by Nick Fulton | Apr 6, 2026 | Anti-trans, data-collection, Driver's License, Indiana, Kansas, News, Surveillance, Tennessee, Texas
Kansas, Texas, Indiana, Tennessee, and other states are creating lists of trans people, moves that advocates say would make it nearly impossible to exist in a trans body. In February, Kansas revoked the state identification cards and birth certificates of trans residents, making it the first state to cancel documents of individuals who changed their gender markers. The move was made possible…
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by Erin Reed | Feb 17, 2026 | Anti-trans, bathroom bills, Discrimination, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, News Analysis, transgender bans
In the modern anti-transgender panic, several states have passed laws banning transgender people from restrooms consistent with their gender identity. Early bills focused primarily on K-12 schools, but the scope quickly expanded. Some states extended bans to even private colleges and universities. Others adopted sweeping “government building” prohibitions, barring transgender people from restrooms…
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by Lauren Rankin | Feb 7, 2026 | Abortion, Criminalization, Dobbs v. Jackson, HIPAA, Indiana, News Analysis, Reproductive Care, Reproductive Rights, Surveillance
An anti-choice group called “Voices for Life” is trying a new strategy to put a target on the backs of abortion providers and recipients in the state, seeking to make potentially identifying details about them publicly available. If the group succeeds in forcing Indiana to publicly release records associated with all abortions performed there, abortion providers won’t be facing abstract…
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by Elisha Brown | Jan 30, 2026 | Abortion, abortion bans, Abortion Pills, Criminalization, Fetal Personhood, Florida, Indiana, medication abortion, mifepristone, misoprostol, News, Propaganda, Reproductive Rights, South Carolina, Wisconsin
Even though many legislative sessions only just convened across the country this month, efforts to restrict access to abortion pills are in full swing, particularly in states that already ban abortion. Nearly 200 anti-abortion bills have been introduced in 29 states, according to an estimate by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization. “In 2026…
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by Jonathan Shorman | Dec 19, 2025 | Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Department of Justice (DOJ), DHS, doj, elections, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, News, SAVE Act, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Trump Administration, US Department of Justice, Utah, Virginia, voter roll purges, Voter Rolls, Voter Suppression, Voting Rights, Wisconsin, Wyoming
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require election officials to remove any alleged ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls. The agreement — called a memorandum of understanding, or MOU — would hand the federal government a major role in election administration…
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