Madison Pauly

Investigative Reporter at Mother Jones

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

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This South Carolina governor attacked Planned Parenthood. Will SCOTUS let patients fight back?

3 weeks 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.

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

2 months ago | 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

2 months ago | 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.
Trump tells DOJ to prosecute teachers who “unlawfully” support trans or nonbinary students

2 months ago | motherjones.com | Sarah Szilagy |Madison Pauly

During his campaign, President Donald Trump frequently repeated the inflammatory and outrageous lie that, without parents’ knowledge, schools are sending children for gender-affirming surgeries. During a campaign stop filmed by Fox News at a Bronx, New York, barbershop, Trump answered a voter’s question about failing school systems by saying, “No transgender, no operations—you know, they take your kid—there are some places, your boy leaves for school, comes back a girl. Okay?
RFK Jr. signals he’ll give the anti-abortion movement exactly what they want

2 months ago | motherjones.com | Madison Pauly

Last Friday, my colleague Julianne McShane and I broke the news of a pair of letters sent by 30 prominent anti-abortion movement leaders to the heads of the Departments of Health and Human Services and Justice, asking them to use the powers of their agencies to attack abortion pills. During his contentious confirmation hearing as President Donald Trump’s nominee for HHS secretary today, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signaled that he’d do exactly that.