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Dr. Leana Wen: A State of Emergency in Missouri and Across the Country

Dr. Leana Wen & Supreme Court Declines to Hear Anti-Transgender Fearmongering Case

Unlike a state of emergency that is called after natural disasters, this is a man-made disaster that is putting people’s lives and health in danger.

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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Anti-Transgender Fearmongering Case

Heron Greenesmith

Doe v. Boyertown was brought to the U.S. Supreme Court by Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative training ground for lawyers around the world.

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Trump Proposed Allowing Anti-Gay Discrimination in Adoption Just Before the Holiday Weekend

Nico Lang

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is considering the repeal of Obama-era policies that ban adoption and foster care agencies from receiving federal funding if they refuse to work with LGBTQ couples.

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My First Pap Smear as an Openly Nonbinary Person Was Wildly Disorienting

S.E. Fleenor

Here's how medical professionals can do better.

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Opposing Anti-Choice Legislation Isn’t a Violation of Religious Freedom, It’s an Expression of It

Rebecca Todd Peters

While some have argued that opposition to a woman’s right to make decisions about her body is a legitimate religious freedom issue, this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the religious freedom issue at stake in the abortion debate.

[Photo: A gender non-conforming person looks worried as they sit in a clinic room in a hospital gown.]

Our So-Called Health Department Is Doing Everything It Can to Deny Care to Millions

Mary Alice Carter

People should never fear they’re going to be refused care based on their gender or their past medical decisions.

[Photo: Two gender queer people look concerned as they talk in a clinic lobby.]

Trump Administration Announces Fresh Attack on LGBTQ, Reproductive Rights (Updated)

Jessica Mason Pieklo & Trump Touted Gilead’s Donation of HIV-Prevention Medication, But Doctors Want Generics—Not Charity

Proposed changes to Section 1557 announced Friday would eradicate protections in the Affordable Care Act for LGBTQ patients as well as access to reproductive care.

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Catholic Hospitals Can Deny Patients Contraception. This Is My Story.

Evann Normandin

If the Trump administration gets its way, be prepared for an outpouring of stories that bear a resemblance to this one, but don’t wrap up so neatly.

After All the Handwringing We’re Now Seeing Exactly Why Conservative Christians Supported Trump

Hollis Phelps & L. Benjamin Rolsky

Many have argued that Trump is little more than a “scam artist” who has duped evangelicals into following him. But it’s the other way around: Trump didn’t use the religious right to win the presidency; the religious right used Trump to get what it wanted.

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Trump Touted Gilead’s Donation of HIV-Prevention Medication, But Doctors Want Generics—Not Charity

Sony Salzman & Trump Touted Gilead’s Donation of HIV-Prevention Medication, But Doctors Want Generics—Not Charity

Gilead’s charitable donation wasn’t enough to quell a mounting tide of anger directed at the company.

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