Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getting ready to go under the knife can be scary—even when it’s for a procedure you’ve wanted for as long as you can remember. If ...

Teen transgender reality star and activist Jazz Jennings says getting gender confirmation surgery months ago was "like a dream." "This is a moment that I had always envisioned and just experiencing it ...

"It was like a dream. It was. This is a moment that I had always envisioned and just experiencing it was so surreal. I was like, 'I can't believe this is happening,'" Jennings, who started ...

Jazz, 18, who was assigned male at birth but identifies as female, said her surgery was "like a dream" during an interview with ABC News Monday. Now, she says, she’s had it and she’s thrilled with the ...

Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough is moving to make gender confirmation surgery available to transgender veterans through Veterans Affairs health care coverage, according to a VA department ...

Adree Edmo – Photo: National Center for Lesbian Rights. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the state of Idaho must foot the bill for gender confirmation surgery for a transgender ...

American trans activist and AIDS educator Sister Mary Elizabeth Clark (also known as Joanna Michelle Clark), a transgender woman who had served in the U.S. Navy for over 10 years before undergoing ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough about the VA's recent decision to offer gender confirmation surgery to... Veterans Affairs Secretary On Gender Confirmation ...

BOISE (AP) — Legislation that would make it illegal to perform gender confirmation surgery on juveniles was introduced in the Idaho House State Affairs Committee on Tuesday.