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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]