Gender

The new race and gender policy has garnered condemnation from educational rights advocates, including the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which sent a letter to the board of regents earlier this week arguing that the policy amounted to censorship.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Dr. May Lau last year, alleging she provided gender-affirming care to minors in violation of state law. She was one of three doctors sued after Senate Bill 14 went into effect.

The University of Texas System recently announced it would be reviewing "courses on gender identity" at all 14 of its academic and health institutions.

The attorney general's office is challenging the validity of a district judge's order that limits how much information PFLAG, a national LGBTQ advocacy group, has to hand over about Texas families seeking gender-affirming care for children.

Senate Bill 1999 would bar punishment against public employees and students who misgender their peers. The bill now heads to the Texas House for consideration.

The teen said they have felt frustrated and helpless since learning their anonymized medical records may be used in Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit against their doctor.

The names and birthdates of patients at the center of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit against Dr. M. Brett Cooper were mistakenly released in records provided to KERA News.

The agreements, announced by Attorney General Ken Paxton Feb. 4, are among the latest developments in a case that alleges the doctors prescribed hormones to minors after the state's ban took effect.

Six months after Trinity Valley School families learned about the arrest of a former piano teacher for indecency with a child, the Fort Worth private school is facing a new lawsuit in part related to how administrators and trustees handled that case internally.

A case surrounding Tennessee's ban on certain gender-affirming care for minors could set precedents for other states that have bans in place, including Texas, where three doctors are being sued for allegedly violating state law.

This is the third doctor — and second at UT Southwestern — Paxton has sued as the state is "cracking down" on health care providers who allegedly violate the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

North Texas voters who are part of the LGBTQ+ community told KERA their top issues include access to gender-affirming care for minors and abortion.