Host: Noah Parrish, Gender Justice Communications Director

Guests: Christina Sambor, Gender Justice North Dakota State Director and Marc Hearron, Center for Reproductive Rights Senior Counsel

Victory in North Dakota!

On September 12, 2024, a North Dakota state court ruled that the state’s total abortion ban is unconstitutional.

“All North Dakota citizens, including women, have the right to make fundamental, appropriate, and informed medical decisions in consultation with a physician and to receive their chosen medical care among comparable alternatives. Such a choice is a fundamental one, central to personal autonomy and self-determination. Those choices belong to the individual, not the government. That is the essence of what liberty and happiness require.” — South Central Judicial District Court Judge Bruce Romanick, in his order

We talk with two of the attorneys who have been involved with the case filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and Gender Justice.

Links to resources mentioned in the show:

• Statement on the ruling from the Center for Reproductive Rights and Gender Justice

• North Dakota judge vacates state abortion ban, ruling it unconstitutional, by Mary Steurer and Jeff Beach, North Dakota Monitor

• Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother's Death Was Preventable, by Kavitha Surana, ProPublica
  Read the full opinion (pdf)

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Host: Noah Parrish, Gender Justice Communications Director

Guests: Christy Hall, Gender Justice Senior Staff Attorney, and Dave Edwards, Founder of Gender Inclusive Schools

In this back-to-school episode, Christy Hall reviews state and federal laws protecting transgender and gender expansive students in a conversation with Dave Edwards, an educator and former client of Gender Justice who has just published a new book called Gender Inclusive Schools: How to Affirm and Support Gender-Expansive Students—an invaluable resource for educators, parents, and anybody who works with kids.

For an extensive discussion of the state and federal laws protecting trans students, be sure to listen to our interview with Christy Hall on the August 26, 2023, episode of The Gender Justice Brief: Back to School: Know Your Rights.

Links to resources mentioned in the show:

• Gender Inclusive Schools (organization) and Gender Inclusive Schools (book)

• Gender Justice’s work with the Edwards family to secure safe schools for trans students

• The Minnesota Department of Education’s 2017 Toolkit for Ensuring Safe and Supportive Schools for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students

• Know Your Rights: Resources and Legal Advocacy Tools for Transgender Students

Transforming Families Minnesota, an inclusive safe-space for families with transgender and questioning youth.

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SCOTUS Chat: Court Reform Edition

Host: Erin Maye Quade, Gender Justice Special Projects Advisor

Guests: Christy Hall, Gender Justice Senior Staff Attorney, and Hayley Durudogan, Alliance for Justice Durot Fellow

Court reforms proposed by the Biden-Harris administration are popular across the political spectrum.

In this episode of The Gender Justice Brief, Christy Hall and Erin Maye Quade talk with Hayley Durudogan, Alliance for Justice Durot Fellow, about the background of these specific measures, what they would entail, and how reforming the judiciary could strengthen democracy.

Gender Justice is one of over 130 members of Alliance for Justice, a judicial advocacy organization that works toward a fair and independent judicial system. Together we’re building power, transforming courts, and creating a multi-racial democracy that secures justice for all.

Additional links

Alliance for Justice 2023-2024 Supreme Court Term Review

Full Text of the No Kings Act

Fact Sheet on President Biden’s Supreme Court Reform Proposals
Reforming the Supreme Court Should Be Commonplace, by Keith Thirion, interim co-president of Alliance for Justice, published in Ms. Magazine, August 12, 2024

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