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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.
April 24, 2023
Brynn Tannehill
The End of Trans America Comes Into Focus
The laws proposed around the country by Republicans would make life for transgender people functionally impossible. The danger is in being under-wrought, not overwrought.
March 15, 2023
Brynn Tannehill
Why We’re Barreling Toward a Legal War Between the States
Red states are passing laws to advance their culture war. Blue states are passing laws to stop it. The Supreme Court is going to have to decide, and there is no compromise position.
March 8, 2023
Pablo Manríquez
Republicans Hate “Transgenderism”—but Is That All They Hate?
They insist they see a distinction between the -ism and the human beings. But the legislative attack on trans rights continues apace.
February 24, 2023
Brynn Tannehill
Inside the Right’s Anti-Trans Dog and Pony Show
In state after state after state, it’s the same—the same quack “experts,” the same false or outdated evidence, and the same hatred spewed at vulnerable youth. Step up, Democrats.
January 10, 2023
Pablo Manríquez
Here’s the First Salvo in House Republicans’ War on Transgender People
They’re reversing a rule Democrats passed in 2021 calling for gender-neutral pronouns. Think it’s gonna stop there?
September 7, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
“Libs of TikTok” and the Right’s Embrace of Anti-LGBTQ Violence
The newest campaign against children’s hospitals is part of a much larger pattern.
June 3, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
Republicans’ Anti-LGBTQ Conspiracy Theories Are Fueling Far-Right Threats to Pride Celebrations
Their anti-LGBTQ legal crusade and “grooming” language have been adopted by extremist groups.
September 24, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The World Is Finally Ready for Beverly Glenn-Copeland
After 50 years of living in rural obscurity, the now-legendary electronic musician has a message for the young.
January 13, 2020
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Melissa Gira Grant
Culture War in the Workplace
Inside the court battle over trans employment discrimination
November 7, 2019
Callie Hitchcock
We Are All Female Now
An interview with Andrea Long Chu on her new book "Females."
November 6, 2019
Melissa Gira Grant
Fixating on “Cancel Culture” in an Age of Transphobia
Articles about "canceled" or "provocative" writers rarely focus on the people they've harmed.
June 27, 2019
Emily Atkin
The Democratic debate was a milestone for transgender rights.
June 24, 2019
Scott W. Stern
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Charles O’Malley
Remembering Stonewall as It Actually Was—and a Movement as It Really Is
With monuments to a pair of trans activists instrumental in the 1969 uprising, New York City takes an important step toward inclusion.
May 28, 2019
Casey Quinlan
The Democrats’ Neglect of Transgender Rights
It's not just about bathrooms. It's about livelihoods—and lives.
August 28, 2018
Jo Livingstone
A Trans Memoir Explores Masculinity In Extremis
Thomas Page McBee's "Amateur" journeys to the center of the boxing ring.
August 26, 2017
Jeet Heer
Cultural Warlord Trump Goes on the Offensive
As Trump signs his trans ban, the fantasy that he would sideline cultural strife is officially dead.
August 18, 2017
Clio Chang
Evil tech bro James Damore says being conservative is like being “gay in the 1950s.”
July 26, 2017
Jeet Heer
Why did
The New York Times
paint Trump as gay-friendly?
July 26, 2017
Sarah Jones
Donald Trump will attack LGBT people whenever he’s in trouble.
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