transgender youth

Michigan Public’s Sarah Cwiek discusses how Trump administration policy could affect U.S.-produced steel. Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor consider updating their zoning laws to allow more population density. A Michigan mom talks about her son’s experience coming out as transgender. And a brief segment about observing flight paths up north.

Hormone therapy and other types of gender-affirming care for transgender minors remain legal in the state, even as the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ban in Tennessee.

Bills that passed in the Michigan House Thursday would ban transgender athletes from girls’ school sports. Opponents say that further harms already-marginalized students.

The Legislature debates a bill package around transgender youth in sports. Then, one person’s journey to become the first person to kayak around the Great Lakes. Plus, the impact of the EPA delaying setting guidelines for PFAS.

Michigan Republicans are targeting gender-affirming care for transgender minors in a pair of bill packages introduced in the state House and Senate last week.

LGBTQ youth have long had high rates of depression, anxiety and suicide attempts. But current politics aren't helping, according to a survey by the Trevor Project.

Corewell Health has lifted its pause on new hormone therapy treatments for patients under nineteen.

Discrimination against trans people in health care is a long-standing issue. Recently, a trans teenager was denied ADHD treatment at a Catholic medical clinic in Ann Arbor.

Allegations of a Catholic medical clinic denying care for a transgender girl, a new podcast series covering the disappearance of gay Black men in Hollywood, the upcoming sale of the Toonerville Trolley and Tahquamenon Falls Riverboat Tours, and an interview with the oldest chicken in the world.

For the past year, residents in Allendale, Mich., have been debating whether to include LGBTQ+ people and perspectives in the school district's sex education program and anti-bullying campaign.