Erin Reed

1 week ago | erininthemorning.com | Erin Reed

Erin In The Morning is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber. The assault on transgender adult healthcare has long been a quiet undercurrent in right-wing circles—now, it's breaking into full view. Anti-trans organizations have floated raising the age limit for care to 25 for years, and GOP architects of youth care bans have been explicit: the real goal is to eliminate gender-affirming care entirely.

1 week ago | erininthemorning.com | Erin Reed

Erin In The Morning is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber. On Wednesday, the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a $1.3 billion budget bill that included a transgender sports ban—the first such measure to pass any legislative chamber in a blue state. Rather than voting to strike down the provision, Democrats advanced an amendment allowing the ban to go into effect only after its impacts are studied.

2 weeks ago | erininthemorning.com | Erin Reed

Erin In The Morning is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber. News is emerging that the Department of Health and Human Services is preparing to release a review of transgender care intentionally slanted to oppose it.

2 weeks ago | erininthemorning.com | Erin Reed

Erin In The Morning is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber. On Tuesday, Montana’s House considered Senate Bill 164, legislation that would classify gender-affirming care for transgender youth as felony child endangerment. The bill would not only target doctors and nurses, but also parents—including those merely passing through the state.

2 weeks ago | erininthemorning.com | Erin Reed

Erin In The Morning is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber. In an interview Sunday on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures, Alabama Senator and former football coach Tommy Tuberville claimed that “entire men’s teams… women’s teams are turning trans.” Tuberville previously served as the primary sponsor of a national transgender sports ban, which was defeated in the U.S. Senate earlier this year.