A group of transgender veterans filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to pay for and provide them gender-affirming surgeries.

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.

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

“You can harm someone at whatever pace you want, but you're still harming them,” said Harvard psychiatrist Alex Keuroghlian.

Investigation of gender-affirming care may be unconstitutional

Five Oklahoma families with transgender children and a doctor who treats transgender youths are challenging the state’s recently enacted ban on gender-affirming health care for minors, arguing the new law discriminates against transgender people and violates the right to parental autonomy guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. In a lawsuit filed late Tuesday in federal court, the families of...