Casey Quinlan is the LGBTQ reporter at The American Independent. They previously worked for ThinkProgress as a gender and sexuality policy reporter. Casey has freelanced for publications such as Rewire News, New Republic, Teen Vogue, In These Times, Glamour, Bustle, Vox, SCOTUSblog, and Supermajority News.
Trans youth targeted by discriminatory state laws could be helped by a new rule proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services, experts say.
By Casey Quinlan - January 06, 2022
Experts say far-right activists are setting their sights on gender-affirming care providers.
By Casey Quinlan - December 16, 2021
Barriers to obtaining a clear picture of violence against trans and gender-nonconforming people remain, experts say.
By Casey Quinlan - December 14, 2021
Resources for educators who want to help LGBTQ youth feel safe in schools have been removed from the Florida Department of Education’s website.
By Casey Quinlan - December 07, 2021
State laws targeting transgender kids have left school districts across the country in a challenging legal situation, experts say.
By Casey Quinlan - December 02, 2021
Anti-LGBTQ providers are offering a disproven, harmful ‘therapy’ in Guatemala and Costa Rica as well as in the United States, according to a new investigation.
By Casey Quinlan - November 24, 2021
A Texas health program that offered mental health care and hormone treatments to trans kids has dissolved following attacks from anti-trans protesters who falsely claimed the program was ‘child abuse.’
By Casey Quinlan - November 22, 2021
Software produced by the company Gaggle alone monitors over 5.2 million students in 1,500 districts across the nation.
By Casey Quinlan - November 19, 2021
Anti-LGBTQ groups are claiming that schools are violating the rights of teachers and parents.
By Casey Quinlan - November 18, 2021
Libraries are fighting nonstop efforts to remove LGBTQ books from shelves.
By Casey Quinlan - November 12, 2021
The Alliance Defending Freedom has expanded its push for anti-LGBTQ and anti-woman policies internationally.
By Casey Quinlan - November 10, 2021
Several LGBTQ candidates of color and transgender and nonbinary candidates made history on Tuesday.
By Casey Quinlan - November 05, 2021
Lambda Legal sees victory in its fight for widowed LGBTQ people to receive Social Security survivors benefits they’re entitled to.
By Casey Quinlan - November 02, 2021
Policymakers should not be ‘enforcing very narrowly defined conceptions of what people’s bodies should or should not look like,’ one expert said.
By Casey Quinlan - October 28, 2021
Their latest mission is to pull books with LGBTQ themes from school libraries.
By Casey Quinlan - October 22, 2021
Cristina Nichole Iglesias is seeking gender-affirming surgery after waiting for years.
By Casey Quinlan - October 21, 2021
Texas Democrats say the bill is cruel to transgender students and would lead to bullying.
By Casey Quinlan - October 15, 2021
The Biden administration wants the VA to provide gender-affirming surgery it says would ‘save lives.’ Republicans want to stop it.
By Casey Quinlan - October 14, 2021
Anthony Sabatini is running for Congress as ‘the most conservative member of Florida’s state legislature.’
By Casey Quinlan - October 12, 2021
The Biden administration announced similar changes to U.S. passports in June. Now, advocates are pushing officials to go further and extend the policy to all forms requiring gender identification.
By Casey Quinlan - October 07, 2021
The Republican nominee for governor of Virginia has said Democrats are ‘waging a cultural war’ on LGBTQ rights ‘and the victims are our children.’
By Casey Quinlan - October 04, 2021
Three trans women say a Pennsylvania law has caused them to lose opportunities, put them in danger, and prevented them from living fully as themselves.
By Casey Quinlan - September 28, 2021
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) claimed research on gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors ‘harms kids,’ but studies have shown otherwise.
By Casey Quinlan - September 24, 2021
President Joe Biden is promoting the Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people in housing, employment, health care, jury service, and more
By Casey Quinlan - September 20, 2021
Utah state Rep. Merrill Nelson (R) wants birth certificates to retain the gender markers originally assigned.
By Casey Quinlan - September 17, 2021
Several states have passed laws targeting LGBTQ kids this year, creating what experts say are hostile school environments.
By Casey Quinlan - September 16, 2021
‘Getting misgendered, being housed in the wrong place, being turned away because they’re wearing the wrong clothes … those sorts of things are particular challenges for this group.’
By Casey Quinlan - September 10, 2021
A federal judge found that a religious school violated federal law when it fired a gay man after he announced his engagement on social media.
By Casey Quinlan - September 07, 2021
The number of anti-trans hate crimes reported in 2020 in the United States was much higher than in the previous year.
By Casey Quinlan - September 01, 2021
At least one trans student in Tennessee was harassed after state passed bathroom bill.
By Casey Quinlan - August 30, 2021