With Lee’s win, an American has won the last five Olympic titles in the women's all-around gymnastics competition.
How the world perceives transgender athletes will depend on how news outlets portray them.
Still, legal experts say that an unprecedented brief filed in support of Arkansas' law signals that battles over legislation targeting trans youth are far from over.
Avant-garde’s win follows a longer history of Black girls reaching the highest level of spelling competitions, and facing discrimination when they got to the top.
Brianna McNeal, an Olympic champion whose recovery from an abortion inadvertently launched an investigation, told The 19th's Orion Rummler that past interviews on the subject had made her too afraid to say everything she wanted to say.
Sha’Carri Richardson, Brianna McNeal and Naomi Osaka were barred from competition or fined after choosing how to handle their health. Experts say the system isn’t built for them.
Even as Republican-controlled statehouses endanger trans rights, a different line of conservative thinking is bolstering them in the courts.
The Biden administration wants to address employment discrimination, homelessness and other issues that have a disproportionate effect on transgender people.
Transgender and intersex Americans will have the power to identify their own gender on travel documents without providing medical documentation by the end of this year, an administration official said.
The justices declined to hear a Virginia school board's appeal, agreeing with a lower court that schools cannot bar transgender students from using bathrooms that match their gender identity.