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A week after a Mesa Public Schools board member sued the district over its transgender guidelines, several teachers criticized the lawsuit.

Boys who consider themselves females are allowed to use girls’ bathrooms in at least some Tempe Union schools – including Desert Vista – under little-known guidelines district administration formulated in

Arizona’s top education official is continuing to lash out at trans inclusive policies, issuing a statement advising public schools across the state to keep school facilities, like bathrooms and locker rooms, separated by biological sex.

This weekend celebrated the 20th anniversary of Rainbows Festival, a celebration of pride and resilience.

Harrison knew when he was five that he was different, but he didn’t have the words to explain why he belonged in the boy’s restroom, and not forced into the girl’s. When he came out as trans in middle school, his classmates reacted with threats of assault. 

Arizona legislators are beginning to file bill proposals for the upcoming legislative session and one of the first seeks to restrict the use of students’ preferred pronouns in schools.

One of the first bills proposed for the upcoming Arizona session seeks to restrict the use of students’ preferred pronouns in schools. 

One bans gender-affirming surgery for transgender youth. The other bans transgender girls from participating in girls' sports.

The Arizona legislation is part of a nationwide wave of Republican bills and actions targeting young people who are transgender.

Dana has known she’s a girl since she could talk, but Republican senators want to force her and other trans kids to grow up in pain and put her doctors in jail for providing medical treatments aimed at combating gender dysphoria.