Kansas has become the latest state to ban gender-affirming care for minors. The Republican-controlled Legislature voted ...

The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument website on ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking broad access to patient medical records as he battles a Dallas doctor under the ...

Eight Venezuelan gang members have been indicted in connection with sex trafficking women from South America to Tennessee, ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating two more school districts over trans athletes’ possible participation in ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promised increased education funding while threatening teachers with discipline in an approach that rankles some educators.

Extremism experts say a now-familiar playbook to scapegoat transgender people in the wake of high-profile tragedies is part ...

The league announced Wednesday that it will be playing a game in 2026 in Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, a venue ...

The LGBTQ+ advocacy organization GLAAD, which tracks incidents, warned that threats against the queer community are likely to ...

All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the following conditions: Without the support of our Christian church in the Houston suburbs, my daughter ...

More than 400 additional Texas National Guard troops arrived at the Texas-Mexico border on Monday. Some of those troops left from the U.S. Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth Monday ...

"Me and you never had this conversation." In June 2023, Texas passed the Save Women's Sports Act that bans trans athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports, and only allows students to ...