The issue also ranked lowest among issues polled. The CNU poll is the second poll showing Spanberger pulling ahead.| Erin In The Morning
After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.| www.erininthemorning.com
Our service for the week to cover the news we did not carry but do not want you to miss.| www.erininthemorning.com
“I want every transgender Kansan to be able to live their lives authentically.”| Erin In The Morning
A new poll released in the Virginia governors race shows that the anti-trans attack ads led by Republican Earle-Sears is failing: Spanberger is up 10, and people don't care about trans issues.| www.erininthemorning.com
Campus officials claim to have no choice but to censor the mere mention of trans people. But that’s not actually the law.| www.erininthemorning.com
Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.| www.erininthemorning.com
From his culture war casualties to financial impropriety, Ryan Walters was a menace. Thank God he’s gone—for now, at least.| Erin In The Morning
On Tuesday night at midnight, Democrats and Republicans failed to come to a deal to keep the government open.| Erin In The Morning
Shutdown day is here, and there has been a lot of competing coverage on Republican priorities, Democrat's demands, and what shutdown politics means for LGBTQ+ people in America.| Erin In The Morning
The event is a case study in how shootings are covered in America.| Erin In The Morning
Democrats: There is no “middle ground” on equal rights. Take it from UK Labour.| Erin In The Morning
Our new service for the week to cover the news we did not carry but do not want you to miss.| Erin In The Morning
The school system has refused to capitulate, despite Trump pulling back millions in federal funds.| Erin In The Morning
A new The 19th/SurveyMonkey poll reveals that most Americans oppose bans on trans care for youth, with LGBTQ+ people overwhelmingly opposing such bans.| Erin In The Morning
UPMC bowed to Trump and abandoned its trans patients, advocates say. It may have violated state law.| Erin In The Morning
The provisions are becoming a key sticking point in the ongoing fight to keep the government open.| Erin In The Morning
As in many authoritarian campaigns, art has been recognized as a vital form of resistance—but bad actors have sought to curtail it accordingly.| Erin In The Morning
The motion comes after multiple courts have found Trump's passport gender marker ban for transgender people to likely violate their constitutional rights and US law.| Erin In The Morning
Beth Bourne, who has in the past come under fire for over-the-top anti-LGBTQ+ stunts, removed her pants and top at a Davis school board meeting.| Erin In The Morning
Around 2,000 BCH employees and untold numbers of patients were targeted by the DOJ. A judge just told them, “No.”| www.erininthemorning.com
News and discussion on trans legislation and life. Click to read Erin In The Morning, by Erin Reed, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| www.erininthemorning.com
For the safety of patients and doctors alike, health care institutions can—and must—fight back.| www.erininthemorning.com
The memo isn’t law, but it is the latest escalation in Trumpian efforts to wage war on trans people.| www.erininthemorning.com
Trump released over 70 executive orders on Monday. While orders on immigration and climate got a lot of attention, his anti-transgender order could have sweeping impacts as well.| www.erininthemorning.com
“[The] DOJ’s intent in issuing the subpoenas is not enforcement of the specific prohibitions of those laws but the chilling of medical care with which the administration disagrees ideologically.”| www.erininthemorning.com
If Planned Parenthood withholds treatment, many trans people may lose access to gender affirming care altogether, experts warn.| www.erininthemorning.com
Kaiser represents the latest battlefront in a wave of health systems either pressing pause or closing their doors on trans-affirming care for youth.| www.erininthemorning.com
The outdated myth has been debunked time and time again—but it keeps coming back.| www.erininthemorning.com
A landmark systematic review has concluded that regret rate for transgender surgeries is "remarkably low," comparing it to many other surgeries and major life decisions.| www.erininthemorning.com
The study, which has been paraded around right-wing media sources, does not evaluate the impact of surgery on transgender depression rates.| www.erininthemorning.com
Transgender people may be able to update their passports shortly.| www.erininthemorning.com
The decision is limited to the plaintiffs, and could be used to further restore funding to transgender research and care.| www.erininthemorning.com
The Supreme Court ordered several cases to be reexamined after the Skrmetti ruling, despite the decision ostensibly being a limited ruling.| www.erininthemorning.com
Today, SCOTUS released its ruling on Skrmetti, allowing Tennessee to ban transgender healthcare. The ruling was both devastating and limited, leaving many fights unsettled.| www.erininthemorning.com
The review, which was made possible by an executive order calling transgender healthcare "mutilation," reached its predetermined conclusion on its May 1st publication date.| www.erininthemorning.com
“After a brief pause, we are pleased to announce the continuation of our Gender Affirming Care services,” the organization said.| www.erininthemorning.com
With the latest trans military executive order, the administration has given up all pretense of "evidence-based care," and has moved to the kind of dehumanization meant to justify atrocity.| www.erininthemorning.com
Narratives of transgender regret have been prevalent in anti-trans media. A recent 90,000 response survey of trans people, however, shows most people are satisfied with transition.| www.erininthemorning.com
Dr. Cass's latest statements are likely to cast more doubt on the validity of the study, which has come under fire for disregarding substantial evidence on trans care.| www.erininthemorning.com
The recent report borrows from DeSantis bans on transgender care in Florida and appears designed to provide political justification for further attacks on transgender care.| www.erininthemorning.com
News and discussion on trans legislation and life.| www.erininthemorning.com
Updates come to both the transgender youth and transgender adult maps as we prepare for the 2024 election cycle.| www.erininthemorning.com
West Virginia saw dozens of anti-trans bills proposed in 2024, including a bill to close an exception allow some trans youth to obtain care. Now, virtually all of those bills are dead.| www.erininthemorning.com
On Monday, anti-trans groups released a set of highly editorialized and decontextualized leaks dubbed the "WPATH Files." A fact check reveals 216 errors, misrepresentations, and faulty citations.| www.erininthemorning.com
Rowling took to Twitter on Monday to call trans journalist and broadcaster India Willoughby "a man," "cosplaying a male fantasy," the latest in a long list of transphobic remarks from the author.| www.erininthemorning.com
Chaya Raichik, creator of the anti-LGBTQ+ account Libs of TikTok, was appointed to the state's Library Media Advisory Committee. Her posts frequently are followed by bomb threats on schools.| www.erininthemorning.com
With 16 days in the legislative session, there are some states whose risk levels must be updated to account for trends in legislatures across the United States. This map updates that risk.| www.erininthemorning.com
This is one of the most common arguments brought up in anti-trans hearings. The idea that 80% of trans people "will desist" is a complete lie that is easy to debunk.| www.erininthemorning.com
For the first time, a randomized controlled trial has been completed on gender affirming care and the results are stunning: 55% of those on care saw reduction of suicidality vs 5% of control.| www.erininthemorning.com
The map of anti-trans risk has polarized into two Americas - one where trans people have full legal protections, and one where they are persecuted by the state.| www.erininthemorning.com