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…
Scientists Rejoice! Studying Cannabis Is About to Get a Lot Easier
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After more than 50 years as a Schedule I substance, marijuana is slated to get reclassified. In a historic shift, the Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly plans to modify the drug’s designation under the Controlled Substances…
Trump Would Gut and Privatize US Climate and Weather Agency, Experts Fear
Then-President Donald Trump shows reporters a Sharpie-altered NOAA hurricane forecast on September 4, 2019.Evan Vucci/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate experts fear Donald Trump will follow a blueprint created by his allies to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), disbanding its work…
Indonesian Communities Are Reviving Coral Reefs Decimated by Humans
Community members assemble reef stars to aid in coral restoration.The Ocean Agency This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Out among a scattering of islands spilled like beads into the Indonesian shallows, an extended experiment in coral restoration has revealed something marvelous: With a tender touch and a…
Are You Better Off Than Four Years Ago? OMG You Have Got to Be Kidding Me.
Here’s Trump four years ago. At his daily briefing that day, April 5, he said the federal government had stockpiled 29 million doses of hydroxychloroquine. “What do you have to lose?” he said.Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN…