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Today at Ms. | April 15, 2025
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Advocates Beat 91 Percent of Last Year’s Anti-LGBTQ Bills. How? [[link removed]]
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(Screenshot via Idaho In Session / photo provided by Adam Polaski / screenshot via First Alert 6 / screenshot via Emerging Issues Committee Hearing on HJR 53; design by Sam Donndelinger)
By Hope Pisoni | While the trans community still faces unprecedented legislative attacks, with 49 bills passing into law in 2024, there are key strategies that activists are using to fight back.
On March 6, Montana State Representatives Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell stood up to speak against two of the 527 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in U.S. state legislatures this year. One bill would ban drag performances and pride marches as “hypersexualized shows,” and the other would require “the emergency removal of a child who is transitioning gender with the support of a parent” by state Child Protective Services.
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Nice Girls Don’t Talk Trash: The Double Standards Still Holding Back Women in Sports [[link removed]]
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By Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford | For over a century, women athletes have battled double standards that question their toughness, competitiveness and right to take up space. From early fears that competition would ruin their femininity to modern-day outrage over trash talk and physical play, the message has remained: Be strong, but not too strong. While stars like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have shattered records and stereotypes, lingering biases continue to limit how women—especially women of color—are allowed to perform, both on and off the court.
The fight for full inclusion in sports isn’t over; it’s simply entered a new chapter.
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Now They Want to Charge Women With Killing Their ‘Preborn’ Babies [[link removed]]
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By Bonnie Fuller | In a terrifying escalation of the post-Roe crackdown, Republican lawmakers in multiple states are pushing laws that would allow women to be charged with murder—and even face the death penalty—for having an abortion.
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As we reckon with an administration hostile to equal rights, feminists will continue to fight. To help keep hope, we must remember and celebrate recent wins.
One of those wins is the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which took effect on June 27, 2023. This is a landmark piece of legislation that prohibits discrimination and ensures workplace accommodations related to pregnancy for workers. But is the PWFA safe, or will it be threatened by the Trump administration’s crusade against reproductive rights and justice?
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