Amy Harmon

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Amy Harmon

The Supreme Court on Wednesday handed to the states control over whether young people should have access to treatments for gender transition, preserving a patchwork of rules that has emerged across the country over the last five years. Since 2021, states have split nearly evenly over whether to prohibit or protect access to puberty blockers and hormone therapies for transgender adolescents. Like the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Amy Harmon

The Supreme Court’s decision upholding a Tennessee law that denies puberty blockers and hormone therapies to transgender youth traces its roots to the spring of 2021. That’s when Arkansas became to pass a law prohibiting gender-transition treatments for minors. Alabama followed in 2022. Tennessee’s ban was part of a coordinated deluge: Twenty-five states have now enacted laws that restrict doctors from providing puberty blockers, hormone therapies or surgery to transgender minors.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Matina Stevis-Gridneff |Chris Cameron |Amy Harmon |Sapna Maheshwari

June 18, 2025, 1:30 a.m. ETReporting from Kananaskis, AlbertaWorld leaders at the Group of 7 summit in Kananaskis, Canada, on Monday.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Amy Harmon

A federal judge in Boston granted class-action status to transgender and nonbinary Americans on Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging a U.S. State Department policy that requires passports to reflect only the holder’s sex recorded on their original birth certificate. The order extends a preliminary injunction blocking the State Department from enforcing the policy against six plaintiffs to apply to all class members who apply for or update passports while the case proceeds.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Leo Dominguez |Amy Harmon |Heather Knight

The president's moves affecting L.G.B.T.Q. people were on the minds of attendees, but there was no stopping the party. The beats from D.J.s thrummed. Brass bands boomed. Bars and restaurants bustled. Sequins, feathers and fans that opened with a thwack were everywhere. And to organizers' relief, a cold morning rain ceased just in time for Saturday's WorldPride parade in Washington, D.C., making way for a sticky heat that seemed to rise off every surface. Soon, the air smelled like sunscreen.