We’re thrilled to announce the return of Women Winning’s Annual Luncheon–Monday, June 3rd at the Depot in Minneapolis! We’re thrilled to welcome Senator Laphonza Butler, former head of California SEIU and EMILY's List, as our featured speaker this year!

Table sponsorships for this unforgettable event are now available! 

Circle, highlight, and bold June 3rd on your calendars–we can’t wait to see you there!

DISCLAIMER: Senator Butler is appearing at this event only as a featured speaker and is not asking for funds or donations.

On Sunday, April 13, Women Winning's Executive Director, Nevada Littlewolf led the "Diversity in Politics" series conversation at the First Unitarian Society of Minnesota. She discussed ways to support 2024 candidates and campaigns, particularly in Greater Minnesota, where women, young adults, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities have difficulty getting seats at decision-making tables. Nevada highlighted important research and Women Winning's target campaigns to unseat anti-choice incumbents. She was joined by Beth Peterson from Vote Run Lead. The event was full of meaningful programming, provided a copy of the "Re-Imagining Public Safety" discussion guide and hosted a conversation on Transforming Public Safety. Junauda Petrus read from her Minnesota Book Award–nominated storybook, Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? Deneal Trueblood-Lynch and cast performed her play Secrets. The 1st Annual Badass Minnesotan winners were announced. Transformational spoken word artist Muna Abdulahi performed.

Insurance companies covering services for people seeking to change their gender could become required under Minnesota law if a proposal being considered by lawmakers is approved.

Authored by Rep. Leigh Finke (DFL-St. Paul), legislators are discussing a bill that would prohibit a health plan that covers physical or mental health services from excluding coverage for "medically necessary gender-affirming care, or requiring gender-affirming treatments. This clarifies statutory coverage of gender-affirming care into law," Rep. Finke told the House Health Finance and Policy Committee on Thursday. "We want to make sure that all gaps are closed."

Last week, the Senate passed Sen. Zaynab Mohamed’s tenants' rights bill that contained a slate of new renter protections, along with a set of regulations aimed at apartment buildings where a single utility meter is shared by all tenants, which has meant tenants don't get the same protections as other utility customers. DFL lawmakers hope the pair of bills will make a difference for the nearly 1.3 million Minnesotans who rent their homes, after a bill last year dedicated one-time money and a metro-area sales tax to affordable housing and rental aid. "We wanted to bring policies that made that field more of a balanced one" between renters and landlords, said Mohamed.

Moyle v. United States should have been a very easy case. A federal law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), requires nearly all hospitals to provide “such treatment as may be required to stabilize the medical condition” of “any individual” who arrives at the hospital’s ER with an “emergency medical condition.” Though the law does not specifically mention abortions, EMTALA is written in capacious terms — requiring covered hospitals to perform an emergency abortion when that is the appropriate treatment to resolve a patient’s medical emergency. 

And yet, last January, the Supreme Court effectively nullified EMTALA, at least for patients who require abortion. Moyle, which the Court will hear the last full week of April, asks whether this nullification should be made permanent.