This story was originally published in Uncloseted Media, an LGBTQ focused investigative news outlet. In Trump’s new America, bathrooms have become politicized battlegrounds. What may have seemed like ...

With the U.S. Supreme Court poised to preserve state laws that forbid trans students from joining girls sports teams, ...

An anti-trans bathroom bill that took effect in Texas on December 4th is proving complicated to enforce, something trans advocates have known all along would be the case. On December 6, transgender ...

Nearly a decade after North Carolina passed its controversial “bathroom ban,” sparking nationwide backlash and corporate boycotts of the state, transgender bathroom restrictions have made a resurgence ...

No, you’re not experiencing déjà vù. We’ve been here before. After similar legislation failed to pass in 2017, the Texas GOP’s bathroom bill redux has died in the Texas House as this year’s session ...

Transgender Texans, activists and even a constable made similar arguments over and over again on Friday: The state’s latest bathroom bill makes no one safer. Dozens of people testified against the ...

ROCHESTER — Ten years ago, Rochester resident Michael Hughes, a transgender man, set off a social media firestorm when he posted a selfie of himself in a women’s bathroom. At the time, debate was ...

Rep. Bill Wesley, R-Ravenna, confronted a drag queen in the state Capitol near the women’s restroom. Rep. TJ Roberts, R-Burlington After telling a transgender woman last week not to use a women’s ...

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NAACP lawyer Antonio Ingram speaks out against anti-trans bills on the steps of the Texas Capitol Credit: Screenshot from livestream on the Equality Texas YouTube channel. Black activists gathered on ...