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This Week in Sex: How a Lesbian Couple Literally Made a Baby Together

Martha Kempner

The new procedure is a cheaper alternative to in vitro fertilization. And in other news, women are applying entrepreneurial know-how to funding fertility treatment.

Catholic Bishops’ Religious Liberty Fight Enables Anti-Jewish Discrimination (Updated)

Patricia Miller

It’s not hard to extend the bishops' logic on discrimination against LGBTQ foster parents to the assertion that Christian social services agencies shouldn’t be “discriminated” against for refusing to work with Jews and Muslims.

[Photo: Two scientists doing science work.]

Scientists Blast Trump’s ‘Absurd’ Anti-Trans Memo

Katelyn Burns & Religious Freedom May Now Include Discrimination Against Jews and Muslims

“The proposal is in no way ‘grounded in science’ as the administration claims."

[PHOTO: A human-like being with fangs, a bloody mouth, and a head with wisps of white hair.]

Five Times ‘American Horror Story’ Was Spot on—or Way off—With Reproductive Horrors

Brandi Collins-Calhoun

Forced commitment to a mental health hospital, rape, denial of abortion, a coat-hanger abortion, a pastor who holds a woman hostage and lets her bleed to death as punishment for an abortion: The FX show has it all.

[Photo: Athlete Dutee Chand stands at her podium draped in the Indian flag]

Why ‘Genetic Testing’ for Gender Is Dangerous Pseudoscience

Tris Mamone

The theory suggested by the recent leaked U.S. Department of Health and Human Services memo is wrong about the science behind gender on two counts: gender identity likely has a neurological basis, and biological sex is not a strict binary.

State Department: No Plans to Change Passport Policy Despite Trump Anti-Trans Memo

Katelyn Burns

Advocates for the transgender community have been keeping a close eye on the passport process amid fear of changes by the Trump administration.

[Photo: A woman looks in a mirror and appears frightened.]

Ask a Queer Chick: My Girlfriend’s Ex-Girlfriend’s Ghost Won’t Get out of My House

Lindsay King-Miller

Also: How do I find a relationship that will solve my problems?

Reflections on Standing Rock and Our Queer Mother Earth

Jen Deerinwater

Nearly two years have passed since my trip to Standing Rock soon after the October 27 raids. I had been publishing about the Dakota Access pipeline for a couple months, but physically being in North Dakota was a different beast.

Iowa’s GOP Governor Suddenly Supports Expanding Access to Contraception

Ally Boguhn

Gov. Kim Reynolds (R), who has supported cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood, has changed her tune on contraception in her re-election bid.

Religious Freedom May Now Include Discrimination Against Jews and Muslims

Heron Greenesmith

South Carolina governor Henry McMaster moved to protect Miracle Hill and other agencies that want to to discriminate against Jews and others and continue to receive government funding.

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