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Are Anti-Trans Measures Being Used as Republican “Ballot Candy”?

At a fundraiser in early January, Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo outright admitted to donors he wasn’t the most inspiring candidate. “I am...

05.05.2026 10

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Federal Judge Calls RFK Jr. an “Unsafe” Leader in Order Protecting Trans Youth Health Care

In a scathing ruling describing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as an “unserious” and “unsafe” leader, a federal...

21.04.2026 10

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Trump Is About to Drop a “Nuclear Weapon” on Trans Youth Health Care

Blair’s mom had been cautious when she first brought her 6-year-old to the LGBTQ clinic at Cleveland’s MetroHealth hospital, “trying to figure...

14.04.2026 6

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Top Architecture Firm Won’t Design More ICE Prisons After Employees Revolt

For three years, Andrew Osborne helped his bosses promote the idea that good design could make imprisonment more humane. As a public relations...

16.03.2026 30

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Supreme Court Battle Over Trans Athletes Is About So Much More Than Sports

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases brought by a transgender girl in West Virginia and a transgender woman in Idaho who argue they...

13.01.2026 10

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Trump Rewards MAGA Attack Dog Attorney General With FBI Post

When Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was sworn into office in 2023, then-Gov. Mike Parson joked that he had extracted a “blood oath” from...

29.08.2025 10

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The Supreme Court Turns Its Sights on Trans Athletes

The US Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear a pair of cases in the fall involving state laws in that ban transgender girls and women...

04.07.2025 20

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Supreme Court Once Again Preserves the Affordable Care Act

For 15 years, the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected attempts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, and today is no different. This morning, the...

27.06.2025 20

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The Supreme Court Just Made It Easier for States to Defund Planned Parenthood

At a time when Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of reproductive health care, faces unprecedented threats to its very survival on...

26.06.2025 10

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Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

Three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion, the justices have decided to let states ban another...

18.06.2025 20

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A Doctor’s Impassioned Defense of Later Abortions

Dr. Shelley Sella kept a journal from the very first day she got on a plane to go work for George Tiller, the third-trimester abortion provider who...

05.06.2025 20

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Women’s Health Care Has a Racism Problem. Trump’s War on DEI Is Making It Worse.

Dr. Emily Hawes-Van Pelt, an OB-GYN working in Minneapolis, didn’t consider herself an expert on fighting racism in health care. Then in May 2020,...

04.06.2025 20

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Missouri Supreme Court Defies Voters, Halts Abortions in the State

One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom,” including abortion, in the state...

29.05.2025 10

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Utah Study on Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient for Politicians Who Ordered It

In 2022, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was the rare Republican governor who seemed to truly care about the well-being of transgender kids. “I don’t...

25.05.2025 10

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Trump Administration Ordered to Undo Yet Another Wrongful Deportation

Late last night, a federal district court judge in Massachusetts ordered the US government to “facilitate” the return of a Guatemalan man who was...

24.05.2025 10

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The Latest Supreme Court Case Targeting the ACA Comes from a Longtime Anti-Gay Activist

For over a decade, Americans with private health insurance have enjoyed free access to dozens of types of preventive health care: cholesterol...

22.04.2025 20

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South Carolina Attacked Planned Parenthood. Will SCOTUS Let Patients Fight Back?

Perhaps what was most significant in the debate at the US Supreme Court Wednesday morning, during oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South...

03.04.2025 10

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Ken Paxton Finally Found Healthcare Providers to Charge With “Illegal” Abortion

In what appears to be the first arrests of healthcare providers for allegedly violating a post-Roe v. Wade state abortion ban, Maria Margarita Rojas,...

19.03.2025 10

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Supreme Court to Decide Whether States Can Ban Anti-LGBTQ Conversion Therapy on Kids

In what could foreshadow a major new onslaught against queer and trans children, the US Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear a case...

11.03.2025 20

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