In some ways, Rainbow Day Camp is very ordinary. Kids arrive with a packed lunch, make friendship bracelets, play basketball, sing songs and get silly. But it is also extraordinarily unique, from the ...

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After clinic restrictions and closures earlier this summer, youth and families seeking gender-affirming health care have found themselves in a new reality of more roadblocks and longer wait times. How ...

Our Love You for You series features conversations between trans and nonbinary youth from across California and the people in their lives who love and mentor them: parents, grandparents, siblings and ...

It’s hard to underestimate the impact that having supportive parents can make on LGBTQ+ young people. For transgender children, who, studies have shown, are disproportionately at risk of attempting ...

Transgender and nonbinary kids have been in the headlines a lot lately, and recent Trump administration policies have only intensified this focus. But we rarely hear these young people tell their own ...

When the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’ Center for Transyouth Health and Development closed over the summer, it sent a shockwave through an overworked system. The families of nearly 3,000 CHLA ...