Gender Identity

More than any other state, a majority of LGBTQ+ Florida teens and young adults have considered moving out of the state, according to a recent study.

Nine bills impacting the trans and nonbinary community have already been proposed in Florida and will be considered during the current state legislative session.

Colleges already have been returning to Betsy DeVos' 2020 rules since a federal judge in Kentucky overturned the Biden administration's Title IX rules. Florida also sued to block the rules in another jurisdiction.

California-based nonbinary journalist Nico Lang documents the lives of eight transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid teenagers across the United States, including two trans siblings in Pensacola.

The decision handed down on Monday cleared the way for Florida to prohibit transgender minors from being prescribed puberty blockers and hormonal treatments, even with their parents’ permission.

The law that was revived prohibits transgender minors from being prescribed puberty blockers and hormonal treatments, even with their parents’ permission.

Accounts spread through social media said officials at the college had sent a large collection of books from its recently shuttered gender studies program to a local landfill.

The new rule threatens the loss of insurance funds in an attempt to prevent discrimination based on sex, including gender identity. The judge wrote that state agencies faced "imminent injury" because of the rule.

The injunction by a federal judge applies in Alaska, Kansas, Utah and Wyoming, as well as a Stillwater, Oklahoma, middle school that has a student suing and to members of three groups fighting the rule.

Florida, three other states and four organizations challenged the Biden administration's addition of sexual orientation and gender identity to the landmark law that bars discrimination in education based on sex.

The State Board of Education approved the changes as Florida challenges a Biden administration rule that would help carry out Title IX.

The board's resolution defines sex as male or female, acknowledges the importance of single-sex bathrooms and directs the superintendent to consider no policy changes while legal challenges play out.