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Right-Wing Appeals Court Blocks Arkansas Ban on Trans Health Care
The injunction against a law banning gender-affirming medical care for trans children holds lessons for the moderates who have enabled GOP bigotry.
Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, and the New York Times, among others. She is the associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life.”
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