Press Statements

This harmful and discriminatory federal bill undeniably perpetuates sex-based discrimination in education and violates Title IX by creating a blanket ban to prevent transgender women and girls from pl…

Advocates for Youth applauds the New York Assembly and New York State Senate for passing legislation that would help ensure students on college campuses have access to abortion. The bill…

Advocates for Youth strongly condemns the expansion of Florida’s “don’t say gay or trans” bill to include grades 4-12.  Though the bill permits teachers in higher grades to include sexual…

Young people have the right to lead safe and healthy lives. But gun violence and white supremacy have created an unsafe world for too many.

This week, Missouri became the first state to restrict gender affirming care for all transgender people – youth and adults. Advocates for Youth absolutely condemns the new rule and demands…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has overturned Judge Kascmaryk’s biased and unsound decision to suspend mifepristone’s approval while an appeal is heard, but has insisted that…

Advocates for Youth is appalled by Idaho’s new law, H.B. 242, making it illegal for anyone to help a young person under 18 obtain abortion pills or to “recruit, harbor,…

Advocates for Youth is outraged by Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s decision to stay the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug Mifepristone. Mifepristone has been available by prescription for 20 years and…

Advocates for Youth strongly condemns U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s decision in Braidwood Management v. Becerra. This decision struck down a provision of the Affordable Care Act that require…