“Save Our Children” Redux: How History, Political Psychology, and a Shifting Media Landscape Help Explain Today’s Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
Backlash is a common response to civil rights victories, and the LGBTQIA+-rights movement is no exception. After a decade of significant legal victories between the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s—ranging from […]
Under (Conduct-Based) Attack: Familiar Discrimination and The Trans Care Bans
Transgender youth are under attack. Facing an already-dire mental health crisis, trans adolescents now confront state legislatures that have enacted sweeping bans on gender-affirming medical care. These prohibitions have barred […]
Black, Trans(gressive) Lives: Furtive Blackness & The Surround of Extralegal Violence
When writing articles for law journals, I often find myself in a bit of a panic. No, not panic in the sense that I am overwhelmed with erratic thoughts nor […]
“This Ain’t Texas”: The Thirteenth Amendment’s Role In Challenging Restrictionist States’ Extraterritorial Surveillance of People Seeking Abortions and Gender-Affirming Care
Since the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade, holding that the right to choose to have an abortion is no longer constitutionally protected, […]
Religious Exemptions to Anti-Discrimination Law: Children’s Rights in the Constitutional Calculus
Increasingly, religious actors in the public sphere—whether in the provision of goods and services (Masterpiece Cakeshop) or in government contracting (Fulton)—are simply invoking a person’s sexual orientation as inconsistent with […]
Keynote Speech From “Transcendence: Legal Efforts To Protect And Advance LGBTQIA Youth Rights”
We have always been here. Transgender people have always been here. We are part of what it means to be human. We are as old as humanity itself. If every […]
Remarks on “Transcendence: Legal Efforts to Protect and Advance LGBTQIA Youth Rights”
In my role as the director of a grassroots legal services project whose mission is to serve unhoused Queer and Trans youth, I thought I was spending a lot of […]
Remarks on “Transcendence: Legal Efforts to Protect and Advance LGBTQIA+ Youth Rights”
This Symposium comes at an agonizing time for trans youth in our country. In 2021, one state passed a law categorically banning gender affirming medical care for transgender youth; four […]