A potentially epic clash over transgender rights took shape Monday when North Carolina and the federal government sued each other over the state's new bathroom law.
Legislation has been proposed in states across the country to protect those who -- due to religious beliefs -- decline to employ or serve certain people.
Teams could pull out of scheduled NCAA events this spring because of new state laws in North Carolina, Mississippi and Tennessee while the sport's governing body's demands for discrimination-free environments at the places where its events are held won't take effect until the fall.
The Food and Drug Administration's latest anti-smoking campaign takes aim at young adults in the LGBT community, who officials say are nearly twice as likely to use tobacco as their peers.
As the saying says: When you gotta go, you gotta go. I heard from a concerned parent and a trans woman who's been through a tough transition. "I just want to go live my life."
People in an Alabama city who use public restrooms intended for a gender other than what is listed on their birth certificate will be punished under an ordinance officials passed this week.
Rhetorical skirmishes continued Tuesday in North Carolina over a law limiting protections for LGBT people, as Democrats criticized a Republican's plea to "keep our state straight" a day after dozens were arrested and dueling demonstrations were held for and against the law.
A day of protests and arrests around North Carolina's statehouse marked what's likely to be weeks of impassioned debate over a law limiting protections for LGBT people.
"There are parents as well as young girls concerned about the impact that this policy will have on their privacy and safety," a Liberty Counsel representative said.
Jeff Deminski says he can see all sides of the debate over bathroom and locker room use for transgender students. But he still has to come down on one side or the other himself.