“It’s ironic to me, in a really sad way, because so much of transphobia and transmisogyny is focused on the genitalia of a person, and in this instance our reproductive organs suddenly don't matter."
Rene Lopez, a 24-year-old gender-nonconforming asylum seeker, doesn’t know what justice would be like. But there’s one thing she is certain of: She is unsafe and wants to be released from detention after her next hearing on Wednesday.
I am most aligned with the people who force the world to be accountable for its stigma, bias, and hate. There is nothing that captures the spirit of Pride better than that.
A lengthy document I signed upon my arrival to the emergency room acted as a general consent to treatment—but it meant that I was given antibiotics I didn't need and that my insurance refused to cover.
The past two popes insist, against mounting evidence, that the gender binary, male and female, is given in nature and blessed by God. God, a male after all, created them Male and Female. The Genesis account inconveniently leaves out the detail about the blue and pink blankets and onesies.
Women using Medicaid, particularly those who are Black or Latina, may be disproportionately funneled into Catholic facilities by their insurance plans, a new paper in the journal Contraception found.
If they were to fully and meaningfully implement this policy, I doubt that the Convention would be left with any churches as members, for they all remain complicit with racist and sexist structures that rob many of us of our very humanity.
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