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Behind the Friendly Faces: Big Ocean Women Are Working to Write ‘Nontraditional’ Families Out of Existence at the UN

Cole Parke

For the last four years, the Big Ocean Women have focused on bringing maternal feminism to the United Nations, aiming to advance a "family rights" agenda that leaves LGBTQ people out.

This Week in Sex: Ohio Lawmakers Want to Out Kids for (What They Think Are) Hints of Being Trans

Martha Kempner

So are teachers going to be reporting transgender children, girls with short haircuts, students who want gender-neutral anything, or your average nonconformist teen to their parents?

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In West Virginia, Doctors Assumed My Chronic Pain Was Really a Drug Problem

Andrea Fekete

When anyone in my city, specifically someone young and healthy-looking, is lethargic and incoherent, an EMT’s first guess is an heroin overdose.

Judge Kavanaugh Will Take a Sledgehammer to Justice Kennedy’s LGBTQ Rights Legacy

Eric Lesh

Kavanaugh's record shows no indication that he will decide cases involving discrimination against LGBTQ people fairly, nor that he will uphold our nation's core principles of equality and freedom for all.

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With ‘Roe’ in Jeopardy, Reproductive Rights Take Center Stage in Nixon-Cuomo Primary

Gaby Del Valle

A spokesperson for Nixon’s campaign told Rewire.News in an email that the executive order is nearly identical to a similar bill the governor signed 18 months prior.

[Photo: Pro-Choice activists and others participate in a protest to denounce President Donald Trump's selection of Brett Kavanaugh]

Sex, Lies, and Nominees: Brett Kavanaugh Is Right Up Trump’s Alley

Jodi Jacobson & A New Lawsuit Shows How Far Trump’s Agencies Will Go to Restrict Access to Birth Control

There are a few things about Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh other than how he might rule that you might want to know.

Life After ‘Roe’: Clergy Consider Handing Out Morning-After Pill in Church

Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

"The thing most of us have been talking about is to encourage the use of medical technology, the morning-after pills and very good new drugs. There are already very interesting groups of women my age feeling we could take the risk of loading up our vans to take road trips and give them out at churches."

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Does Informed Consent Mean ‘Hormones on Demand’ for Trans People? Not So Much.

s.e. smith

When you go to the doctor's office because you have a cough, you don't need a note from a psychiatrist to get an inhaler. Proponents of the informed consent model say this is how transition services, such as hormone replacement therapy, should be provided too.

Legislative Lowlights: State-Level Republicans Green Light Discrimination Against LGBTQ Adoption

Brie Shea

South Carolina became the tenth state to allow publicly funded adoption agencies to discriminate against same-sex couples and other prospective parents based on the agency's religious beliefs.

A New Lawsuit Shows How Far Trump’s Agencies Will Go to Restrict Access to Birth Control

Lisa Needham

The lawsuit alleges that the University of Notre Dame improperly entered into a settlement agreement with the U.S. government that permits the school to deny its students, faculty, and staff contraceptive coverage, regardless of the rules of the ACA's birth control benefit.

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