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Anti-Trans Legislation
June 8, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
The Origins of the Right’s War on Target
Target has put up Pride displays since 2015. What’s so different about this year?
May 9, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
Republicans’ Anti-Trans Assault Has an Achilles Heel
By cruelly targeting minorities, the GOP could accidentally create a new constituency.
May 1, 2023
Tori Otten
Judge Blocks Extreme Missouri Anti-Trans Health Care Ban
State Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s emergency rule would have forbidden gender-affirming care for both children and adults.
May 1, 2023
Prem Thakker
Iowa High Schooler Gives Governor Kim Reynolds an Earful Over Anti-Trans Bills
The episode underscores how the Republican agenda is increasingly out of touch with younger Americans.
March 20, 2023
Tori Otten
Missouri Becomes Latest State to Attempt a Ban on Gender-Affirming Care
The state’s attorney general pulled the trigger on an emergency order despite the fact that the legislature is currently debating a bill.
November 16, 2022
Tori Otten
At Least 32 Trans People Have Been Killed So Far This Year
The real number is likely far higher, according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign.
September 28, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
Doxxed Doctors, Library Bomb Threats, and Attacks on Pride Centers: A Week in Escalating Anti-LGBTQ Violence
Amid a rising right-wing tide of threats, recent incidents have sadly not been out of the norm.
April 22, 2022
Robert Schlesinger
Republicans Give Up on the Free Market and Put Their Faith in Vindictive Governance
Disney’s decision to oppose Florida’s “don’t say gay” law is all about appealing to consumers. Conservatives just can’t handle the fact that their political ideology is toxic in the American marketplace.
April 6, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
The Law Alone Can’t Halt the Christian Right’s Crusade Against Abortion and LGBTQ Rights
Liberals can’t count on the courts to protect against Republican ambitions to roll back civil rights.
March 17, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
“Grooming” Is Republicans’ Cruel New Buzzword for Targeting Trans Kids
On the right, “grooming” is being teed up as the next CRT.
February 23, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
Texas’s Attorney General Is Laying the Groundwork to Separate Trans Kids From Their Families
Ken Paxton says his “formal attorney general opinion” is that gender-affirming health care for trans kids is “child abuse.”
February 17, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
The Groups Pushing Anti-Trans Laws Want to Divide the LGBTQ Movement
The same people keep pushing bill after bill, developing their strategy as they go.
February 10, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
Republicans Are Already Trying to Pass as Many Anti-Trans Bills as Possible in 2022
Over a dozen states are currently considering anti-LGBTQ laws.
July 21, 2021
Esther Wang
How Tucker Carlson and a Story About a Possibly Fictional Trans Person Fueled Two Weeks of Violent Right-Wing Protests
The chaos unfolding outside of a Los Angeles spa is a case study in how the right’s media and political ecosystems feed each other, often resulting in very real violence.
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