With Republican President Donald Trump pushing policies that hurt many marginalized groups, candidates from those communities have risen to the occasion and are running for office themselves.
Part of what drew Dr. Katie Bast to transgender health care was that she could relate to what her trans patients said about wanting to live a more authentic life.
“I’m appearing calmer than I am. But on the inside, I’m freaking out. What if I can’t get my prescriptions renewed? What if I can’t find another doctor?”
As advocates and researchers have seen, it is African women and girls who are suffering because of the United States’ interference with reproductive autonomy globally.
The Alliance Defending Freedom memo is part of a broader strategy to "attempt to undermine marriage equality, to undermine the Supreme Court ruling" legalizing same-sex marriage.
Hardline religious imposition activists in the Trump administration "could eviscerate the delivery of high-quality family planning services and supplies."
A group of women graduate students in Texas knew not getting pregnant was key to getting their education. When they started a network to help women get birth control via a public phone, they unleashed something even bigger.
