The majority upholds state bans on trans athletes, sidelinging key evidence, scientific fact, and its own logic upholding trans rights in employment.
Alison Gash
Alison Gash is a professor of political science at the University of Oregon and the author of Below the Radar: How Silence Can Save Civil Rights. @fourbees.bsky.social
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Chiles v. Salazar: A New Frontier of Speech
In its 8–1 ruling on Colorado’s conversion therapy ban, the Supreme Court recast mental health care as protected expression.
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The Gay Conversion Therapy Case and Its Discontents
If the oral arguments earlier this month offer any indication, the Supreme Court will uphold the banned practice—and then some.
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Alito’s Same-Sex Wedding Panic Threatens LGBTQ Rights
His opinion for the Supreme Court Majority in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case involving parents opting out of a children’s book about a same-sex wedding, has big implications.
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The Dangerous Trans-Rights Decision from the Supreme Court
Upholding Tennessee’s law banning hormone therapies and other treatments for trans youth alone relied on legal gymnastics and revived a long-discredited opinion from the 1970s.
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Ten Years After Obergefell: Is Same-Sex Marriage Safe?
The justices aching to revisit marriage equality, the conservative war on trans Americans, and the Trump administration’s hostility to civil rights make this an uneasy anniversary of the landmark decision.
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How Trump Will Roll Back Obama’s Progress on Gay Rights
The new administration poses a serious threat to LGBT people.
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The Conversation We’re Not Having About Rape
The problem is much bigger than Trump—so why aren’t we talking about it?
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After Orlando, the Road to Equality Just Got Longer
The shootings in Orlando and debates over transgender bathroom access show that marriage is only the beginning in the push for full equality.
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Adoptive gay parents win another Supreme Court victory (mostly)
On March 7th, the Alabama Supreme Court was dealt yet another blow in its crusade to strip gays and lesbians of their relationship and familial rights. This time, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legal status of a nonbiological mother, known in court documents as V.L., who was embroiled in a heated custody battle with […]
