transgender students

A GOP candidate has roiled the primary race for Kentucky governor with a comment that if she's elected, “we will not have transgenders in ourschool system,” angering LGBTQ advocates in a state that has enacted laws limiting the rights of transgender youth. Former U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft made the comment during a telephone town hall Monday.

Kentucky's Democratic governor issued an election-year veto Friday of a Republican bill aimed at regulating the lives of transgender youths that includes banning access to gender-affirming health care and restricting the bathrooms they can use.

Students at two Lexington high schools held walkouts to protest anti-LGBTQ+ bills filed by Kentucky lawmakers. WUKY’s Karyn Czar reports.

The Kentucky Senate passed a bill Thursday allowing teachers to refuse to refer to transgender students by their preferred pronouns — a proposal that was touted as protecting free-speech rights in classrooms but denounced by a lawmaker whose transgender son died recently.

Republican lawmakers in Kentucky have advanced a bill allowing teachers to misgender their transgender students. They plunged into the culturewar issue despite pleas to resist doing so from a colleague whose transgender son died.

A pre-filed bill limiting transgender girls' and women's participation in school sports in Kentucky could run afoul of Title IX, according to the latest…

Gender identity is at the center of two bills recently filed by Republican lawmakers in Kentucky. One introduces new rules for high school and college…

Kentucky Republican leaders have tamped down expectations surrounding contentious “religious freedom” and transgender bathroom legislation in the weeks…

Many communities in the commonwealth have moved to protect LGBT residents by enacting fairness ordinances, but one well-known Kentucky gay rights advocate…

Governor Matt Bevin is applauding a Supreme Court decision halting a federal judge’s ruling on bathroom policy for transgender students. The move could…