Written by Zane McNeill, Civil Rights & Health Equity Legal Fellow at L4GG — reproductive justice and transgender liberation are not separate fights: they share the same core principle of bodily autonomy and face the same coordinated political attacks, making solidarity between movements not just important but essential.
Written by Amy Powell, Litigation Director at L4GG — a firsthand account from inside a Texas detention center holding up to 5,000 people, almost none with legal representation, and the urgent infrastructure L4GG is building through its Detention Bridge Project to change that.
Written by Zane McNeill, Civil Rights & Health Equity Legal Fellow at L4GG — the prosecution of Maria Margarita Rojas, a Houston-area Latina midwife who served uninsured, Spanish-speaking patients, is the first criminal case under Texas's abortion ban and echoes a long history of racialized attacks on midwives of color.
Written by Allison Chapman, Gender Justice & Health Equity Fellow and Khadijah Silver, Director of Gender Justice & Health Equity — New research confirms what advocates have long known: anti-trans policies cause real harm to transgender people, their children, and their families, with studies showing dramatically higher rates of anxiety, fear, and suicide risk among those affected.
Written by Jillian Blanchard, SVP of Climate Change and Environmental Justice at L4GG — after years of waiting, hundreds of frontline communities finally secured federal environmental justice grants through the Inflation Reduction Act, only to have the EPA unlawfully pull the funding, leaving critical health and climate projects in limbo.
Written by Zane McNeill, Civil Rights & Health Equity Legal Fellow at L4GG — reproductive justice and transgender liberation are not separate fights: they share the same core principle of bodily autonomy and face the same coordinated political attacks, making solidarity between movements not just important but essential.
Written by Zane McNeill, Civil Rights & Health Equity Legal Fellow at L4GG — the prosecution of Maria Margarita Rojas, a Houston-area Latina midwife who served uninsured, Spanish-speaking patients, is the first criminal case under Texas's abortion ban and echoes a long history of racialized attacks on midwives of color.
Written by Zane McNeill, Civil Rights & Health Equity Legal Fellow at L4GG — true bodily autonomy is impossible alongside state violence: with 73,000 people detained in ICE facilities, documented medical neglect, and entire communities afraid to seek healthcare, immigration enforcement is itself a public health crisis.
Written by Estuardo Cifuentes, Project Corazón Program Manager at L4GG — as videos of hostile ICE conduct in Minnesota surface and federal agents operate with growing impunity, L4GG is launching the Detention Bridge Project to provide legal representation to detained immigrants and restore accountability where power has gone unchecked.
Written by Allison Chapman, Civil Rights & Health Equity Project Fellow at L4GG — after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to reinstate its passport policy stripping accurate gender markers from transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans, hundreds of thousands face restricted freedom of movement, leaving many wondering whether their fundamental human rights still apply.
Written by Zane McNeill, Civil Rights & Health Equity Legal Fellow at L4GG — the Trump administration's attacks on reproductive and LGBTQ rights are not isolated policy choices but part of a broader authoritarian playbook, mirroring the tactics used in Hungary and Poland to control bodies, erode civil rights, and consolidate power. The legal profession must resist.
Written by Zane McNeill, Civil Rights & Health Equity Legal Fellow at L4GG — approved by the FDA 25 years ago and used in nearly two-thirds of U.S. abortions, mifepristone is now under coordinated attack from anti-abortion states and the Trump administration, which is using agency review as a potential backdoor to restrict or ban the medication nationwide.
Written by Estuardo Cifuentes, Project Corazón Program Manager at L4GG — as a survivor of the original "Remain in Mexico" program, Cifuentes speaks from firsthand experience: the Migrant Protection Protocols don't protect migrants, they condemn them to violence, denial of due process, and impossible conditions at the border.
