Rep. Tom Hooker last week introduced a bill that would outlaw the use of public funds to pay for sex reassignment surgery for incarcerated people, among others. Hooker didn't bother checking with the ...

A new analysis of healthcare equality by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation found that the vast majority of U.S. healthcare facilities don’t have fully inclusive policies toward lesbian, gay, ...

Sports is the avenue to equality, believes Amazin L Thi, a Vietnamese sports and LGBT human rights advocate. The award-winning activist, who is the founder and chief of smiles at Amazin L Thi ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan, D-WI; David Cicilline, D-RI; Sean Patrick Maloney, D-NY; Jared Polis, D-CO; and Mark Takano, D-CA, Co-Chairs of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, sent a ...

A transgender Johannesburg Correctional Centre inmate has turned to the Equality Court to enforce her rights to express her gender identity and to be addressed as a woman using the "she/her" pronoun.

Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) will appear before the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg, sitting as the Equality Court, on Friday to represent a transgender woman challenging what she deems the ...