The Gender Justice Brief

Host: Noah Parrish, Gender Justice Communications Director

Guests: 

Sara Jane Baldwin, Gender Justice Senior Staff Attorney

Paula Schaefer, Advocate for Minnesota Juvenile Justice Reform

Meagan McIntyre, Gender Justice 2024 legal intern

In this conversation on The Gender Justice Brief, we shine a light on an issue that doesn’t get nearly enough attention: the unequal protection of girls in Minnesota’s juvenile justice system.

This ...

Guests:

• Erin Maye Quade, Gender Justice Special Projects Advisor

• Jess Braverman, Gender Justice Legal Director

• Brittany Stewart, Gender Justice Senior Staff Attorney

On December 4, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case out of Tennessee called U.S. v. Skrmetti that could determine the future of gender-affirming care in the United States. 

In the monumental case, families, doctors, and the United St...

Host: Noah Parrish, Gender Justice Communications Director

Guest: Ash Tifa, Community Organizer and Advocate

In the wake of the 2024 election results, many people in the trans community and wondering if now is the time to update names and gender markers on key documents such as passports and driver’s licenses. 

As a new, hostile presidential administration comes in January, we spoke with Ash Tifa, a legal professional with a wealth...

With the Trump administration’s harmful policies targeting our fundamental freedoms, our state-based work at Gender Justice has never been more urgent. 

Post-election, our legal and policy experts discuss the immediate threats we face, what the results mean for the issues Gender Justice covers, and how we’re preparing to defend our rights in this hostile environment.

Speakers:

Jess Braverman, Legal Director

Erin Maye Quade, Special...

Host: Noah Parrish, Gender Justice Communications Director

Guests: Jay Belsito, Gender Justice Organizer, and B. Wilson, BIPOC Educators’ Collective co-founder

We all have a role to play in defending trans lives, and today’s conversation aims to engage allies and those who want to be stronger advocates. We’ll explore ways to push back against harmful rhetoric, foster understanding, and take action to support the trans community.

At...

Host: Noah Parrish, Gender Justice Communications Director

Guest: Nicki Hangsleben, QUEERSPACE Collective 

“Your program is saving my kid’s life.” 

Through mentorship, training and advocacy, Minnesota’s QUEERSPACE Collective creates a space where LGBTQ+ youth can show up as their authentic selves.

We recorded this episode a little over a week before the 2024 election, with major stakes for LGBTQ+ rights in the balance. We thought i...

Host: Noah Parrish, Gender Justice Communications Director

Guests: Erin Maye Quade, Gender Justice Special Projects Advisor, and Miraya Gran, Minnesota Building Families Coalition infertility advocate

At Gender Justice, we advocate for gender equity under the law. We also subscribe to the philosophy of reproductive justice, a concept developed by Black women advocates in the 1990s defined as “the human right to maintain personal bo...

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 infor...

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 ...

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 J...

Justice for Reyzl: Standing up to LGBTQ Workplace Discrimination

Host: Noah Parrish, Gender Justice Communications Director

Guest: Brittany Stewart, Gender Justice Senior Staff Attorney

In August 2024, Gender Justice and co-counsel Wanta Thome PLC filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Academy of Holy Angels, a Catholic high school in Richfield, Minnesota, and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis after they effectively t...

SCOTUS Chat: Recorded live with Jess Braverman, Gender Justice Legal Director and Erin Maye Quade, Gender Justice Special Projects Advisor

On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Idaho v. United States and Moyle et al., or the “EMTALA” (Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act) case, which centers on whether state abortion bans supersede the federal EMTALA law mandating that hospital emergency departments r...

Host: Noah Parrish, Gender Justice Communications Director

Guests: Ash Tifa, Rainbow Health Legal Services Program Coordinator, and Annie Van Avery, Family Tree Clinic Executive Director

“No health plan that covers physical or mental health services may be offered, sold, issued, or renewed in this state that excludes coverage for medically necessary gender-affirming care.” 

This is the simple language underlying one of the major ac...

Host: Noah Parrish, Gender Justice Communications Director

Guest: Jess Braverman, Gender Justice Legal Director

On June 13, 2024, the Supreme Court issued a decision in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, its first abortion case since the Dobbs ruling reversing Roe v. Wade. 

In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court maintained the current FDA regulations on mifepristone, one of the two pills ...

Host: Noah Parrish, Gender Justice Communications Director
Guests: Jess Braverman, Gender Justice Legal Director and Paige Suelzle, Litigation Counsel at The Lawyering Project

In this episode of The Gender Justice Brief we talk with The Lawyering Project’s Paige Suelzle about a recent victory for abortion funds—and for the First Amendment—in a case that is likely to have broad regional and national repercussions.

When the Dobbs ...

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the passage of the Women’s Economic Security Act (WESA), which guarantees nursing rights for Minnesota workers, we are re-releasing our 2023 episode on Pregnancy and Pumping Rights. 

In 2014, Gender Justice helped catapult the life-changing package of legislation known as the Women's Economic Security Act over the finishing line. In the decade since, the policies have been further strengthene...

Host: Erin Maye Quade, Gender Justice Special Projects Advisor

Guests: Jess Braverman, Gender Justice Legal Director and Rupali Sharma, Deputy Executive Director for Legal Programs at the Lawyering Project

“This case is about our humanity: do we matter?” — Rupali Sharma 

Gender Justice legal and policy experts are joined by the Lawyering Project’s Rupali Sharma to discuss the oral arguments in the case Idaho v. United States and Mo...

Host: Erin Maye Quade, Gender Justice Special Projects Advisor

Guests: Jess Braverman, Gender Justice Legal Director and Amanda Allen, Deputy Executive Director for Legal Programs at The Lawyering Project

Gender Justice legal and policy experts and the Lawyering Project’s Deputy Executive Director for Legal Programs Amanda Allen discuss the oral arguments in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), t...

This episode of The Gender Justice Brief is a recording of the panel of advocates and researchers featured in the film Preconceived, moderated by Gender Justice Executive Director Megan Peterson at its premiere at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas on March 9, 2024. 

Preconceived tells the stories of Maleeha and Maria, just two of the thousands of people who have been deceived by coercive anti-abortion propaganda mill...