1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (561+ words) Protestors rally for healthcare for transgender people at a march in June 2025 in Manhattan. NPR has learned the Trump administration shelved a plan to cut off all Medicare and Medicaid funding to any hospital that provided gender-affirming care to minors....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (34+ words) The dynamics of long-time gay couple Jesse and Norman are completely upended when Norman is abducted by aliens in Steven Rowley's comic novel "Take Me With You." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe....

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1149+ words) Brandon Wright, who is suing over his termination from the Department of Homeland Security following his meeting with a James O'Keefe operative. O'Keefe is a self styled journalist who has been running sting operations against federal workers and contractors with…...

7+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1298+ words) Transgender rights supporters rallied at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington, DC, after the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors in June 2025. Mariam Zuhaib/AP hide caption The Trump administration celebrated a recent…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (149+ words) Texas A&M University adopted a rule last November banning the teaching of “race and gender ideology,” which includes Plato’s 2,400-year-old “Symposium.” Professor Martin Peterson explains how he thinks the move will hurt his philosophy students.Then, Bob Weir, a…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (279+ words) Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz (right) will announce new restrictions to gender-affirming care for minors Thursday. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption The Trump administration is expected to announce several…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (283+ words) Admiral Rachel L. Levine, pictured at HHS headquarters last year, led the Public Health Corps during the Biden administration. Her official portrait was changed during the government shutdown to her previous name. Maansi Srivastava for NPR hide caption Adm. Rachel Levine's…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1075+ words) Protestors gathered outside Children's Hospital Los Angeles in February after President Trump's executive order to stop federal funding for hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to children. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption Access to gender-affirming care for transgender…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago   (157+ words) As a justice on the Supreme Court, Anthony Kennedy wrote some big opinions.He was appointed by President Reagan, and most often voted with conservatives.But his vote was often pivotal in controversial cases about hot-button issues like same-sex marriage…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago   (335+ words) Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who stepped down from the court in 2018, has written a book about his life on the court and off. It's far more revealing than most books written by justices. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy stepped…...