Sara Youngblood Gregory

The right-wing crusade against transgender people has led to an assault on this lifesaving treatment. (Irresponsible media narratives haven’t helped either.) Here, Cosmopolitan talks to five young trans people around the country about how, in reality, the health care changed their whole world.

When the organization that oversees competitive climbing in the U.S. rolled out a de facto ban on trans women and girls, these athletes weren’t going to accept it without a fight. In the end, their organizing created a roadmap to respond to attacks and re-center the dignity of trans people.

These bots need to learn from something, and the people training them? Cis white dudes, mostly.

Forget the gay best friend, the long-suffering butch, or all those tragic queer endings. Misery lesbians don’t care about representation, and they don’t need your permission to be vicious, sulky, and decadently dissatisfied.

Fans of mainstream sci-fi like The Last of Us believe that any hint of femininity means you’re not equipped for End Times (by zombies or by climate change). That’s just ridiculous.

The Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, and Nevada Senate races each play a crucial role in determining future abortion access legislation—and at this point, the elections could go either way. Here’s what you need to know.

There’s a lot of uncertainty about how your reproductive health data could be used against you, so we tapped a few experts to advise.