Immigrant Rights, Reproductive Justice, and Sexual Freedom
We are now halfway through Sexual Freedom Month. This September, we at the Woodhull Freedom Foundation are highlighting our fundamental human right to sexual freedom and all that it encompasses....
View ArticleTracking Trump’s Assault on Science
On President Trump’s first day in office for his second term, he issued 26 Executive Orders; by the end of 2025 that total rose to 225 Executive Orders. The frenzied release of these orders is all part...
View ArticleLGBTQ+ Rights and Sexual Freedom
It is officially Sexual Freedom Month. This September, we at the Woodhull Freedom Foundation will be centering our attention, as always, on our fundamental human right to sexual freedom. And we...
View ArticleTelehealth and Abortion Care
Technology can facilitate sexual freedom. We at the Woodhull Freedom Foundation know this to be true. The internet provides us access to pleasure, information, and community. And critically, in the age...
View ArticleThe Women’s Tennis Association Slams Trans and Intersex Athletes with...
On June 30, 2026, to the dismay of supporters of human rights, the Supreme Court ruled that states may exclude transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports teams. The Court’s rulings in West...
View ArticleSurveillance and Abortion Care
“PREGNANT? TEXAS IS TRACKING YOU.” Billboards from Mayday Health, a nonprofit dedicated to sharing information about reproductive justice, get straight to the point. In Texas, a “dangerous surveillance...
View ArticleReproductive Justice Victory in Wyoming
When we write about the state of reproductive justice in the United States, we don’t often write with good news. Seemingly every week, there is a new, draconian threat to our fundamental human rights....
View ArticleWhat’s Happening with Sex Work Decriminalization in 2026?
Since 2019, several states have introduced bills that would decriminalize sex work. Throughout this time, Woodhull Freedom Foundation has championed these efforts by uplifting sex worker-led advocacy...
View ArticleFighting the Global Gag Rule
This year, the Trump administration drastically expanded what is known as the “global gag rule.” Across the world, people’s access to fundamental human rights will be imperiled by this decision. The...
View ArticleProtecting Trans Students’ Rights
We are here yet again, writing to you with news of another devastating attack on trans youth. On April 6, 2026, the Department of Education announced that it would terminate previous Obama- and...
View ArticleAttacking Trans People’s Human Rights
Across the country, state and federal legislators are concocting new laws and policies aimed at dehumanizing trans people. From Kansas to Texas to D.C., we have seen a slew of hateful, baseless attacks...
View ArticleThe European Parliament is Clear: Trans Women are Women
The repeated attacks on trans people’s fundamental human rights in the U.S. have been brutal. But trans communities and allies have fought back each time. Tireless activism across the country serves as...
View ArticleThe Dark Ages of Age-Verification
Last summer, the Supreme Court’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton weakened the First Amendment rights of adults, in the name of “protecting children.” Paxton centers on a Texas law that...
View ArticleLast Year Was Brutal for LGBTQ+ Communities, But We Fought Back
2025 was brutal for LGBTQ+ communities. We covered an array of attacks on queer and trans rights, from President Trump’s January 28, 2025, Executive Order, to the destruction of gender-affirming...
View ArticleAge Verification Survival Guide
We at the Woodhull Freedom Foundation have repeatedly sounded the alarm on age verification online, which threatens our fundamental human right to sexual freedom and the sanctity of the 1st Amendment....
View ArticleAccessing Sex Ed
Accessing your fundamental human right to comprehensive sexual education should not depend on where you live. And yet, it absolutely does. As Nadra Nittle reports, recent research from the national...
View ArticleThe Child Care Funding Crisis
Across the U.S., states are quietly cutting child care funding, including by slashing the rates they pay providers on behalf of low-income families. To Ruth Friedman, the child care crisis, put simply,...
View ArticleMichigan’s “Pregnancy Exclusion” Law
Under the Michigan Estates and Protected Individuals Code, a person can designate a patient advocate to determine their medical care, should they be unable to make or communicate their own decisions....
View ArticleICE’s Harm to Pregnant Immigrants and their Children
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues its reign of terror across the U.S. Families are being torn apart; communities are on edge as person after person is abducted in violent,...
View ArticleCensorship Behind Bars
In 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1078 into law. Now, school curricula in the state are protected from gender- and race-based book bans. Certainly, this is a good thing; fighting...
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