Civil rights — who gets to have them and who doesn’t — have been a central contest of American politics from the start. But at no time in recent history have so many Americans had their rights on the line in one election.
In the wake of Republican Supreme Court justices overturning Roe vs. Wade in 2022, tens of millions of American women in red states lost their reproductive rights. Tens of millions more stand to lose them if Republicans win Congress and Donald Trump seizes the presidency, enabling them to impose national restrictions or an outright abortion ban.
At the same time, transgender Americans have been under persistent assault. According to a 2022 Pew Research Center survey, about 2% of adults under age 30 say they are trans men or trans women (3% say they are nonbinary). The percentage of the population that is transgender declines with age. Among those 50 or older, only 0.3% say they are transgender or nonbinary.
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