minors

Many states are contemplating laws defining biological sex and gender, coinciding with Missouri lawmakers’ recent debates on a permanent ban on transgender procedures for minors. NTD spoke with Colin Wright, an evolutionary biologist and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, to discuss these latest updates.  

The Biden administration filed a petition with the Supreme Court on Monday to overturn Tennessee’s ban on gender transition procedures for minors. This move by the Department of Justice follows lower court decisions that allowed similar bans to progress in Tennessee and two other states earlier this summer. Lawyers for the DOJ argued that the […]

Judges in Texas and Missouri issued separate, contrasting rulings on Friday regarding whether people under 18 can receive certain gender transition procedures in the respective states. In Texas, a judge ruled against the state’s ban on gender transition procedures for minors, stopping it from taking effect next week as she continues to review amid an […]

Two abandoned unaccompanied minors from Guatemala were discovered by Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officials near the Texas border on July 3. The two minors, aged 8 and 11, told troopers they were abandoned by a female adult along the edge of the Rio Grande River at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, DPS spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez […]

Texas is set to join the ranks of at least 17 other states by prohibiting hormone therapies, puberty blockers, and sex change surgeries for minors. On Wednesday, the state Legislature passed Senate Bill 14 (pdf), sending it to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk for signing. The bill, which sailed through the GOP-controlled House (87–56) on […]

With a growing number of states taking action against gender transitioning for minors, Billboard Chris has been traveling around North America to speak out against it when he was recently violently assaulted during one of his protests. NTD recently has had a chance to speak to Billboard Chris to ask him about why he does […]

The Heritage Foundation’s senior research fellow Jay Richards tells NTD that he believes “gender-affirming care” for minors will end with major lawsuits.

A U.S. judge on March 31 blocked a Tennessee law that forbids drag shows being held while minors are present. “At this point, the court finds that the statute is likely both vague and overly-broad,” U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker, a Trump appointee, said in a 15-page ruling. Parker imposed a temporary restraining order that […]

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on Friday vetoed a bill that the state GOP said would have “protected our children by preventing minors from accessing life-altering sex change surgery and drugs.” The Republican-backed measure “allows too much government interference in personal health care issues and rips away the freedom of parents to make medical decisions for […]

Utah Governor Spencer Cox on Thursday signed two bills into law settling limits on social media use for minors—including requiring parental consent, making it the first U.S. state to do so. “We’re no longer willing to let social media companies continue to harm the mental health of our youth,” Cox, a Republican, said on Twitter. […]

Iowa has become the latest state to ban transgender procedures on minors after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law on March 22. Reynolds also signed into law a second bill banning transgender students from entering school bathrooms or changing rooms that do not correspond with their biological genders. Under the first bill, SF 538 (pdf), health […]

Mexican authorities have found 343 migrants, including 103 unaccompanied minors, in an abandoned freight truck container on the side of a highway, the authorities said Monday. The National Immigration Institute said the trailer was found Sunday night in the steamy Gulf coast state of Veracruz. It was on a route often used by smugglers to […]

Two of the Americans kidnapped in Northern Mexico have been found dead, and two are still alive, according to the regional governor. And multiple sources report the group of four friends was going there for one of them to have a “tummy tuck” surgery done. In Veracruz, Mexico, over a hundred unaccompanied minors were found […]

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) on Feb. 20 made an official statement outlining its stance on “gender-affirming care” for minor children. In its statement, the non-profit association warned of “unknown and unknowable long-term risks” it says are inherent to “gender-affirming care” in minors, adding that the consequences of gender transition surgery are irreversible. “Gender […]

South Dakota governor Kristi Noem signed a bill into law making cross-sex procedures for minors illegal. Jon Schweppe, the director of policy at the American principles project, an organization advocating for family rights, speaks on the issue.

Two teenage boys were shot dead and three more minors were wounded in a shootout at an Atlanta apartment complex Saturday that police said originated as a dispute online. Officers responded to the complex in the city’s southwest shortly after 5 p.m. Two victims were pronounced dead at the scene, and the others were hospitalized […]

Florida’s medical boards approved on Nov. 4 a new rule that prohibits minors from undergoing sex reassignment surgeries or receiving puberty blockers or hormone therapy.