Ray Levy-Uyeda is a Bay Area-based freelance writer who focuses on gender, politics and activism. You can find her work elsewhere at Teen Vogue, Fortune and Vice. Find her on Twitter @raylevyuyeda.
Joe Biden says he would restore LGBTQ rights lost under President Trump, but a truly transformative queer and trans political agenda isn’t merely about building protections onto an existing political structure.
The goal of anti-trans legislation, experts say, is not equity but rather to codify discriminatory and invasive practices founded on nonscientific reasoning and personal prejudice.
With supply chain disruptions in India due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, medication abortion may be less accessible—an issue compounded by anti-choice state officials trying to ban the procedure and the FDA.
Illinois' 3rd District race functions not only as a test of an incumbent against an upstart candidate but also of whether voters believe abortion to be a fundamental Democratic value; we know Dan Lipinski certainly doesn’t.
People who turn to crowdfunding to pay for an abortion aren't meeting their fundraising goals—what options do those who can't afford the procedure have?
The point lawmakers want to make is this: Laws that attack men's reproductive freedom are seen as overstepping and unreasonable, but restrictions on women's reproductive health care are commonplace.
Pete Buttigieg should support the most vulnerable among us—people of color, homeless youth, the uninsured, the poor—and not cower to those who see this as radical.
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