I’m a Cop With a Trans Daughter. Lawmakers Want Me to Arrest the Doctors Who Saved Her Life.
Mother Jones illustration; Photo courtesy of David Fuller Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said it was child abuse to give transgender teens gender-affirming health care like puberty blockers or hormone therapy. Now, Alabama lawmakers are on…
Transgender Teens and Their Families Prepare to Flee Texas
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In a small town about an hour outside Dallas, a transgender teen I’ll call Amber began plotting out a safety plan with her mom. It was late February, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had just ordered child…
ACLU Sues Texas Over Investigation of Parents With Transgender Child
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.Eric Gay/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal, an LGBTQ civil rights organization, filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of a Texas family that says it is being investigated by the state…
Public Funding Is Pouring Into Texas’ Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers While Abortion Access Hangs in the Balance
Mother Jones illustration; Getty; Unsplash Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news outlet. After finding out she was pregnant last fall, B.Z. made an appointment at a Texas crisis pregnancy center, believing…
Saturday Was the 49th Anniversary of Roe. The Landmark Ruling May Not See Its 50th.
Anti-abortion activists counter-demonstrate as pro-choice activists participate in a “flash-mob” demonstration outside of the US Supreme Court on January 22, 2022 in Washington, DC.ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Saturday marked the 49th anniversary of the 1973 Supreme…
The Pandemic Has Been Hard for Women Workers. A Labor Economist Breaks It Down for Us.
In our January + February 2022 cover story, we attempted to answer a simple question: What the hell happened to labor since the pandemic began? It wasn’t one thing. But this package—through a series of worker stories as told in their own voices, interviews with experts, and dissections of media narratives—attempts to make sense of the…