Essays
Ideas worth sitting with.
Fresh essays and analysis — one thoughtful piece at a time.
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.
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…
Twenty states, the District of Columbia and the governor of Pennsylvania went to federal court in Boston on September 2 to stop a rule…
The Justice Department sued Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools on September 1, 2026, alleging its transgender student guideline violates FERPA and the Protection of…
On August 25, a federal judge in Houston struck down Texas Senate Bill 12 for the second time since 2023, declaring the state’s restriction…
On August 20th, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation published a new estimate of how many of us there are, and the number was higher…
Republicans have long championed states' rights on education and beyond — until California chose to protect transgender athletes, and Washington sued to overrule it.
A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department’s attempt to force California to exclude transgender girls from girls’ school sports under Title IX.
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