A Federal Gun Law Has Protected Domestic Violence Survivors for 30 Years. Now SCOTUS Will Decide Its Fate.
Silas Stein/dpa via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For nearly 30 years, federal law has banned people who have domestic-violence restraining orders from possessing guns. It’s a sensible policy reflecting a set of stark statistics: Women whose abusers have access to guns are…
The Hell of Providing Health Care in a Post-Dobbs America
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In her 32 years as an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist, Mary Norine Walsh has seen very sick patients and many deaths. “We’re not like orthopedists who only see one in their entire career,” says Walsh, a physician…
Here Is All the Evidence You Needed That Drag Bans Are About Erasing Trans Existence
Reginald Mathalone/NurPhoto/Associated Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, Butte, Montana became the first documented place to legally cancel an event because the speaker is trans. As NBC Montana reported, a lawyer with Butte-Silver Bow County informed the local library that its LGBTQ history event…
A Massive Leak Spotlights the Extremism of an Anti-Trans Medical Group
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Michelle Cretella had a problem. In 2018, Cretella, then-president of the American College of Pediatricians, was speaking to the group’s board of directors about a reputation crisis she’d been trying to shake for years, ever since the Southern Poverty…
Despite Pleas From Nonbinary Son, Montana Governor Signs Anti-Trans Bill Banning Care
Thom Bridge/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, Montana joined an alarming number of states to ban gender-affirming health care for minors when its Republican governor, Greg Gianforte, signed a bill that had been condemned as “unconscionable” by the state’s first openly transgender…
Montana Republicans Just Barred the State’s First Trans Woman Lawmaker From the House Floor
Thom Bridge/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday, the Montana House of Representatives officially stripped the state’s first trans lawmaker of her ability to speak in the legislature. In a 62-38 vote, the GOP-majority House banned Rep. Zooey Zephyr from the floor,…