Penny Gautreaux has spent her career helping people in crisis. But facing her own took a village. A licensed social worker and therapist, Gautreaux struggled with an eating disorder for 24 years. As a transgender woman, dysphoria tied to her gender made it worse.
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The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban. This story was originally reported by She
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Mainstream legacy media in the U.K. has found a new target: young disabled women. Last week, Telegraph editor Poppy Coburn published “How having a disability became cool,” arguing so-called “sickfluen
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