Amy, Phillip and Max Hightower accept The Defender Award at the Dramatists Guild awards night May 6 in New York Phillip and Amy Hightower, parents of transgender Sherman High School senior Max ...

A Texas school district reversed a high school’s restrictions on a production of “Oklahoma!” after a transgender teen lost his role in the show, prompting backlash from the community. Sherman ...

A transgender Texas student was kicked out of the lead role of his high school musical after his principal introduced a new gender casting policy. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

A Texas superintendent voluntarily resigned Wednesday after a transgender student was removed and later reinstated in a high school production of “Oklahoma!” — a case that sparked nationwide outcry ...

During a school board meeting in Sherman, Tex., on Monday, 44-year-old Phillip Hightower stood at a podium to speak in support of his son, a transgender high school senior. Earlier this month, Max had ...

A transgender student in Texas who was cast as the lead in his high school’s musical suddenly lost out on the part when the district decided to implement a new policy that “only males can play males.” ...