairs ...

Mayo Clinic's first gender confirmation surgery was not the first in Minnesota history after all. Instead, Marisa Bella's Feb. 24 procedure opened a door that had been slammed shut more than 40 years ...

BOISE, Idaho — Legislation that would make it illegal to perform gender confirmation surgery on juveniles was introduced in the Idaho House State Affairs Committee on Tuesday. Rep. Bruce Skaug, a ...

The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is hastening a transgender ex-neo-Nazi bank robber’s “gender confirmation surgeries” after the inmate filed a lawsuit against the federal agency claiming it denied ...