Other Alabama universities still name sexual orientation and gender identity in their policies. The state’s flagship system no longer does.

Beyond the binaries of gay and straight, male and female lies a broad spectrum of identities. (All are real and valid, despite what certain executive orders or conservative talking points would have ...

Over the past three years, many Americans learned more about epidemiology than they ever knew before. From Covid-19 to mpox to polio, a new generation of citizen scientists is now joining trained ...

Questions about sexual orientation, gender identity and changes to queries about race and ethnicity are on track to be asked in the most comprehensive survey of American life by 2027, U.S. Census ...

Faculty groups suing Texas Tech Chancellor Brandon Creighton and the university system’s regents asked a federal judge Friday to temporarily block classroom restrictions they say censor professors who ...

Bob covers the money in health care, focusing on health insurance and hospitals. His stories delve into Medicare Advantage, opaque prescription drug benefits, and how much executives actually make. He ...

School board members debated whether the policy changes would impact LGBTQ+ students and school employees.

Background and Goal: Federal health surveys are a key source for understanding health needs in the U.S., including the needs of people in LGBTQ+ community. This methodology paper characterized the ...

The University of Alabama System has removed sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression from its ...

Agencies were ordered to take down any “outward facing media” that could be interpreted as promoting a view of gender no longer in line with U.S. government policy. Researchers began sharing warnings ...

The world has come a long way in recognizing the diversity of human sexual experience. In 1948, it was revolutionary for biologist Alfred Kinsey to describe sexual orientation as a continuum (from ...

In bringing up “Q,” I am not referring to the politically-based/conspiracy theory/scratch-my-head phenomenon. Nor am I referring to the “Q” in LGBTQIA+ as ...