2+ hour, 37+ min ago   (1193+ words) When New York magazine published an investigative report that found Republican Representative Nancy Mace had engaged in abusive, alcoholic, and inappropriate behavior with her staff, it came as no surprise to me. She had gone down a very familiar path…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago   (1745+ words) The Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared poised Tuesday to allow states to ban transgender athletes from playing on girls' and women's sports teams. The first case was from Idaho, involving college senior Lindsay Hecox, who has attempted to drop her…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1525+ words) The Supreme Court appears likely to uphold laws in Idaho and West Virginia that forbid some transgender students from participating in school sports, but the court's conservative members seemed divided on how comprehensive the defeat for transgender rights would be....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1741+ words) Representative Sarah McBride'the first out transgender member of Congress'had to lobby Republicans to strike down an anti-trans bill because she knew her Democratic colleagues abandoned her. "We're most interested in the caucus, right? But we also suspected we might lose…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1688+ words) The Trump administration is stripping funding for gender-affirming care. The new rule, announced by the Department of Health and Human Services Thursday, virtually bans gender-affirming care at any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital, even if the care itself is not paid…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1737+ words) North Carolina's Randolph County chose to dissolve its entire library board rather than allow a book about a trans child to sit on the shelves." Last week, the county Board of Commissioners voted 32 to dismiss every single member of the…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (231+ words) From Oklahoma to Indiana to Alabama, state schools are bending over backward'suspending student magazines and even disciplining instructors'to preemptively satisfy the Trump administration. A graduate student at the University of Oklahoma is the latest in a growing list of college…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (413+ words) The internet is going gaga for gay sheep of late. Or, more precisely, the wool from gay sheep. In the U.S. and Europe, sheep are raised primarily for their meat, called "lamb" when it comes from animals slaughtered under 12 months. Farmers…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (116+ words) Histories of the epidemic tend to focus on coastal cities, but the response was very different in the middle of the country. In November 1987, Shilts himself arrived in the Twin Cities. He was there to promote his new book, but…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1703+ words) The conservative-majority Supreme Court denied a challenge Monday to its landmark same-sex marriage ruling. The Supreme Court rejected a long-shot petition from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who refused to sign marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples…...