I’m Orion Rummler, LGBTQ+ reporter for The 19th based in Washington, D.C. My reporting ranges from health policy explainers and court deep dives to statehouse breaking news and features on LGBTQ+ daily life. My priority is to inform our readers about how U.S. politics are shaping the future for LGBTQ+ Americans, and how LGBTQ+ people are shaping the future for all of us.
My reporting has won an Excellence in Journalism Award from the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists and has been twice nominated for GLAAD’s Outstanding Online Journalism Award. For our newsroom’s four-part series that won a national Edward R. Murrow Award, I wrote a story on what it’s like to be a pregnant transgender man in America.
My work has appeared in CBS News, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” PBS NewsHour, the Huffington Post, USA Today, and Teen Vogue, among other outlets. I have reported from the White House, the State Department, the Education Department, outside the Supreme Court, inside Capitol Hill, and at home with my cats.
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