The UK’s New Study on Gender Affirming Care Misses the Mark in So Many Ways
Protesters gathered in August 2021 outside the office of the Prime Minister demanding an end to discrimination against the trans community in the United Kingdom.Vuk Valcic / ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last month, the UK’s four-year-long review of medical interventions for transgender…
How My Campus Avoided a Horrible Protest Showdown
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.How—in a world that increasingly feels like it’s under unmanageable stress—can we maintain the sense of community, and the actual communities, that we need to both help alleviate and survive those stresses? It’s a question that our country has…
Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung spent four years in medical school, four years in an OB-GYN residency, and three years in a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship learning how to care for high-risk pregnant patients. In her decade-plus of medical…
More Than a Million Adults Have Legal Guardians. Seven States Won’t Let Them Vote.
Tèa Kvetenadze/New York Daily News/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last month, the Department of Justice released new guidance reaffirming disabled people’s right to vote, and the ways that their voting rights are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. “For too long,” the…
U.S. Senate in FAA bill adds flights at Washington National, bucking local opponents
Delta supports adding flights to Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport. Courtesy Hartsfield-Jackson International Facebook page After hours of uncertainty Thursday, the U.S. Senate struck a deal to reauthorize several Federal Aviation Authority programs for the next five years, though Maryland and Virginia senators were vehemently opposed and lawmakers hoping to attach unrelated provisions lost out.…
Lawmaker mothers with children in tow are still few in numbers but bring often missing perspective
Rep. Anne Allen Westbrook talks to Minority Caucus Whip Sam Park during the 2024 legislative session. Westbrook’s home is 228 miles away in Savannah. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder A lactation pod at the state Capitol. An official “baby of the House.” A makeshift nursery in a small office once reserved for freshman senators. The landscape at…