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…
Texas Bill’s Proposed Pleasure Ban
It might be unsurprising, but that doesn’t make it any less shocking: Republicans in Texas have introduced H.B. 1549, a bill that would restrict sales of pleasure products at “big-box” stores and other non-adult retailers. The bill carries significant penalties…
Banning Book Bans in New Jersey
Soon, the year of 2024 is coming to a close. It’s been, to put it mildly, a horrific year for human rights, and our right to free speech is no exception. But where there has been repression, there has been…
Texas’ H.B. 991: An Unconscionable Attack on Abortion Rights and Free Speech
Texas’s new bill H.B. 991, known as the Women and Child Safety Act, has little to do with protecting women or children. Rather, under the guise of concern for people’s wellbeing, H.B. 911 attacks Texans’ most fundamental human rights to…