What is Project 2025? See full PDF summary document - The 19th
WEBJul 16, 2024 · Heritage Foundation has been releasing a “Mandate for Leadership” ahead of incoming presidential administrations since the early 1980s. Project 2025 is the latest iteration aimed at a second Trump administration. The former president has tried to distance himself, writing on his social media site Truth Social, “I know nothing about ...
Child marriage is still prevalent in the U.S. Here’s why. - The 19th
WEBJul 5, 2023 · The 19th thanks our sponsors. Become one. Nearly 300,000 minors — the vast majority of them girls — were legally married in the United States between 2000 and 2018, according to a 2021 study. Child marriage is defined as any marriage where at least one of the parties is under the age of 18. It was legal in all 50 states until 2018.
What it’s like to be a pregnant trans man in America - The 19th
WEBDec 7, 2023 · A 32-year-old transgender man went to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain, only to discover several hours later — to his surprise, and to the surprise of medical staff — that he was pregnant. At that point, there was no fetal heartbeat. The patient was correctly identified as a man when admitted to the ER.
School dress codes challenged by students, activists - The 19th
WEBJan 12, 2022 · Students and activists, many of them in the South, are challenging rigid dress codes that often target girls, students of color and LGBTQ+ youth. One reason Riley O’Keefe prefers 10th grade to ninth is that she can dress more comfortably. That includes wearing tank tops, a style of clothing that was, until recently, off limits to girls at her ...
What abortion looks like in every state — right now - The 19th
WEBMay 25, 2022 · Abortion is illegal after 15 weeks in Arizona. State courts ruled doctors cannot be prosecuted under the pre-Roe ban, but the law has not been repealed. People seeking an abortion in Arizona must wait 24 hours before getting the procedure, and must undergo mandatory counseling and an ultrasound. D&X procedures are banned, and …
Forced sterilization is legal in 31 states, new report shows - The 19th
WEBFeb 4, 2022 · A new report shows that 31 states and the District of Columbia have laws allowing permanent forced sterilizations. Little discussed and largely unmonitored, the issue grabbed national attention last summer when the pop star Britney Spears testified that she was forced to use birth control by her father. While Spears was not subject to surgical …
The night White women raised millions for Harris. And broke Zoom.
WEBJul 26, 2024 · Watts told The 19th that she wanted White women to follow the lead of the Black women who quickly organized behind Kamala Harris’s candidacy; on July 21, when President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris, 44,000 of them gathered for the Win With Black Women Zoom call and raised $1.8 million. View this post on …
Equal Rights Amendment: What’s in it and what could happen next
WEBMar 1, 2021 · Recent efforts to add the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution are nearly 50 years in the making — longer if you count efforts by suffragists — and aim to explicitly protect people from discrimination on the basis of sex. On Thursday, those efforts weathered another setback. Senate Democrats failed to garner enough support to ...
The history of Donald Trump’s sexual assault allegations - The 19th
WEBOct 26, 2023 · Updated. May 30, 2024, 2:33 p.m. PT. A month before the 2016 presidential election, a leaked tape revealed Donald Trump bragging about grabbing women’s genitals, captured on a hot mic during a 2005 “Access Hollywood” taping. In the immediate aftermath, many condemned his words.
The history behind International Transgender Day of Visibility
WEBMar 31, 2021 · Transgender women were tired of being targets and done being dismissed by the press, which misgendered Hester. They marched through Hester’s Boston neighborhood, and Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), a day honoring transgender homicide victims, was born. The 19th thanks our sponsors. Become one.