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Anti-Trans Legislation
July 16, 2025
Parker Molloy
How Rahm Emanuel Got Trapped in the Bathroom
The former Chicago mayor says Democrats focus too much on trans issues. He’s wrong about which party is obsessed—and about everything else.
June 18, 2025
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court’s Anti-Transgender Ruling Is a Tortured Mess
While the court’s ruling was not as immediately disastrous as it might have been, it sets the stage for a parade of horribles in the years to come.
December 18, 2024
J. Dylan Sandifer
America’s Anti-Trans Panic Is a Scam
While the current wave of discriminatory policies will do obvious harm to the transgender community, they’re also meant to distract from the myriad ways we’re all getting fleeced.
December 9, 2024
Zane McNeill
The Next War Against Trans People Is Already Being Waged in Texas
The Lone Star State’s legal attacks on gender-affirming care hold major consequences for 2025—and beyond.
January 11, 2024
Melissa Gira Grant
Mike DeWine Is Following the Right’s Vicious Abortion Playbook on Trans Health Care
The Ohio governor’s not going to ban gender-affirming care for minors—he’s just going to make it impossible.
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.
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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