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Meet the Mastermind Behind Trump’s Definition of “Woman”

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“Big moves on Day 1,” White House senior policy strategist May Mailman crowed on X the morning of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, linking to a news article about a forthcoming executive order. Even amid the barrage of actions during the first hours of the Trump 2.0 presidency, the order—“Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and […]

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

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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 should be able to play on women’s school sports teams. On the surface, the cases invoke headline-grabbing controversies over the fairness of transgender women and girls competing […]

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How Right-Wing Superstar Riley Gaines Built an Anti-Trans Empire

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This story was produced in partnership with the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast. Watch the accompanying episode below or listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. At a White House ceremony last February, before President Donald Trump signed an executive order to defund schools if they permit transgender girls to play girls’ sports, he turned and […]

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Trump Rewards MAGA Attack Dog Attorney General With FBI Post

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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 the new appointee not to run for higher office too quickly. The state’s previous two attorneys general—Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt—had both used the position as an interim step to the […]

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The Supreme Court Turns Its Sights on Trans Athletes

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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 from participating in girls’ and women’s school sports. The cases originate in Idaho, which passed the country’s first trans youth sports ban in 2020, and West Virginia, which […]

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

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At a time when Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of reproductive health care, faces unprecedented threats to its very survival on multiple fronts, the Supreme Court added another one on Thursday. In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that if states decide to unilaterally cut off Medicaid funding to a healthcare provider—in this case […]

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Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Gender Affirming Care for Minors

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Three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion, the justices have decided to let states ban another politically controversial form of health care—this time, gender-affirming medical treatments for minors. In a major ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning transgender kids, but not cisgender […]

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

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Three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion, the justices have decided to let states ban another politically controversial form of health care—this time, gender-affirming medical treatments for minors. In a major ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning transgender kids, but not cisgender […]

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A Doctor’s Impassioned Defense of Later Abortions

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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 was assassinated in 2009. As the first woman to openly provide third-trimester abortions in the US, she spent nearly 20 years commuting from her home in California to […]

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

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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, George Floyd was murdered a few blocks from her hospital. “What we knew about the world, many of us”—she looked out at an audience of doctors, most of them Black like […]

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Missouri Supreme Court Defies Voters, Halts Abortions in the State

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One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom,” including abortion, in the state constitution, that would be the end of the conversation. In overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, the US Supreme Court professed that the question of whether abortion should be legal was now up to states. And […]

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

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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 understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live,” he wrote in a letter that year, explaining why he was […]

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