Erin Reed

6 days 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. Ohio State Rep. Gary Click has been a prominent figure in the national push to legislate against transgender rights. As the lead author of Ohio’s gender-affirming care ban, Click sparked one of the state’s most high-profile political battles when Republican Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed the measure, triggering a legislative showdown.

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 Tuesday, the Supreme Court gave the green light for the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military service to take effect—staying lower courtrulings that had found the policy blatantly unconstitutional. Those courts had determined the ban violated equal protection guarantees and was driven by anti-transgender animus, not military necessity.

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 Friday, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed three anti-transgender bills that had cleared the state’s Republican-controlled legislature. One of the measures would have prohibited transgender individuals from updating the gender marker on their birth certificates—a process already mired in legal and bureaucratic hurdles due to existing law.

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 Thursday, May 1, the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, now helmed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., released a report masquerading as science but serving as a blunt instrument of ideological warfare against transgender youth. Commissioned under Trump’s Jan.

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. Last night, Canada’s Liberal Party, led by Mark Carney, secured a victory in the 2025 federal election. Though the party fell short of an outright majority, it will retain control of the government.