For transgender Americans, passports just got a lot more complicated
The day after President Trump returned to office, Lisa Suhay took her 21-year-old daughter, Mellow, to a passport office in Norfolk, Va., where they live.Getting…
Coup or no coup? It may not matter
Hello and happy Thursday. Week three, day four. Chaos seems like an insufficient term to grasp the confusion and fear that has overtaken many of…
Bonta to defend California immigrant, LGBTQ+ students from Trump orders
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta vowed Tuesday to defend state educators and their immigrant and LGBTQ+ students against Trump administration threats, saying California laws requiring…
CDC scrubs research databases referencing sexual orientation and gender identity
Websites on HPV vaccinations, data on high schoolers’ health habits, information on programs to end violence against women and girls: all began disappearing from government…
More than half of women in poll don’t like Trump, or his policies
Hello and happy Thursday. The whirlwind continues. On Wednesday, the White House further backed away from its sweeping and potentially devastating freeze on federal funding…
Trump signs order to defund gender transitions for LGBTQ youth | LGBTQ News
LGBTQ rights group GLADD says Trump’s rhetoric is ‘appallingly inaccurate, incoherent, and extreme’.United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to halt the…
Fast vs. safe in fire cleanups
Hello and happy Tuesday. President Trump, as you probably know, visited Los Angeles on Friday, greeting Gov. Gavin Newsom on the tarmac. Their handshake really…
British study finds children citing distress over gender dysphoria rose 50-fold
1 of 2 | L.A. Pride parade participants walk along Hollywood Boulevard in 2023. On Friday, British researchers reported that the number of children telling…
Trump’s rebuke to ‘gender ideology’ changes federal policy and sets up clash with California
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s executive order rejecting liberal “gender ideology” and restoring the “biological truth” of two sexes sets the stage for a legal battle in…
Trump goes hard at sanctuary cities
Hello and happy Thursday. It’s day four of Trump 2.0 and things are moving fast. Today’s topic is immigration — though we could just as…
Trump calls for unity while attacking perceived enemies
Hello and happy Tuesday. President Trump was sworn in to his second term on a cold but sunny Washington afternoon Monday, offering up multiple speeches…
Could the L.A. fires change how California responds to deportations?
Hello and happy Thursday, though the fires rage on. There are four days until the inauguration, but already the Trump effect is in effect. Last…
As fires rage, so do rumors and agendas
Hello and happy Tuesday, though with great respect for the ongoing catastrophe in Los Angeles. There are six days until the inauguration, and President-elect Donald…
Essential Politics: Are Karen Bass and Kamala Harris frenemies?
WASHINGTON — I was first introduced to the concept of frenemies in sixth grade after a girl, who I thought was a friend, told my crush…
‘The mountain is screaming at you’: L.A. fires become a collective trauma
More than 1,100 homes, businesses and other buildings have been lost in the L.A. fires, and many more thousands of people have been displaced. It…
Newsom’s new budget sounds more Republican than radical left
Hello and happy Tuesday. There are 13 days until the inauguration and folks, my vacation was not long enough. But here we are, and I’m…
Paris Hilton, gender parity, Siberian tigers: 3 good-news stories for the holidays
Hello and happy Thursday. There are 32 days until the inauguration and, bust out the tissues, this is my last newsletter until Jan. 7. That…
As states fight over abortion laws, California could get dragged in
Hello and happy Tuesday. There are 34 days until the inauguration, and today we’re talking about the coming legal war over states’ rights. Of course,…
At Kenya’s ‘Maasai Olympics’, women run to bridge the gender gap | In Pictures News
A crowd erupts in cheers as a young Maasai woman pelts over the finish line, the latest participant in the “Maasai Olympics”, a reimagining of…
The fall of Syria brings hope to the family of Austin Tice
Hello and happy Thursday. American journalist Austin Tice has been held captive in Syria for 4,504 days, but his family is, for the first time…