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DeSantis-Stacked Medical Boards Ramp Up Bans on Care for Trans Youth
Last Friday’s public hearing featured impassioned pleas from trans kids, who stand to lose access to lifesaving care in Florida.
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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Reproductive Rights Activists Charged Under Law Intended to Protect Abortion Clinics
The Justice Department is calling graffiti on anti-abortion centers a threat to “reproductive health services facilities.”
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The Crackdown on Cop City Protesters Is So Brutal Because of the Movement's Success
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Biden’s Border Plan Drapes Trump Policies in Liberal Rhetoric
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Liberals Rose to Fight the Assault on Abortion — but Not Trans Rights
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Black Liberation Elder to Be Freed From Prison — but Only on His Deathbed
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Midterms Show Republican Anti-Abortion Agenda Relies on Minority Rule
But that doesn’t mean we can rest easy in the fight for reproductive justice.
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Michigan’s New Anti-Trans Bill Threatens Care-Providing Parents With Life in Prison
And in Congress, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to bring the same penalty to the national level.