Remember the good ol’ days when political attack ads discussed real issues facing potential constituents? Based on the current state of Republican campaigning, those days are long behind us. Three […]
Tag: transgender
Unanswered questions on transgender sports participation
West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act specifies that sports teams for girls and women “shall not be open to students of the male sex.” That prohibits a transgender girl from […]
Disinformation underlies bans on care for transgender adolescents
by R. Kelly Sheridan In the past three years, 23 states have passed legislation that prohibits physicians and other health care providers from providing gender affirming health care to transgender […]
Direct link between politics & teen’s death
An Oklahoma teenager died earlier this month after being beaten up during a fight with some older girls in a school bathroom. The school failed to call an ambulance or […]
‘Women’s Bill of Rights’ would define male, female
Senators advanced legislation called the “Women’s Bill of Rights” that would codify definitions of man and woman, and they advanced another bill called “The Restoring Sanity Act” that would, among […]
Feb. 11 letters to the editor
Lawmakers can do more to protect women I fail to understand how our Legislature continues to get it so wrong! The women of West Virginia should be protected from […]
Amendment to broaden Women’s Bill of Rights mostly whittled away
CHARLESTON — The Women’s Bill of Rights, as introduced at the West Virginia Legislature, would codify the definitions of “man” and “woman” while assuring availability of single-sex spaces like restrooms […]
Women’s Bill of Rights’ has ‘absolutely nothing to do with women’
CHARLESTON — In a public hearing about legislation called “The Women’s Bill of Rights,” most speakers said the bill does nothing of the sort and, instead, is an effort to […]
Guest essay: Achieving abortion justice, trans liberation in W.Va.
by Ash Orr On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization upheld a Mississippi law imposing a ban on […]
Insidious nature of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
As Ash Orr mentions in their guest essay, hundreds of anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced across the nation — most of which target transgender people. We’ve noticed, however, the anti-trans […]
