Help Us Fight Back Against Efforts to Roll Back Gender Justice

Extremist judges will not stop endangering the lives of pregnant people or people who may become pregnant—overturning Roe v. Wade, attacking medication abortion, threatening the future of IVF, and this week at SCOTUS, emergency abortion care.

Our lawyers are waging strategic fights that make clear what is at stake for people who can become pregnant and seek to bolster our fundamental rights to control our lives, futures, and destinies.

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NAIA prohíbe a los atletas transgénero participar en deportes femeninos

  • El Tiempo Latino
Shiwali Patel, asesora principal del Centro Nacional de Derecho de la Mujer, criticó la postura de la NAIA, destacando sus efectos adversos para las personas transgénero, no binarias e intersexuales y su incapacidad para garantizar una...

NAIA all but bans transgender athletes from women’s sports. NCAA vows to ensure ‘fair competition’

  • Associated Press
Shiwali Patel, senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center, said her organization was outraged by the NAIA policy. “This is unacceptable and blatant discrimination that not only harms trans, nonbinary and intersex individuals, but...

The federal government will now offer its employees generous fertility benefits

  • The 19th
But what happened with abortion may not be a good predictor of what will happen with IVF, said Dorianne Mason, director of health equity at the National Women’s Law Center. Following the Alabama judge’s ruling,...

Virginia sex assault case raises questions about school responsibility

  • Washington Post
Elizabeth Tang, senior counsel for education and workplace justice at the National Women’s Law Center, said in an interview that she has fielded hundreds of complaints about students experiencing sexual harassment, assault and other sex...

This Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, Black Female Workers Say Enough is Enough!

  • The Root
On average, Black women working full-time make just 67 cents for every dollar paid to white non-Hispanic men, according to the National Women’s Law Center. The implications of this pay gap are enormous, says Gaylynn Burroughs,...

Transgender Student Athletes ‘Just Want to Play.’ Will Federal Law Assure They Can?

  • Education Week
“I would argue that Title IX already prohibits this type of discrimination,” said Shiwali Patel, a lawyer with the National Women’s Law Center. If the department were to add specific language protecting transgender students’ right...