A 17-year-old transgender boy from the Chicago suburbs was in the process of scheduling surgery at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, but that stopped after Lurie paused surgeries in light of an executive order from the White House. Manuel Martinez/WBEZ hide caption
Pastor Charles McKinzie sings with the choir at Grace United Methodist Church in Winfield, Kansas. Rose Conlon/NPR hide caption
Sylvia Rivera leads an ACT-UP march past New York's Union Square Park in June 1994. Justin Sutcliffe/AP hide caption
People celebrate outside a Seattle federal courthouse after a second federal judge paused President Trump's order against gender-affirming care for youth on Friday. Manuel Valdes/AP hide caption
A National Park Service ranger places rainbow flags on the fence at the Stonewall National Monument in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan, New York City, on June 19, 2019. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump holds up the "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order after signing it in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5. It became the latest in a series of executive orders focused on transgender rights, many of which also center on curbing "gender ideology." Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House, Jan. 30. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has 30 days to present a plan on how to implement President Trump's executive order on transgender people in the military. Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Admiral Rachel L. Levine, a pediatrician by training, has been leading the Public Health Service during the Biden administration. She's pictured in a conference room at HHS headquarters in Washington, D.C. Maansi Srivastava for NPR hide caption
Openly transgender Rep. Zooey Zephyr, pictured at the Montana State Capitol in Helena, Mont., in 2023, was reelected last month. This week, her colleagues debated a rule that would have blocked her from the women's restroom at the Capitol. Tommy Martino/AP hide caption
Former President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a campaign rally in Atlanta on Oct. 15. With the election in its closing weeks, Trump and other Republican candidates have been focusing many of their campaign ads around the issue of transgender rights. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption
Veronica, 17, drove with her mother nearly four hours from her home in Iowa to visit a doctor in Minneapolis in September. Iowa banned gender-affirming care for youth in March 2023.
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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly speaks about the necessity to expand Medicaid in the state during a rally on March 6 in Topeka. Kelly on Friday vetoed a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Evert Nelson/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP hide caption