Transgender

The school district requested a change of venue to a federal court in Peoria. Angela Sutton claims administrators repeatedly ignored concerns about her transgender child being bullied at school.

The team has a network of practitioners in Illinois who don’t rely on payments from the federal government, which threatens to cut funding to gender-affirming care providers.

This term’s Supreme Court decision that allows states to ban gender-affirming healthcare for adolescent transgender minors is causing fear, frustration, and resolve in the LGBTQ+ community in Bloomington-Normal.

Protesters gathered to spread word about the targeting of LGBTQIA+ individuals by government policies.

Tere left Venezuela to start a new life in the U.S. She has a home, a job and access to gender affirming care. But she worries it could all disappear.

Republican state lawmakers have signaled they want to ban transgender girls from competing on girls school sports teams in Illinois.

Planned Parenthood of Illinois hosted a storytelling celebration Saturday in honor of Transgender Day of Visibility 2025. The event featured stories and art from the Bloomington-Normal transgender community and beyond.

In a statement released Wednesday, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and a coalition of 14 other attorneys general said institutions offering gender-affirming would continue to receive federal dollars, regardless of executive order.

Rep. Mary Miller is a proponent for parental involvement in K-12 public education and has backed multiple bills aimed at rolling back the Biden administration's push for more inclusive transgender policies.

WGLT talks to Brie Byers, a board-member-at-large for the ISU Queer Coalition, about the prospects of a second Trump administration. Transgender Day of Remembrance is Nov. 21.