Essays
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The current, running column: essays and analysis on what’s happening now, filed with the same standards as everything else here.
Roughly one considered piece a week — less hot take, more second look.
Kansas SB 244 goes to trial on September 29, 2026, in Douglas County District Court. The four-day proceeding consolidates two challenges to a 2026…
Virginia’s proposed Board of Health rule barring transgender women and girls from female-only sports teams, locker rooms and changing areas is dead. Governor Abigail…
On September 9, at a Treaty 6 gathering at Fort Pitt, Saskatchewan, the Saddle Lake Cree Nation said something I had not heard a…
On September 7, Federal News Network reported that the Pentagon has been searching service members’ protected medical records to find troops with a history…
Do you dream of becoming a woman and living it 24/7? Is it reality or fantasy that drives you? Many of us have fantasized…
The Associated Press reported on September 14, 2026, that a growing number of Democratic officials are backing away from their party’s positions on transgender…
The words of others don’t define me. How could they? In many instances, those “others” don’t even know me. They see me and then…
Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation ruled on July 22, 2026 that four transgender applicants may change the gender marker and name on their civil…
Intelligent, well-spoken, poised, confident, and comfortable as a transgender woman, Pauline Park is driven to make a difference and has been a lightning rod…
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