Jane Migliara Brigham

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The US federal government is poised to codify that trans lives are inherently wasteful and effectively end transition for most people across the entire United States.

The bill would be both the first federal trans sports ban, and also codify sex as only referring to how people were born.

There is only one decent option for dealing with trans people in gendered spaces: let us go where we feel we belong.  Any other option makes us look and feel ridiculous, and insisting that we follow some other option makes you look ridiculous.

Missed Connections With Tall Girls is, first and foremost, a book about being homeless and broke.

This hearing shows that parental groups and tech lobbyists agree on the broad strokes of what children’s access to the internet should look like.

Broadly, this new precedent could mean that any faith-based organization now has free license to discriminate based on internal policies. It remains to be seen if this will remain state-wide precedent or be elevated to a SCOTUS case.

The suspension appears to be a response to calculated right-wing attacks. By Jane Migliara Brigham Yesterday, a trans instructor at the University of Oklahoma was put on administrative leave following poorly-evidenced complaints of discrimination by a student with deep ties to christian nationalist politics. Last month, Samantha Fulnecky, a junior