
A federal court blocked an Obamacare mandate that would compel doctors to perform gender reassignment surgery.
An order of Catholic nuns challenged the mandate under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, arguing that it forces doctors to violate their consciences and medical judgment. A North Dakota district court judge ruled on Tuesday that nuns and other religious health care providers were harmed by the law.





By age 14, Eva became convinced she was a transgender boy. By 16, she had come out to her teachers and classmates.


Americans found themselves divided into two camps this week — the mildly skeptical and the fervently disinterested — when the actress formally known as Ellen Page announced she was a boy called Elliot and, in fact, always has been a boy.