After decades of creating laws that assumed “sex” and “gender” were synonymous, lawmakers across the country are taking another look at how states define those terms. Scientific and legal ...

A federal lawsuit filed against President Donald Trump’s executive order defining sex by biology could threaten women’s ...

On Sunday, The New York Times reported that the Trump administration plans to define “gender” based on people’s external genitalia, as part of their larger efforts to roll back protections for ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that would define who is considered a man or a woman under state law, saying it must be based on reproductive systems and not ...

Ideologues have long worked behind the scenes to weaponize Child Protective Services in the states. This includes accusing parents of “abuse” if they fail to affirm their child’s discordant “gender ...

A proposed bill in the Georgia legislature would strip protections based on sexual and gender identity, define gender for the purposes of the bill as a person’s sex assigned at birth, and base access ...

In a recent column, I argued that we should stop using the word “trans” or “transgender.” I showed that these terms can be used to mean eight types of people. Using one term to mean so many different ...

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Gender nonconforming individuals do not comply with societal stereotypes of how they “should” look or behave based on binary – male and female – gender roles. This article will explain what the term ...

This year, 17 state legislatures sought to narrowly define “sex” or “gender” in state law as based solely on biological characteristics. In Utah, one became law. Although they’re sometimes used ...