A 23-year-old convicted of raping or molesting as many as 15 children may walk free after serving under five years behind bars-simply because he's making a gender transition . The Iowa attorney general is reportedly no longer seeking to imprison Joseph Matthew Smith, who now goes by "Josie," because he identifies as a female and has been taking estrogen medication over the past two years.

The Arizona House of Representatives passed a controversial bill Tuesday that aims to ban transgender female athletes from participating in girls' school sports. If signed into law, the ban would apply to all students in the state through college.