EDGE Providence

Mel Wymore, ex-PTA chair and founder of a roster of local organizations, could be the first openly transgender officeholder in the nation’s biggest city and one of only a handful ever in the U.S.

The California Senate Education Committee OK’d a bill that provides crucial support for transgender students, allowing them to fully participate in all school activities, programs and facilities.

The Boston Police Department officials have revealed new policies that aim to make transgender criminals suspects feel more inclusive.

The sponsor of an Arizona bill targeting transgendered people who want to use bathrooms of the gender they identify with says he’s giving up on the issue this Legislative session.

A transgender teen running for prom king is upset that his school principal will only allow him to run for prom queen. Fellow students in York, Pa., are siding with him in the dispute.

For the first time in Pakistan’s history, transgender people are running as candidates. The development marks a sign of progress for transgender people in this conservative country, where they have long been met by abuse.

A transgender woman was banned from a western Idaho grocery store after customers complained she used the women’s restroom, police in Lewiston said.

A transgender Arizona man whose divorce request was rejected after his marriage was declared invalid plans to keep trying to get his 9-year union dissolved.

An Arizona House panel late Wednesday approved a measure targeting transgendered people who want to use bathrooms of the gender they identify with, voting along party lines to advance a bill that protects business owners who bar the practice.

Canada’s House of Commons has passed a bill that would make it illegal to discriminate against transgender people.