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.
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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.
On Friday, August 28, 2026, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court ruling that barred…
The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles has stopped accepting its Declaration of Gender Change form, which transgender Ohioans used for years to update the…
New Jersey enacted a shield law on August 20, 2026, barring state agencies and courts from assisting out-of-state investigations into reproductive and gender-affirming health…
On the road we travel, life can bring unforeseen turns and surprises as we stumble through our days. After you spend 10, 20, 30,…
A fact-based summary of the CMS final rule barring federal Medicaid and CHIP funds from covering most gender-affirming care for minors, effective October 13,…
A federal court vacated the provision of a Trump administration rule that excluded certain gender-affirming care from the ACA's essential health benefits.
On August 19, Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Maryland rewrote the regulation that governs how staff handle a student’s gender identity. The amended…
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