ABC News' Juju Chang on meeting Nathan Jones, who was born a female. — -- With a hip goatee and retro glasses, I’m immediately struck by the handsome, broad shouldered 17-year-old young man with ...

M.L., a 16-year-old transgender high school track athlete who asked to be identified only by initials to protect her safety, said a recent spotlight on her at Martin Luther King High School in ...

Transgender Americans are at the center of growing political attacks and national media coverage, and yet there is little data — and plenty of misinformation — about their lives. A report released ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Findings from the 2022 U.S. Trans Survey (USTS) released on June 11 show a “snapshot” of transgender Americans’ lives. More that 92,000 people — with over 84,000 of those being adults ...

A person drives their motorcycle with a Pride flag in the Kansas City Pride Community Alliance’s KC Pride parade in June 2023. Kansas City’s transgender community is sandwiched between two states ...

I proclaimed my identity as a transgender woman in October 2020. Not surprisingly, that involved a considerable amount of anxiety even though I was a tenured professor who is white, nondisabled, and ...

Everyone in 2022 America has an opinion on transgender issues; news outlets with incendiary headlines have made sure of that. Enter Abigail Favale, professor at the University of Notre Dame's McGrath ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — This year’s Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), an event that celebrates the international transgender community, comes during a time of heightened legislative attacks against the ...

Each year, from Nov. 13. to Nov. 19, we observe Transgender Awareness Week. It is a time to raise visibility, share stories, and stand in solidarity with the transgender community. The week reminds us ...

Donnie Cianciotto never thought of himself as an activist. Instead, the founding direction of Musical Mayhem, has always been about theater and music. Cianciotto is a born entertainer, but then ...

This article was first published on NerdWallet.com. If your sex assigned at birth doesn’t align with your gender identity, it could feel upsetting, awkward or confusing to answer questions about ...

When M.L. walks the halls of her Riverside high school, the fact that her life is the subject of a swirling national debate is never far from mind. It's spelled out on the T-shirts of kids all around ...