Orion Rummler

2 days ago | 19thnews.org | Nadra Nittle |Orion Rummler

Published In one children’s book, a family dog gets lost at a Pride parade. In another on intersectional feminism, a young girl talks about using a wheelchair, while her friend wears a hijab in ballet class. A child who uses multiple pronouns, like she/her and they/them, talks about their gender expression in a different story. These books, among others written and illustrated for children, are at the center of an upcoming Supreme Court case.

2 days ago | yahoo.com | Nadra Nittle |Orion Rummler

In one children’s book, a family dog gets lost at a Pride parade. In another on intersectional feminism, a young girl talks about using a wheelchair, while her friend wears a hijab in ballet class. A child who uses multiple pronouns, like she/her and they/them, talks about their gender expression in a different story. These books, among others written and illustrated for children, are at the center of an upcoming Supreme Court case.

6 days ago | them.us | Orion Rummler

This post originally appeared on The 19th. WASHINGTON, D.C. — It took Peter Staley two weeks to build 200 full-sized coffins. The longtime AIDS activist, with a group of volunteers, fashioned them out of black styrofoam and strapped them together with tape and velcro. On Thursday morning, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department headquarters to protest funding cuts to the global program known as PEPFAR, or the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

6 days ago | them.us | Orion Rummler

This post originally appeared on The 19th. Health care costs for transgender Americans could increase starting in 2026, if a recently proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is finalized. The agency wants to stop insurance sold on the individual and small-group marketplace from including gender-affirming care — a change that would affect coverage for trans people with marketplace plans.

1 week ago | 19thnews.org | Orion Rummler

Published WASHINGTON, D.C. — It took Peter Staley two weeks to build 200 full-sized coffins. The longtime AIDS activist, with a group of volunteers,fashioned them out of black styrofoam and strapped them together with tape and velcro. On Thursday morning, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department headquarters to protest funding cuts to the global program known as PEPFAR, or the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.