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1 month ago | 
notus.org | Oriana González |Jose Pagliery |Oriana Gonzalez
The Trump administration is moving with uncharacteristic timidity on key abortion pill cases, even as the Department of Justice wastes no time weighing in on other legal battles.
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1 month ago | 
notus.org | Oriana González |Torrence Banks |Oriana Gonzalez
President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion and transgender people are upending organizing efforts for WorldPride Washington, D.C. 2025, which the capital is set to host in June. Planning for the weeks-long slate of international events and cultural programming highlighting the LGBTQ+ community has been underway for several years, and more than 3 million people are expected to travel to Washington for the festivities.
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1 month ago | 
notus.org | Riley Rogerson |Oriana González
Days before Election Day last year, Sen. Cory Booker went to then-Majority Leader Chuck Schumer with a problem. “We’re way behind,” Booker told Schumer. Republicans were dominating podcasts and social media. While the likes of Joe Rogan were supercharging Republican rhetoric, Booker showed Schumer that online engagement for Senate Democrats was also comparatively “anemic.”
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2 months ago | 
notus.org | Jasmine Wright |Oriana González
President Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “father of IVF,” on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at expanding access to in vitro fertilization. The order specifically “directs” recommendations to protect IVF access that the White House said would “aggressively” reduce costs for patients seeking the treatment, according to a fact sheet first obtained by NOTUS.
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2 months ago | 
notus.org | Oriana González |Jasmine Wright |Oriana Gonzalez
The White House is now determining how best to fulfill President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to ensure in vitro fertilization treatments would be paid for, after Trump repeatedly branded himself the “father of IVF” over the last year, NOTUS has learned. There are signs that the White House is moving to address the issue sooner rather than later, after IVF has gone virtually unmentioned publicly in Trump’s first weeks.
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2 months ago | 
notus.org | Margaret Manto |Oriana González
A federal court in Maryland issued a temporary restraining order on Thursday suspending Donald Trump’s executive order banning federal funds from going to hospitals that provide gender-affirming care for transgender patients under 19 — and it appears to actually be working to undo the initial impact of the order.
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2 months ago | 
notus.org | Oriana González |Margaret Manto |Oriana Gonzalez
President Donald Trump’s all-out effort to block federal funding for “transgender lunacy” has the potential to upend the clinical research industry, with one specific clause in one specific executive order already causing hospitals across the country to scramble their plans.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
them.us | Oriana González
Sign up for The Agenda — Them's news and politics newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Thursday. This story was originally published in NOTUS, a nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom from The Allbritton Journalism Institute. President Donald Trump’s recent executive order declaring that the U.S. recognizes “only two sexes, male and female,” will not impact passports issued before the start of his term to transgender and nonbinary people that have their preferred gender or “X” marker.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
them.us | Oriana González
Sign up for The Agenda — Them's news and politics newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Thursday. This story was originally published in NOTUS, a nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom from The Allbritton Journalism Institute. When Ben Carson, Donald Trump’s first housing and urban development secretary, proposed a rule in 2019 allowing single-sex homeless shelters to turn away transgender people, congressional Democrats were furious.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
notus.org | Oriana González |Alex Roarty |Oriana Gonzalez
Republicans’ political breakthrough on attacks on transgender rights has profound implications for the coming off-year elections and a wave of legislative fights both parties expect will accelerate in 2025. After a string of elections in which the attacks appeared politically ineffective, they suddenly came through for Republicans in 2024, resonating with at least some voters and putting Democrats on the defensive to such a degree that they hardly even fought back.
