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SCOTUS Wades Back Into the War on Trans Kids—And Considers Greenlighting Conversion Therapy

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Since the early 2010s, amid a sea change of public acceptance of LGBTQ people, state after state banned the use of conversion therapy—the debunked, harmful practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity—on children and teenagers. And for just as long, a tiny contingent of therapists on the fringes of their […]

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Trump’s Mental Health Plan: Defund, Incarcerate, Disappear

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When President Donald Trump tries to defend his mass deportation agenda, he claims, without evidence, that immigrants are entering the United States from “mental institutions and insane asylums.”  When he wants to insult people—like Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Mo.), or former Vice President Kamala Harris—he calls them “low IQ,” “deranged,” and […]

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Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender

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The suspect in the mass shooting responsible for killing two school-aged children and wounding 17 others at a Catholic church in Minneapolis on Wednesday has been identified as having changed her legal name in 2020 to reflect her identity as female. “Minor child identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification,” […]

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The Trump Administration Is Using the UN to Push Its Anti-Trans Agenda Globally

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The administration’s UN officials are objecting to the word “gender” in international resolutions and documents.

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The Surgery That Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Women’s Health Care

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For decades, the default feminist position on hysterectomy has been skepticism—and with good reason: The history of gynecology is replete with stories of unethical doctors and gruesome experimentation, of deeply ingrained misogyny and horrific racism. But when Hunter College medical sociologist Andréa Becker started doing research on hysterectomies in 2019, she discovered that many women […]

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Thousands of LGBTQ+ Veterans Were Supposed to Get Pardons. A Year Later, Only Four Have Succeeded.

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This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to its newsletter. The email came last fall while James Harter was on vacation with his husband in Quebec City, Canada. He was checking his computer in their RV when he read the no-nonsense subject […]

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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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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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Inside Palm Springs’ Queer Rodeo

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In early May, the small city of Banning, California, hosted the Palm Springs Hot Rodeo. The competition, which has occurred most years for the past 50, salutes the homoeroticism of rodeo culture. The four-day event—an official stop on the International Gay Rodeo Association circuit—features traditional rodeo events like steer wrestling and calf roping, along with […]

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