Shortfalls point to ongoing barriers—including stigma, limited clinic accessibility, and hurdles concerning women.

Mark Twain famously said, “History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” I’ve been thinking about the political historian ...

Some transgender people alter their physical characteristics via social, hormonal, and/or surgical changes to embody the ...

Brazil is on a mission to end its status as Latin America’s largest supplier of sex slaves. In recent months the government has joined international sting operations, passed a new law and launched a ...

Up to 90% of women sentenced to prisons in the US are survivors of sexual and physical violence, either in childhood, adulthood or both.

A transgendered English professor spends a year teaching in her old identity as a man. This fall, Justine Nicholas reveals her new gender identity to students and teachers and receives some surprising ...

Synthetic opioids hijack the mu-opioid receptor with such potency that withdrawal becomes intolerable: bone pain, vomiting, ...

In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...

It is no accident that Black women are being disproportionately affected by Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce. In the past 120 days, approximately 300,000 Black women have been forced out of the ...

The call for change is clear: it’s time to move beyond mere acknowledgment of these issues and focus on practical, sustainable solutions. In the last decade, there’s been a growing awareness of the ...

During COVID, I lost a loved one who was only 25 years old and had just given birth to her only child, at a time when hospital visitation was restricted to a single person for only a few hours a day.