Texas families and health care providers sued the state over Senate Bill 14, which restricts transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming care. The groups are requesting an injunction from a state district court judge before the law goes into effect on Sept. 1.

Transgender rights are taking center stage in North Carolina as the GOP-controlled General Assembly plans votes Wednesday seeking to override the governor’s veto of legislation banning gender-affirming health care for minors.

Texas has not claimed authority to erect barriers on Mexico's side of the river. This survey complicates its defense of anti-migrant measures.

Around half of Native American health care facilities in Oklahoma don’t provide emergency contraception, a Medill News Service investigation found.

These efforts highlight the falsity, if not the cynicism, of the Dobbs majority’s promise that the question would be returned to the democratic process.

A group founded by the conservative activist instrumental in the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision rejecting affirmative action in collegiate admissions on Wednesday sued an Atlanta-based venture capital fund that supports Black women who own small businesses, accusing it of unlawful racial discrimination.

Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood, and others are urging the Department of Health and Human Services to expand a proposal protecting reproductive health information from law enforcement to also shield information related to gender-affirming care.

Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed an executive order targeting transgender rights in Oklahoma.

A Democratic senator has refiled a bill that’s meant to lay the groundwork for federal marijuana legalization. Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) introduced the legislation—titled the Preparing Regulators Effectively for a Post-Prohibition Adult-Use Regulated Environment Act (PREPARE) Act—on Thursday. The incremental reform would direct the attorney general to create a commission charged with making recommendations on […]