by Christy Olezeski, Meredithe McNamara and Anne Alstott This year has seen an array of anti-transgender legislation. In 2022, legislation in 20 states so far has been introduced purporting to “protect” trans youth — by criminalizing care that has been used safely worldwide ...
by Michael Hiltzik For those desperately seeking evidence that the Republican Party has not completely thrown in with its worst instincts, let us consider Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox and Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb. Both this week stood fast against the outbreak of merciless malevolence ...
MORGANTOWN — In the course of a day, the number of Delta-variant COVID cases tripled in West Virginia — from four to 12 — and Gov. Jim Justice and Public Health Commissioner Ayne Amjad both said Tuesday that's all the more reason to get vaccinated. Justice passed along the recent ...
Perhaps it was just a big, unfortunate coincidence. But it feels more like an insult that Gov. Ron DeSantis chose June 1, the first day of LGBTQ Pride Month, to sign Florida’s biggest anti-LGBTQ bill in recent history banning transgender women and girls from playing sports. Perhaps ...
Gov. Justice has, sitting on his desk, one of the most discriminatory bills to come out of the 2021 legislative session. HB 3293 shamefully targets one of the nation’s most vulnerable populations — transgender individuals. HB 3293 mandates participation in school sports be determined ...
There is an intense debate over legislation in West Virginia concerning transgender athletes. At issue is whether school students whose biological sex is male but whose gender identity is female (transgender) should be allowed or prevented from participating in girls’ sports at their ...