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If signed into law, the bill will affect the estimated 20,000 transgender people who live in Louisiana.
“The US is failing mothers,” the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health said in a new report.
First-ever report fully details providers using blue state shield laws to prescribe abortion pills via telehealth.
“Trump is currently the greatest threat to LGBTQ people,” LGBTQ legislative researcher Allison Chapman told Truthout.
“Just like MO's abortion ban, ‘defunding’ is about power & control,” said a Missouri chapter of Planned Parenthood.
“This law does not protect children and schools should not be forced to put children in danger,” an LGBTQ advocate said.
“For too long this industry has evaded basic legal oversight,” a legal scholar told Truthout.
“The right to interstate travel is one of our most fundamental constitutional rights,” the judge said in his ruling.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced on Thursday that the state would not comply with a federal regulation designed to protect the rights of...
Amid escalating tensions surrounding pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses nationwide, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) recently...
On Monday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released updated guidance detailing that employers who refuse to use transgender...
“We consider this to be a prime moment to take stock, recharge, plan, and build power,” a student coalition said.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...
Doctors performing life-saving abortions in Texas may soon need to record if they attempted to transfer the patient to another facility before...
On Thursday, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) enacted HB 0785, known as the Freedom to Read Act, into law, prohibiting libraries that receive state funding...
Approximately 93 percent of transgender youth aged 13 to 17 live in states that have proposed or passed anti-trans laws, according to a new report by...
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a decisive abortion rights case regarding whether hospitals are obligated to provide abortions...
On Monday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) urged the Ohio Supreme Court to review a lower court judge’s temporary restraining order against the...
A recent report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) found that Israel tied with Iran as one of the world’s leaders in jailing...
“This is a massive victory for trans rights,” LGBTQ legislative researcher Allison Chapman told Truthout.
Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights has officially launched a campaign to place a state constitutional amendment safeguarding abortion rights on...
“[P]eople don’t need to be afraid to show up. The Constitution still protects our right to protest,” McKesson said.
A national study published by JAMA Health Forum found that there was an abrupt surge in permanent sterilization procedures among young adults ages...
On Thursday, the Tennessee Senate approved a measure that would criminalize helping transgender youth access gender-affirming care without parental...
Republican Rep. Josh Williams introduced a bill this week in Ohio aimed at withholding state subsidies from any government entities that provide...
The country’s strict abortion ban violates Hondurans’ rights to “life, health, privacy, autonomy, and bodily integrity.”
On Monday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demanded that Israel allow foreign journalists to enter the Gaza strip. Currently, only...
On Thursday, the Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a lower court preliminary injunction, affirming that individuals who have religious objections to the...
Nearly 90 percent of transgender people in state prisons have been placed in solitary confinement at some point during their incarceration, according...
The layoffs were prompted by a diversity, equity, and inclusion ban that went into effect in January.
On Tuesday, Arizona for Abortion Access, a coalition of reproductive rights organizations, including the ACLU of Arizona and Planned Parenthood...
Lizelle Gonzalez, a Texas woman who self-managed an abortion in 2022, is suing local Starr County prosecutors for more than $1 million in damages for...
The Kansas legislature passed an anti-trans bill on Wednesday that would bar transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming care in the state....
A recent study conducted by Media Matters and GLAAD reveals that in the year following public backlash for its coverage of anti-trans legislation, The...
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signed into law a “Strippers’ Bill of Rights” on Monday, which was celebrated by advocates for its comprehensive...
As part of a $1.2 trillion government funding deal President Joe Biden signed on Saturday that will keep the majority of U.S. government agencies open...
On Wednesday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed a comprehensive anti-diversity bill into law. The bill, Senate Bill 129, targets diversity, equity,...
The Maine Sheriffs’ Association has come out in opposition to LD227, a shield law that would protect health care providers offering gender-affirming...
A recently released report details an unfolding “constitutional, human rights, public health, and medical ethics crisis” in Louisiana, caused by...
Russian authorities have initiated the country’s first-ever criminal case into “LGBT extremism,” according to Yekaterina Mizulina, head of the...
Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Washington) signed a law on March 18 requiring Washington’s school districts to develop curricula promoting diversity, equity and...
On March 13, Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) enacted Senate Bill 202, which mandates that professors in Indiana’s public universities uphold “intellectual...
Florence Ashley’s Gender/Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body, is an erotic-academic mashup that draws from the...
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has found that Israel breached international law in its October killing of Reuters journalist...
Arkansas lawmakers have proposed a rule that would hinder transgender people’s access to gender-neutral markers on their driver’s licenses and...
Sixteen state attorneys general from various Republican-led states, including Texas, Florida and Kentucky, are threatening to sue Maine if it proceeds...
Minnesota lawmakers are considering allocating $1 million to aid families who are moving to the state to seek gender-affirming care. The proposed...
An Idaho bill that would ban public funds from paying for gender-affirming care advanced out of committee and now heads to the Idaho House floor....
Both houses of the Wyoming legislature approved a gender-affirming care ban for transgender youth on Thursday. If Gov. Mark Gordon (R) does not veto...
The Missouri House is advancing a bill aimed at limiting abortion-specific training at both private and public medical schools within the state....