LGBTQ and Transgender Rights

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-07-16 — A bill to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance coverage that provide benefits for sex-rejecting procedures to provide benefits for items and services to address the harms caused by sex-rejecting procedures and to restore healthy human form and functioning, to the greatest extent possible.: cross-connection with gender-related-medical-care-coverage-rights: Proposed insurance-parity mandate on restorative/detransition care intersects with broader transgender rights coverage debates; the bill’s terminology (‘sex-rejecting procedures’) is contested and reflects a distinct framing of gender-transition medicine. (novelty: 3)
2026-07-10 — World Professional Association for Transgender Health v. Federal Trade Commission: July 10, 2026: Chief Judge Boasberg (D.D.C.) issued an opinion in World Professional Association for Transgender Health v. FTC, a novel dispute over FTC treatment of transgender healthcare practices tied to WPATH guidelines; specific holding not yet characterized from available abstract. (novelty: 3)