Data from the CDC showed teenage girls’ hospitalizations for suspected suicide attempts shot up last year. It’s only one piece of a mental health crisis affecting young people.
Jackson was named by President Joe Biden to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a position regarded as a stepping stone to some of the highest legal positions in the government.
Even in cities known for providing transgender services, trans people overwhelmingly report myriad barriers in getting mental health services, experts say.
The former president says government can help relieve the gendered pressures of the pandemic.
Frazier was honored with a special citation for her video, which “spurred protests against police brutality around the world.”
In a country that typically separates incarcerated people from their newborns, the eight states with prison nurseries seemed groundbreaking. Minnesota introduced an entirely new solution.
After a bill passed Thursday, trans and nonbinary New Yorkers will likely be able to update their IDs with "X" gender markers.
They are lawmakers, community organizers and relatives of victims. And they’re a microcosm of the gun violence prevention efforts playing out in statehouses across the nation — amid congressional gridlock and daily shootings.
Black women face a disproportionate amount of mental health concerns, which have been exacerbated by the pandemic, experts say. Online resources are helping to combat that.
Advocates thought this might be the time, in light of the women’s recession, that a 24-year effort to pass additional protections for women in the workforce would pass. It failed to gain support from Republicans.