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Orion Rummler

LGBTQ+ Reporter (He/Him)

I’m Orion Rummler, LGBTQ+ reporter for The 19th based in Washington, D.C. My reporting ranges from health policy explainers and court deep dives to statehouse breaking news and features on LGBTQ+ daily life. My priority is to inform our readers about how U.S. politics are shaping the future for LGBTQ+ Americans, and how LGBTQ+ people are shaping the future for all of us.

My reporting has won an Excellence in Journalism Award from the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists and has been twice nominated for GLAAD’s Outstanding Online Journalism Award. For our newsroom’s four-part series that won a national Edward R. Murrow Award, I wrote a story on what it’s like to be a pregnant transgender man in America.

My work has appeared in CBS News, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” PBS NewsHour, the Huffington Post, USA Today, and Teen Vogue, among other outlets. I have reported from the White House, the State Department, the Education Department, outside the Supreme Court, inside Capitol Hill, and at home with my cats.

My work is free to consume and free to republish because of contributions from readers like you. A donation of $19 goes a long way toward sustaining our nonprofit newsroom.

Latest from Orion Rummler

How conservative legal arguments paved the way for transgender rights

Even as Republican-controlled statehouses endanger trans rights, a different line of conservative thinking is bolstering them in the courts.

Orion Rummler · July 6, 2021
White House to review interagency protections for transgender Americans

The Biden administration wants to address employment discrimination, homelessness and other issues that have a disproportionate effect on transgender people.

Orion Rummler · June 30, 2021
U.S. to add ‘X’ gender marker on passports

Transgender and intersex Americans will have the power to identify their own gender on travel documents without providing medical documentation by the end of this year, an administration official said.

Kate Sosin, Orion Rummler · June 30, 2021
Supreme Court won't rule on transgender bathroom access in schools

The justices declined to hear a Virginia school board's appeal, agreeing with a lower court that schools cannot bar transgender students from using bathrooms that match their gender identity.

Orion Rummler · June 28, 2021
The 19th Explains: What is the Equal Rights Amendment and will it become part of the Constitution?

Senate Democrats failed to garner enough support to consider a bill to recognize the Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution.

Barbara Rodriguez, Orion Rummler · March 1, 2021