Archive
May 2024
Archive
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West Virginia governor’s race is a battle of who can be the most anti-trans
The rhetoric is front-and-center in the state’s Republican primary, where ads have focused on who will be the most restrictive of LGBTQ+ rights.
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Federal documents don't provide enough checkboxes for all AAPI ethnicities. That may be about to change.
AAPI researchers are celebrating the federal government’s new standards for collecting more detailed race and ethnicity data, in which respondents are able to report their country of origin.
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The 19th is committed to covering the unfinished business of voting rights
Here are our plans in this pivotal election as part of our participation in the Advancing Democracy Fellowship.
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Missouri abortion ballot measure moves ahead — despite many attempts to thwart it
Organizers in Missouri submitted over 380,000 signatures for a measure to restore abortion rights, overcoming legal challenges, delays and vigorous “decline to sign” efforts led by anti-abortion groups.
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Millions of Latinas stand to be impacted by abortion bans in Florida and Arizona
While Arizona’s total abortion ban will be in effect only temporarily, it highlights how many Latinx people live in states with restrictions on abortion before fetal viability.
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The faces of college protests in four American cities
The 19th asked photographers to capture college students’ encampments and marches as they protest their schools’ and country’s relationship with Israel.
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Where does the Supreme Court stand on gender-affirming care bans?
The justices have yet to take up a case on whether statewide bans on transgender health care are unconstitutional. But an upcoming Tennessee lawsuit could be pivotal.
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She created a global movement to honor trans people — and even she’s still trying to get accurate IDs
Gwen Smith founded Transgender Day of Remembrance in 1998. Three years before that, she started updating her identity documents to reflect her gender, and she’s still working on it.
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Arizona Senate repeals 1864 abortion ban after two Republicans join Democrats
GOP Sens. Shawnna Bolick and T.J. Shope, both vocal opponents of the Civil War-era ban, backed the repeal.
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From crowded to quiet: Inside a clinic as Florida bans abortions after six weeks
At A Woman’s Choice in Jacksonville, staffers treated a surge of last-minute patients before the May 1 deadline. Now, they will have to refer most of them out of state.