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Labor Department Reposts Grants for Women Workers DOGE Previously Killed

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On Wednesday morning, the Labor Department quietly reposted grants aimed at getting women workers into fields like construction and manufacturing, two months after DOGE sanctimoniously canceled the program. The move came as a shock to employees. DOGE previously eliminated dozens of the congressionally mandated Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) grants, which support recruiting and […]

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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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Parental Rights Is a Movement With Deep Roots. It’s Spreading Nationwide.

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In late March, the US Department of Education put state education officials on notice: No longer would the federal government tolerate what the agency described in a Dear Colleague Letter as the widespread infringement on parents’ rights to direct the schooling of their kids. “By natural right and moral authority, parents are the primary protectors […]

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LA’s ICE Raids Are Impacting Domestic Violence Shelters

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On Monday, as ICE swept Los Angeles with raids in President Donald Trump’s escalating drive for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, a client of the Survivor Justice Center had an appointment for a court hearing.  The purpose was to secure a permanent, five-year restraining order against her abuser, who had already violated a temporary restraining […]

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Rep. Sarah McBride on GOP Attacks: “They’re Employing the Strategies of Reality TV.”

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My red carpet interview with Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) at the Saturday premiere of a new documentary on her history-making election as the first openly transgender member of Congress was interrupted by an adoring passerby. “Sarah, I love you!” the man shouted. “I’m a donor and I don’t even live in the district!” (“Thank you […]

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Republicans Want to Ban Pets From Domestic Violence Shelters

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A new Trump-backed attack on domestic violence services just dropped—and this time, it’s targeting survivors’ pets. Tucked inside the 1,200-page appendix to the White House’s budget request to Congress is a proposal to eliminate a grant program, funded by the Agriculture Department and administered by the Department of Justice, that provides domestic violence shelters with […]

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Trump Wants To Eliminate a 105-Year-Old Office That Supports Women Workers

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When the Secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL), Lori Chavez-DeRemer, testified before the House Appropriations Committee last month, she seemed to assure worried lawmakers that the more than century-old, congressionally-mandated Women’s Bureau was here to stay.  “The Women’s Bureau is in statute,” Chavez-DeRemer said in response to a question from Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) about […]

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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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For Trans People on Medicaid, Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Is Anything But

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Last week, Max, a trans man in North Carolina in his twenties—and my childhood friend—got top surgery. “I didn’t cry when I saw the results because it just looks like how I feel it should,” Max wrote in an email. He cried later, he said—when he realized he’d been able to “build a body I […]

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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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She Left Her Abuser. Why Is She Still Paying for His Credit Card Debt?

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One day, Sarah Ortiz bought a sweater at Target. She knew money was tight. She had just moved across the country from California to Massachusetts with her two toddlers and husband to seek costly, specialized medical care for one of her boys. But, Ortiz thought, it was just $25. And she needed a new sweater. […]

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