About a third of state lawmakers are women, garnering 49 out of 140 seats. And of those female legislators, about two dozen have kids under 18, ranging from newborns to teens.

State Rep. Bennie Cook’s legislation, HB 624, which removes the expiration date from the “Saving Girls Sports” bill, has received initial approval in the Emerging Issues Committee and is now set to ...

Research suggests up to 34% of voting-age women don't have documents proving citizenship with their current legal name.

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act could prevent many married women from being able to register to vote.

The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the ...

The Republican takeover of Washington was advertised as a solution to quell the turmoil in college sports by lassoing the ...

Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday gave final approval to legislation that would write definitions of male and female into state law that exclude transgender people from being recognized under their ...

Transgender college students in Utah will be prohibited from living in dorms consistent with their gender identity under a bill that has cleared a final legislative hurdle ...

Georgia state Senate passes bill banning transgender girls from playing on girls' sports teams, with House speaker proposing ...

The fourth in a series of columns by Matthew T. Hall explores how a candidate considered qualified, and even well-qualified ...

Never let them tell you that nothing ever changes in politics. In 1996, just 27 percent of American adults believed that the ...