Dobbs Had the Opposite Effect Conservatives Intended
New data shows that telehealth abortions, and shield laws, have helped drive the post-Dobbs rise in abortions nationwide.Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Something curious has happened since the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision in June 2022: More people have…
Yet Another Republican Comes Out Against No-Fault Divorce
Zach D Roberts/ZUMA Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Erstwhile GOP presidential candidate and current vice-presidential hopeful Ben Carson has joined right-wing peers like Speaker of the House Mike Johnson in supporting the end—or at least the rolling back—of no-fault divorce laws across the…
Learning to Love My Trans Self After Conversion Therapy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Growing up, Myles Markham always felt like an outsider. Markham was multiracial in small, mostly white Florida towns. And they were queer. “I was swimming in water that told me that who I was, what I was, needed to change…
First They Tried to “Cure” Gayness. Now They’re Fixated on “Healing” Trans People.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The conversion therapists met last November at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip. Behind the closed doors and drawn blinds of a Hampton Inn conference room, a middle-aged woman wearing white stockings and a Virgin Mary blue dress…
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…