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Cardiff and Vale University Health Board halted all referrals, assessments, and scheduled surgeries for the Welsh Gender Service after data showed higher referral rates than England — a pause that includes patients already admitted for care.
A divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled the Trump administration can enforce a subpoena for a telehealth provider's patient records, rejecting a lower court's finding that the investigation was launched in bad faith.
A new HSE-commissioned survey on gender-affirming healthcare experiences closed August 21, part of an effort to design a new model of care. It's a small but real shift after years of trans patients being left out of the conversation.
Three bills that would restrict trans healthcare, documentation, and school speech cleared a first vote in March with far-right and governing-party support. Since then: silence from committee, and a drop in Portugal's rights ranking.
The Superior Court of Justice's Third Panel ruled that facial feminization procedures are a medically necessary part of gender-affirming care, not cosmetic extras — ordering a health insurer to cover a trans woman's surgery.
A federal class action, filed August 3 in Washington, challenges an OPM directive that stripped gender-affirming care coverage from health plans covering roughly 39,000 federal employees and their dependents.
Within days of each other, Missouri enacted a law forcing incarcerated trans people off their medication and Illinois signed three bills shielding gender-affirming care. The American map keeps splitting.
In Z.A. v. Blanche, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction barring the Justice Department from obtaining the identities and records of transgender minors treated at Stanford's children's hospital, calling the demand part of a 'bad-faith campaign' to intimidate providers.
A D.C. federal court certified a class of roughly 2,000 transgender people in federal prisons and ordered the Bureau of Prisons to keep providing hormone therapy and accommodations while their challenge to a Trump executive order proceeds.
A draft decree from Madrid would force every autonomous community to fund gender-affirming surgery, voice therapy, and mental-health support — closing the patchwork that has long forced trans Spaniards to travel for care.
The Texas Supreme Court dismissed the temporary injunctions that had blocked the state from investigating families of transgender minors as child abusers. The ruling is procedural — but it leaves the underlying policy intact and the next case wide open.
A federal judge in Oregon permanently blocked the December 2025 HHS declaration that shut down gender-affirming care programs nationwide, ruling that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had no authority to unilaterally rewrite medical standards of care.
Over 30 volunteers spent 10 days sewing an 800-square-metre trans pride flag, then unfurled it in a Brisbane park to demand Queensland reinstate gender-affirming care for trans youth.
In a striking reversal, Georgia's 2026 legislative session ended without a single anti-LGBTQ bill becoming law. Community organizing, coalition-building, and direct advocacy at the Capitol made the difference.
