Advocates for Youth strongly condemns the Texas Department of Public Safety rule forbidding transgender people from changing their driver’s license to accurately reflect their sex. Young people, along with a majority of all Americans, support transgender people’s right to live as who they are.

Advocates for Youth is disappointed by the recent Senate passage of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and remains steadfast in our opposition to this legislation, recognizing its potential to block young people from accessing critical and potentially life-saving resources, including sex education and sexual health materials. 

Sonya Massey called the police for help, and instead they murdered her. This horrific killing is yet another example why young people have called for the abolition of police - they do not make us safer, and all too often commit violence and harm against Black youth.

Today, the House voted to pass H.J.Res.165, which aims to undo the U.S. Department of Education’s recently published final rule strengthening Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination in federally-funded schools.

This week the Biden Administration issued a confusing statement opposing gender-affirming surgery for transgender youth, a departure from their public commitment to expanding access to the broad spectrum of health care options for transgender young people.

Everyone experiencing a health crisis should have access to life-saving health care, without political interference – including pregnant people who need an abortion. Today, the Supreme Court has refused to cede to the anti-abortion extremists who are willing to endanger the lives of pregnant people, even in dangerous medical emergencies.