Advocates for Youth mourns the death of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary high school student in Oklahoma who died after being violently attacked and beaten by fellow students in the school’s bathroom.

Advocates for Youth condemns the decision of the Alabama Supreme Court granting personhood to embryos. The careless decision to grant embryos the legal status of human beings will have potentially vast ramifications and will further threaten the health of people in Alabama and beyond. 

A new report released today from national nonprofit  Advocates for Youth and reproductive and sexual health virtual clinic Hey Jane indicates that the majority of young people around the country face challenges when accessing reproductive health care on campus, often turning to telehealth and off-campus options due to concerns including privacy, comfort, stigma and reliability. 

While today is an important milestone in the fight for comprehensive Title IX protections, the Department of Education must also finalize its guidance safeguarding transgender students’ access to athletics. Equal access to sports is central to Title IX’s purpose: protecting all students from gender discrimination.

Advocates condemns the Ohio legislature for the passage of a series of anti-transgender bills, over the override of Gov. DeWine.  We are deeply saddened by the trauma and discrimination Ohio is working to inflict on gender expansive young people and their families.

The brief argues that Idaho’s recently passed Abortion Travel Ban, §18-623, exacerbates existing barriers young people in the state face when attempting to seek abortion care and actively harms their health, safety, and well-being in a myriad of ways.