The U.S. House handily approved the annual defense policy bill Wednesday, despite late opposition from Democrats over a provision that bans military health insurance coverage for service members’ children seeking transgender care.

Lawmakers passed the historically bipartisan package 241-180. In the end, 81 Democrats supported the bill, and 16 Republicans voted against it. The measure now heads to the Senate.

Attorneys for the teens suing the state over its new anti-transgender sports law said they plan to object in federal court to dismissing state Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut as a defendant.

On Friday, the state asked U.S. District Court Chief Judge Landya McCafferty to remove Edelblut from the lawsuit brought by the families of Parker Tirrell and Iris Turmelle. Lawyers on both sides filed a joint motion Wednesday to extend the deadline for the plaintiffs to object from Dec. 20 to Jan. 10 to accommodate tight schedules during the holiday season.

The sky was already dark when people began to gather by the Franklin Pierce statue in front of the State House in downtown Concord Wednesday evening.  Jessica Goff passed out electric candles while another volunteer set up 30 jars on the granite step, placing a candle in each and a small card with a portrait and a description leaning against the front.  

Each jar represented a transgender person who had been murdered in the past year.

Two lawsuits about transgender girl athletes — one challenging a state ban at schools and the other on the right to protest their participation on girls teams — face federal court hearings in New Hampshire on Thursday.

With this week’s election of Donald Trump as president and Kelly Ayotte as New Hampshire’s governor, we want to let everyone know that 603 Equality is still here, advocating for the rights and well-being of the LGBTQIA+ community in our state. We have not, and will not, give up the fight.

Cannon has a message for the state’s transgender community: “Don’t panic. There is another day. We did make some big strides over the last couple of years.

“The big thing for the transgender community is they’re not alone,” she added. “They’ve got a lot of people here who will stand up and fight. It’s not over.”

The elections have tightened across the United States, and anti-trans ads have become a major part of the 2024 campaign cycle. As such, the risk has substantially raised for nationwide laws targeting transgender people in the coming years for both youth and adults.

For states, the state of Texas has been upgraded to Do Not Travel, only the second state to receive such a recommendation. This comes as Odessa, Texas becomes the first city in the nation to pass a $10,000 bounty on transgender people inside of bathrooms.

A study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics finds that transgender teenagers who have pursued medical interventions like puberty blockers and hormones are highly satisfied with their care.

“Regret was very rare,” says lead author Kristina Olson, a psychology professor at Princeton University.

It’s the latest research from the TransYouth Project, which Olson started in 2013, when transgender youth was a fairly obscure research area, far from the political limelight.

In August, the Kearsarge Regional School Board took up a thorny question: How should it comply with a new law barring transgender girls from middle and high school sports?

Earlier that summer, Gov. Chris Sununu had signed the law, House Bill 1205, which required that schools separate their sports teams into male, female, and coed teams, and that they allow only kids who were born biologically female to join female sports teams.

Earlier this year, state lawmakers passed bills restricting the rights of transgender youth in New Hampshire. In a new memoir, a mother describes how anti-trans sentiment from her neighbors in Gilford and state lawmakers pushed her family out of their hometown and eventually the state.

A staunch advocate of reproductive freedom, Michelle Cilley Foisy is doing everything in her power to help change hearts and minds in New Hampshire.

A mother of six, Foisy has testified against several anti-trans laws that have been brought before the Statehouse, and also spoken out in favor of the right to abortion care.

A federal judge is allowing Parker Tirrell, a transgender teenager, to continue playing high school soccer for two weeks as she weighs whether to take broader action against a new state law that bars transgender girls from playing girls’ sports. 

Here’s what it was like for a kid to have the support of her mother and her medical team as she went through gender-affirming care in New Hampshire.

More than 100 transgender residents and allies rallied outside the State House on Sunday night to send a message to Gov. Chris Sununu: In New Hampshire, it's "Live free or die" unless you are trans.

New Hampshire residents gathered in front of the statehouse Wednesday morning to urge Gov. Chris Sununu to veto four recently passed bills that would curb rights for LGBTQ+ people.

Advocates Call For Sununu to Immediately Veto All Bills That Would Set Back LGBTQ Rights

Advocates Call For Sununu to Immediately Veto Bills That Would Set Back LGBTQ Rights

Advocates thank NH State Senators, Ask Them to Apply Same Logic to House Bill 396

Advocates detail harmful nature of these bills and urge all NH House members to oppose them