by Bryan Clark Idaho’s transgender athlete ban has been on hold pending a federal court case for two years. Now we know how lucky Idaho’s female athletes have been. Our neighbor to the south, which briefly implemented a ban modeled on Idaho’s before it, too, was blocked by a ...
Last time most of us looked, “bodies with vaginas” could be more simply described as women. Same went for “pregnant people” and “birthing people.” But transgender activists are insisting that the word “woman” be replaced with these more complicated descriptions. The ...
by Will Bunch I’ve been meaning to write a column on the growing threat — and reality — of violence to America’s LGBTQ community posed by right-wing rhetoric and politics, but it’s proved a difficult piece to write. Not because the “culture wars” around sexuality and ...
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 Jamey Gallagher Last weekend, my son Alex graduated from Bennington College. I am incredibly proud of the young man he has become. He is much stronger than I was at his age. He knows exactly who he is. He is a poet and a scholar, who happens to be trans and gay. If it were not for ...
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 ...