Age-verification laws ostensibly targeting online pornography are causing significant collateral damage among sex educators and sexual health professionals, according to new data released today by the Woodhull Freedom Foundation. Despite promises that the age-verification laws would simply prevent minors from…
Everyone seems to have a strong opinion about sex work, and those opinions are frequently based on lies about the oldest profession in the world. Fact Checked by Woodhull checked the facts about the most common myths impacting sex worker…
The repeated attacks on trans people’s fundamental human rights in the U.S. have been brutal. But trans communities and allies have fought back each time. Tireless activism across the country serves as a source of hope. So, too, does the…
Last summer, the Supreme Court’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton weakened the First Amendment rights of adults, in the name of “protecting children.” Paxton centers on a Texas law that imposes an age-verification requirement on websites that contain…
To: House Committee on Judiciary From: Woodhull Freedom Foundation Date: 2/9/2026 Re: Oppose HB 4157 Chair Kropf, Vice-Chairs Wallen, Chotzen, and members of the committee, My name is Mariah Grant, Woodhull Freedom Foundation Advocacy Consultant. Woodhull Freedom Foundation is a…
The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR)[1], the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA World)[2], Just Futures Collaborative, Pregnancy Justice, Global Alliance against Traffic in Women (GAATW),[3] Gender Centre Geneva Graduate Institute, Woodhull Freedom Foundation[4], and the Global…
Across the U.S., states are quietly cutting child care funding, including by slashing the rates they pay providers on behalf of low-income families. To Ruth Friedman, the child care crisis, put simply, “disrupts parents’ employment, reduces earnings and savings, and…
Under the Michigan Estates and Protected Individuals Code, a person can designate a patient advocate to determine their medical care, should they be unable to make or communicate their own decisions. Michigan thus offers a critical protection of our rights…