The Destruction of Gender-Affirming Healthcare for NYC Trans Youth
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…
Trans Health Care Under Trump
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…
Woodhull Cries Foul! At Slate of Alarming Bills Introduced in Oklahoma Seeking to Rollback Human Rights
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…
Testimony in Opposition to HB 121, Montana’s Proposed Transgender Bathroom Ban
Dear Members of the Montana House Standing Committee of the Judiciary, My name is Ricci Joy Levy, and I am the President & CEO of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, a national organization whose mission is to affirm sexual freedom as…
Woodhull Calls on SCOTUS to Protect Trans Youth’s Access to Gender-Affirming Healthcare
On December 4, 2024, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a case that is critical to safeguarding transgender youth’s access to lifesaving gender-affirming healthcare. The case challenges Tennessee Senate Bill 1, which bans gender-affirming care for…
Woodhull Condemns Florida Department of Education Ban on Critical Sex Education Topics
Woodhull is alarmed by the ongoing attacks against freedom of expression and children’s right to education in Florida. In recent years, Florida’s legislature has passed a series of laws restricting critical sex and gender education topics in school districts throughout…
Improving Access to Gender-Affirming Care in Hawaii
Getting gender-affirming care in the United States has become increasingly difficult. Across the country, there are laws or policies banning such care for minors. The Human Rights Campaign reports that an estimated 35.1% of trans youth aged 13-17 are living…