Sex

The Latest Big Win in Gavin Grimm’s Case Shows Why Judicial Diversity Matters

Imani Gandy

The president is stacking the courts with right-leaning extremists who will languish on the bench for decades, doing their best to strip marginalized people of their civil rights. This should alarm you.

Trump Praises His War on Reproductive Rights at Anti-Choice Gala

Ally Boguhn

President Trump said the midterm elections are critical to anti-choice federal lawmakers hoping to ram through their agenda in the U.S. Congress.

Tony Perkins will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

Caroline Matas

While Perkins has expressed interest in using his new position as an opportunity to support “religious freedom and the defense of religious minorities,” he might find that the USCIRF actually doesn’t require a significant change in focus from his own preoccupations with Christians’ rights.

Trump’s Domestic Gag Rule Will Silence, Shame, and Stigmatize Women

Anu Kumar

The domestic and global gag rules stigmatize a simple medical procedure by disconnecting it from other health care services and by forcing doctors not to offer women the whole array or reproductive options available to them.

Connecticut Lawmakers Push Back Against Trump’s Attack on Transgender Inmates

Auditi Guha

“When you are incarcerated, you are constantly told that you’re not human. This law takes valuable steps toward rejecting that false message to instead affirm the humanity and dignity of incarcerated people."

Trump’s ‘Gag Rule’ Will Target Planned Parenthood—Along With Low-Income Women’s Access to Health Care (Updated)

Ally Boguhn

Title X provides family planning services to nearly 4 million patients with low incomes in the United States, many of whom are people of color who face systemic barriers to health-care access.

Legislative Lowlights: Ohio GOP Seeks an ‘Abortion-Free Society’

Brie Shea

And Republican lawmakers in Kansas would cancel their whole telemedicine law if they can't keep a ban on abortion in it. Priorities!

This Week in Sex: Women in U.S. Having Far Fewer Babies

Martha Kempner

Also, Trump apparently doesn’t know the difference between HIV and HPV, and the Argentina soccer team gets a “lesson” in how to pick up Russian women.

We’re Shaping the Appalachia to Come

Eric Kerl

Urban Appalachia has a long, proud tradition of speaking truth to power and combating the backward politics of charlatans.

Ask a Queer Chick: I’m a Lesbian and Married to a Man I Don’t Love. What Do I Do?

Lindsay King-Miller

Also: How do I be myself when I don't know who that "self" is?