Equality Utah

The latest Utah news for Thursday evening, March 31, 2022.

The new legislation allows transgender high school girls to compete if they have had one year of hormone therapy and changed the sex designation on their birth certificate.

Jeffrey R. Holland, an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said Brigham Young University faculty shouldn’t confuse empathy with advocacy when it comes to LGBTQ topics.

One suggestion was to require testosterone testing. Another was to beef up enforcement of an existing policy. The idea was to balance “preserving female sports” and making sure transgender kids don’t feel excluded.

Wednesday marked International Transgender Day of Visibility. It was a day of celebration for some trans advocates.

In the past few years, Utah has passed several pro-LGBTQ policies. This year, the Legislature considered two anti-trans bills that are both likely headed for defeat.

A host of medical experts has rejected the practice — aimed at changing a patient's sexual orientation — as "futile and destructive." In Utah, the ban took effect with a regulatory change Tuesday.

Two competing proposals dealing with the process of changing a person’s sex on legal documents were abandoned by Utah lawmakers on Thursday.The first, a…

A bill moving through the Utah legislature is supposed to set clear guidelines for courts when people request a gender change, but LGBT groups say it’s…