Meet Raquel Willis, the transgender activist who's one of TIME's Women of the Year
"This honor was validating for my career and for my passion, but not for my womanhood," Willis tells The Advocate.
MARCH 31, 2025
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Under Trump's 'authoritarian era,' these LGBTQ+ and abortion rights activists are standing up
The organizers behind last year's Gender Liberation March tell The Advocate about how they're fighting back now.
JANUARY 30, 2025
Inside the massive protest against Project 2025 and anti-trans laws coming to D.C. (exclusive)
A renowned organizer for the upcoming Gender Liberation March tells The Advocate how you can attend — and why you should.
AUGUST 30, 2024
A Texas woman was charged with murder for having an abortion. Now, she's suing the state
Lizelle Gonzalez spent two nights in jail after being charged with murder in “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion."
APRIL 1, 2024
'Retaliation': Texas AG Paxton demands PFLAG provide names, addresses of trans members
A legal filing by PFLAG National revealed that Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas was seeking identification of transgender members.
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Alabama Supreme Court endangers IVF access by ruling frozen embryos are people
In a notable union of church and state, the Alabama Supreme Court cited Christian faith as reason to jeopardize access to in vitro fertilization (IVF).
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Abortion restrictions amount to sex-based discrimination, state Supreme Court says
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled against an antiquated anti-abortion law, with justices issuing a scathing rebuke of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision.
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
He voted for Trump. Now he’s worried his trans son will lose gender-affirming care
A Trump voter is worried that his trans son will lose gender-affirming care access.
MARCH 17, 2025
Why Laverne Cox says she won't debate transgender rights
The Orange is the New Black actor recently spoke at event for Planned Parenthood where she highlighted the connection between bans on gender-affirming care and bans on abortion.
DECEMBER 18, 2024
All Republican women in the South Carolina Senate lost their primaries — Here's why
Three women GOP State Senators joined Democrats last year to block an extreme conservative-backed bill.
JULY 1, 2024
Rhode Island advances law protecting doctors who provide abortions & gender-affirming care
Eleven years (to the day) after passing marriage equality, Rhode Island lawmakers took another notable step to protect LGBTQ+ health care.
MAY 6, 2024
Family planning and fertility services grind to halt in Alabama after devastating ruling
Family planning services in Alabama have been completely upended by an unprecedented and unscientific state Supreme Court ruling.
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Backlash to transgender health care isn’t new − but faulty science used to justify it has changed over time
As in the 1930s, opposition to trans medicine today is part of a broad reactionary movement against what some far-right groups consider the “toxic normalization” of LGBTQ people.
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Restore Roe: Biden and Harris warn supporters what a second Trump term could mean for bodily autonomy
The president, the vice president, and their spouses delivered this message loud and clear at the "Restore Roe" rally in Virginia on Tuesday.
JANUARY 23, 2024
Ohio bill would ban ejaculation without intent to conceive — with exceptions for LGBTQ+ people
The Conception Begins at Erection Act contains exceptions for men using birth control, donating sperm, masturbating, or having sex with another man or member of the LGBTQ+ community.
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ families in the second Trump presidency
Navigating in a Trump world, family formation attorney Janene Oleaga discusses the challenges and strategies for protecting reproductive rights for LGBTQ+ families
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
What is the 4B movement? And why is it rising after Donald Trump's 2024 election win?
Following the disastrous results of the recent presidential election, many women are taking to the internet to declare they are now participating in the "4B movement."
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Supreme Court blocks Idaho's ban on emergency abortions, but it's 'not a victory for pregnant patients'
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked an Idaho ban on emergency abortions, but Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says the decision "is not a victory for pregnant patients."
JUNE 27, 2024
Just one Christian Nationalist group is behind Idaho's bans on trans care and abortion
Attacks on abortion and gender-affirming care are heavily intertwined, and one group conservative hate group continues to use its influence in Idaho.
APRIL 19, 2024
'Fractured landscape:' Abortions in the U.S. are increasing, despite 'drastic' bans
Despite abortion restrictions being implemented in 21 states since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, abortions are increasing in the U.S.
MARCH 25, 2024
A South Carolina woman was forced to leave the state for an abortion. Now, she's suing
Despite being less than six weeks pregnant, Taylor Shelton said that healthcare providers would not assist her in terminating her pregnancy, nor provide her resources for services elsewhere.
FEBRUARY 21, 2024