LGBTQ

Marginalized groups can go through their day on high alert, leading to physical and mental health problems, says researcher Lisa Diamond of the University of Utah.

Past remarks on LGBTQ issues and same-sex marriage made by Jeffrey R. Holland, an elder with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, have some students upset about the university's choice.

Lawmakers passed a record 575 bills this session. Democrats, however, felt like the session was historic for the wrong reasons.

Lawmakers have only 45 days to write, debate and pass laws each year in Utah. The last couple of days of the session are always a mad rush of legislation.

The Human Rights Campaign says at least 150 bills targeting transgender people have been introduced this year — including gender-affirming care bans for minors that have been enacted in South Dakota and Utah.

The Utah State Board of Education asked lawmakers to put a pause on new “sensitive materials” legislation since last year’s law is still so fresh.

The experience of Utah teenagers is in line with new national data from the CDC, though Utah’s lawmakers are focusing on social media as a root cause.

Lawmakers front-loaded some of the most controversial legislation at the beginning of the session.

While their motivations are different, the political polar opposites were able to both agree to support a bill that codifies a ban on conversion talk therapy.

The Republican state senator believes parental rights trump a student’s right to privacy.

Utah lawmakers moved swiftly this session to ban gender-affirming care for minors — and the governor signed it the next day.

Gov. Spencer Cox, who had not taken a public position on the transgender care measure, signed it a day after the Legislature sent it to his desk.