Reports
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Manufacturing the doubt that fuels the network
How anti-LGBTQ+ medical disinformation is generated and used to influence policy.
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Timeline: Building a Pseudoscience Network
A brief history of key events in the development of the contemporary anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network.
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
The Pseudoscience Network in Action: A Case Study of Virginia
In 2023, the Virginia House of Delegates adopted Sage’s Law. The law was drafted in part by the Virginia Family Foundation’s Founding Freedoms Law Center to out transgender students to their parents and bar schools from engaging in socially affirming practices without parental consent. As the House of Delegates considered the bill in January 2023,…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Policing Sex, Sexuality and Gender
The Future of the Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Movement
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Merging Pseudoscience and Politics
The Right-Wing Strategy to Use Anti-Trans Disinformation to Split the LGBTQ+ Community & its Allies
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Foundations of the Contemporary Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network
Throughout the last five years, a major question has been: “How did the anti-transgender pseudoscience movement achieve success so quickly?” In responding to this question, it is important to first note that cisnormativity is nothing new. Anti-transgender sentiment has been vocalized louder and mobilized more efficiently in recent years, but this is due to decades…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Report: Mississippi’s Youth Legal System Must Invest in Its Children, Not Incarcerate Them
For years, Mississippi’s youth legal system has treated young Black people as criminals who need punishment instead of children who need support and care. Such a system has increasingly used incarceration as the default response to youth crime, even though youth arrests have declined significantly over the past 20 years. Incarcerating children not only does…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Report: Louisiana chooses incarceration over rehabilitation for children
On July 19, 2022, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his decision to transfer incarcerated young people to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola – an adult prison with a long history of human rights abuses. The decision was emblematic of a state that consistently sees young Black people as criminals to be…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Shelby County v. Holder continuously harms voting rights in Deep South
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder decision changed the landscape of voting rights in the Deep South as we know it. This landmark opinion dismantled the preclearance process of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which, for almost half a century, prevented certain states with a history of racially discriminatory voting practices from making changes…
