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Anti-'woke’ bills could affect LGBTQ+ sensitivity training for eldercare, advocates worry
As states consider bills restricting discussions on diversity in schools, Florida and Tennessee both have bills that may have effects far beyond the classroom.
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North Carolina no longer requires a doctor's prescription for birth control. But who can afford it?
The state joined more than a dozen other states in allowing pharmacists to prescribe contraceptives, but access still depends in part on whether insurance companies will cover the cost.
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Texas’ six-week abortion ban is still causing more than twice as many patients at clinics in nearby states
Providers in neighboring states are struggling to treat all the Texans traveling for abortions — and they still don’t know what the future holds.
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Where do the Olympic Games stand in terms of gender equality?
For a decade, Michele Donnelly has looked beyond basic numbers to understand the scope of inequality between men and women’s sporting events at the Olympic Games.
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She says her school kicked her out for being trans. She wants the rules to change.
Kalie Hargrove has a Title IX complaint against Lincoln Christian University — plus joined a class-action suit challenging a loophole that lets religious schools be exempted from rules that ban discrimination.
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The Violence Against Women Act may finally get renewed — without a proposed gun safety provision
The 1994 law expired three years ago, but renewal stalled in the Senate over a gun safety provision. A bipartisan compromise introduced Wednesday would not close what is known as the ‘boyfriend loophole.’
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More states want to restrict how LGBTQ+ people, issues are discussed in schools
At least seven state legislatures are discussing whether to regulate how textbooks, teachers and school curriculums talk about gender and sexualities.
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More Black women are leading U.S. law schools and changing the conversation on race and gender
A rising cohort of new leaders want to help their institutions better understand the country’s history and how it inextricably shapes the law today.