By Karleigh Webb — 2021
Myth making, policy making and never the twain should meet.
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CLEAR ALL
Hand-wringing about the sanctity of women’s sports reflects an unwillingness to understand what it truly means to be transgender.
The constant scrutiny into the runner’s medical history reveals what happens to women who don’t conform to stereotypes.
What’s behind this animus toward transgender people in the Christian community? As I see it, it’s not the Bible.
For many people of faith, the motivation to fight against transgender discrimination in public policy comes from their religious identities, not despite them.
LGBTQ legal strategy has long focused on equal protection. But if identity itself can be political speech, the First Amendment could be our future.
When a friend first presented to me the arguments for gay marriage, in 1994, I thought the whole idea was ridiculous. In the face of staggering prejudice against us, marriage felt so remote as to be irrelevant.
Feminism, when you look at it as Gloria Steinem does, as the recognition of the full humanity and full equality of both men and women, is peace work
The fact that we have an International Women’s Day means we are still in trouble. There is no International Men’s Day. Only less powerful people or forgotten historical events need “A Day” to be part of the present. Yet it’s an important step because any notice is better than no notice.
Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.
With her play and her talk, did the soccer star inspire us to redefine the meaning of sports? She tried.