Madison Pauly

Investigative Reporter at Mother Jones

Reporter @MotherJones, @MoJoUnion member. Gender, courts, justice. mpauly at motherjones dot com

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“An Anti-Trans Fever Dream”: HHS Publishes Attack on Gender-Affirming Youth Care

1 week ago | motherjones.com | Henry Carnell |Madison Pauly

Three months ago, Donald Trump’s administration issued an executive order attempting to stamp out standard-of-care medical treatments for transgender children. Doctors who provided such treatments would be prosecuted, it promised; hospitals would lose all federal funding. Buried in that order was a clause directing the top federal health agency to publish, within 90 days, a review of scientific evidence and “best practices” for treating gender dysphoria in children.
The Latest Supreme Court case targeting the ACA comes from a longtime anti-gay activist

3 weeks ago | motherjones.com | Madison Pauly

For over a decade, Americans with private health insurance have enjoyed free access to dozens of types of preventive healthcare: cholesterol medication, prenatal care, and many types of cancer screenings, as well as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the “miracle drug” that prevents HIV infection. But on Monday, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could gut the part of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurers to cover these services at zero cost to patients. Kennedy v.
This South Carolina governor attacked Planned Parenthood. Will SCOTUS let patients fight back?

1 month ago | motherjones.com | Madison Pauly

Perhaps what was most significant in the debate at the US Supreme Court Wednesday morning, during oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic—a major case over whether a state can unilaterally cut off Planned Parenthood’s access to Medicaid funding—is what wasn’t said. Nobody in the courtroom argued that the doctors and nurses at Planned Parenthood weren’t medically qualified to care for patients.
Ken Paxton Finally Found Healthcare Providers to Charge With “Illegal” Abortion

1 month ago | motherjones.com | Madison Pauly

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In what appears to be the first arrests of healthcare providers for allegedly violating a post-Roe v. Wade state abortion ban, Maria Margarita Rojas, a midwife working in the region around Houston, and her employee, medical assistant Jose Manuel Cendan Ley, were taken into custody by Texas authorities on Monday.
Ken Paxton Finally Found Healthcare Providers to Charge With “Illegal” Abortion

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Madison Pauly

Texas Midwife, Assistant Are First Offenders Arrested for Allegedly Performing Abortions During State's Near-Total Ban‘In Texas, life is sacred. I will always do everything in my power to protect the unborn,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says. A Texas midwife and …
Supreme Court to decide whether states can ban anti-LGBTQ conversion therapy on kids.

2 months ago | motherjones.com | Madison Pauly

In what could foreshadow a major new onslaught against queer and trans children, the US Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear a case challenging a 2019 Colorado law forbidding licensed therapists from trying to turn LGBTQ kids straight and cisgender. The court’s decision to hear the case next fall is a major victory for practitioners of “conversion therapy,” a term used colloquially to describe attempts to shift a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
LGBTQ federal workers brace for a McCarthyist purge

2 months ago | lgbtqnation.com | Madison Pauly

This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. When Michael first started working in the Department of the Interior over a decade ago, he hid the fact that he was gay from his co-workers. “It can be an old boys’ club,” explains Michael, who still works in the department and requested to use a pseudonym to protect himself from retaliation.
LGBTQ federal workers brace for a McCarthyist purge

2 months ago | motherjones.com | Madison Pauly

When Michael first started working in the Department of the Interior over a decade ago, he hid the fact that he was gay from his coworkers. “It can be an old boy’s club,” explains Michael, who still works in the department and requested to use a pseudonym to protect himself from retaliation.
Trans youth and their families are suing Trump over canceled healthcare

Feb 5, 2025 | lgbtqnation.com | Madison Pauly

Seven young transgender patients, providers of LGBTQ healthcare, and the advocacy organization PFLAG sued President Donald Trump and his administration on Tuesday over a pair of anti-trans executive orders that attempted to end gender-affirming medications and surgery for transgender people under age 19. Trump can’t outlaw the treatments unilaterally, buthis January 28 order threatened to end federal funding to hospitals and medical schools that provide pediatric transgender healthcare.
Trans Youth and Their Families Are Suing Trump Over Orders Restricting Gender-Affirming Care

Feb 4, 2025 | them.us | Madison Pauly

Sign up for The Agenda — Them's news and politics newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Thursday. This article originally appeared at Mother Jones. Seven young transgender patients, providers of LGBTQ+ healthcare, and the advocacy organization PFLAG sued President Donald Trump and his administration on Tuesday over a pair of anti-trans executive orders that attempted to end gender-affirming medications and surgery for trans people under age 19.

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