2025 was brutal for LGBTQ+ communities. We covered an array of attacks on queer and trans rights, from President Trump’s January 28, 2025, Executive Order, to the destruction of gender-affirming healthcare for NYC trans youth, to Texas’s Senate Bill 8…
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…
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues its reign of terror across the U.S. Families are being torn apart; communities are on edge as person after person is abducted in violent, racist raids. The fear of being deported or…
Once again, President Trump’s administration is making history for all the wrong reasons. On August 28, the United States withdrew from the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. This marks the first time in UPR history that a United Nations Member…
Trump’s January 28, 2025, Executive Order attacking gender-affirming healthcare for youth – the title of which is too awful to repeat here – is already causing unthinkable harm across the U.S. Among other horrors, the EO threatens the loss of…
Back during his campaign, President Trump was unequivocal: “I will sign a new executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age.” On top of that horrifying…
Emboldened by President Trump’s election, Senator Dusty Deevers, an ultra-conservative abortion abolitionist, pastor, and Oklahoma State Senator, ignores the separation between church and state, Constitutional rights, and human rights in two slates of proposed bills. The first slate of eight…