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[Photo: Close up of a Planned Parenthood sign on a building.]

Trump Administration Releases Final Text of Domestic ‘Gag Rule’ Restriction on Title X (Updated)

Katelyn Burns & What You Need to Know About Trump’s Attacks on the Federal Family Planning Program

Anti-choice officials installed by the Trump administration at HHS have long held the goal of defunding Planned Parenthood, a primary recipient of Title X family planning funding.

[Photo: The lead clinician at a Planned Parenthood clinic talks in one of the clinic rooms.]

What You Need to Know About Trump’s Attacks on the Federal Family Planning Program

Laura Huss, Katelyn Burns & What You Need to Know About Trump’s Attacks on the Federal Family Planning Program

The Trump administration presents a threat to the Title X family planning grant program that hasn’t been seen before.

[Photo: Two genderqueer individuals pose for a picture during a parade.]

Ask a Queer Chick: Do I Have to Come Out to My Conservative Family?

Lindsay King-Miller

Also: How do I stand up for a friend being misgendered at work? And how do I know if I'm nonbinary?

The Way We Never Were: Calling Out Evangelicals For Hypocrisy Misses the Point

Hollis Phelps

Much of the discussion of white evangelicals laments the loss of their moral standing, but such criticisms suffer under the misunderstanding that white evangelicalism in the United States has somehow devolved from a once salutary moral vision to brute political opportunism.

[Photo: A river flowing under a moonlit night between a bank of pine trees, with mountains rising in the background.]

‘Honoring Our Monthly Moons’: Some Menstruation Rituals Give Indigenous Women Hope

Mary Annette Pember

The way the media represents these menstruation practices is crucial. There are myriad practices and, for some, they hold the key to healing from ongoing colonial violence.

The Problem of ‘Evil’ in Describing Southern Baptist Abuse Crisis

Carol Howard Merritt

Now that I’m a pastor, I hold this truth within me: Every person has the capacity to do horrible things and so our congregations need to be set up with ways to report that go beyond a distraught housewife armed with a telephone.

[Photo: House of Representatives chamber of the Kansas State Capitol.]

Legislative Lowlights: Republicans Use Secular Humanism to Attack LGBTQ Rights

Brie Shea

State-level GOP lawmakers are taking policy advice from an electronic dance music producer who wants to ban same-sex marriage in the United States.

[Photo: Pen15 character Maya practices kissing on a bed post.]

‘PEN15’ Reminds Us Teen Girls Want to Masturbate Too

Brandi Collins-Calhoun

Hulu's new series is a much-needed perspective about girls' sexuality that has nothing to do with pregnancy and everything to do with pleasure, particularly masturbation.

[Photo: On the lawn of a church, a word painted on each door - doors of different shapes, sizes, and colors - come together to say, `God`s Doors Are Open To All`.]

A Pair of Christian Colleges Quietly Cracking Down on LGBTQ Acceptance

Chrissy Stroop

As America reels from the exposure of a massive child sexual abuse scandal in the Southern Baptist Convention, we should pause to take stock of the culpability of the broader conservative, mostly white evangelical subculture.

[Photo: State Representative Tom Pischke speaks during a floor debate.]

South Dakota’s House Just Passed an Anti-Trans Bill. It Could Be Coming to Your State Next. (Updated)

Nico Lang

South Dakota's HB 1108 is likely to prove a harbinger of things to come for the LGBTQ community in the United States.

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