Kate Sosin

CONGRATS!!!

for sure not outing anyone! stories only about people who consent!

What are the stories about trans people in sports that are not being told? What do you wish we would report? 🎾

I feel like you spoke this into reality

my favorite topic

The 19th launches applications for fifth Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowship cohort – plus, a new track The program offers early- and mid-career HBCU alums yearlong, salaried fellowships in reporting, audience engagement, news product and development.

Reporting fellows cover issues through the lens of gender, politics and policy. The audience fellow connects our journalism to readers, while the news product fellow builds digital tools and products that support The 19th’s journalism and help us reach new audiences.

Media Outlets Condemn the Arrests of Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort

We cannot allow colleagues to be subjected to spurious and unwarranted arrest for committing acts of journalism. www.thecity.nyc/media-outlet...

Minnesota targeted by federal government over trans girls in sports The notice comes as the Trump administration faces a substantial backlash to its immigration enforcement in the state, which has led to the shooting deaths of two Minnesotans.

BREAKING: The Trump administration choosing now to go after Minnesota for... trans girls in sports.
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Well... what about the potatoes?!

Fox News really into covering the winter storm these past two days

I promise to teach my children this history

A pregnant mother in ICE detention says she’s bleeding — and hasn’t seen a doctor in weeks Cecil Elvir-Quinonez, who is still breastfeeding her youngest child, is awaiting deportation in a Louisiana ICE facility states away from her family and children.

Cecil Elvir-Quinonez, who is still breastfeeding her youngest child, is awaiting deportation in a Louisiana ICE facility states away from her family and children.

SCOTUS Might Actually Let Trans Kids on the Field Rooting for the “damage control” of a narrow ruling.

Don't sleep on @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social and their take on SCOTUS and trans sports - I guarantee some part of this convo will surprise you slate.com/podcasts/wha...

Justices hear arguments on gender and exclusion in 2 cases on transgender athletes Lawyers for West Virginia and Idaho repeatedly misgendered the girls as they argued that their bans were in line with national policy.

Justices hear arguments on gender and exclusion in 2 cases on transgender athletes @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social for @19thnews.org

you inspire me every day

The All Things Considered segment with @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social is up on the @npr.org website.

I’m just over here grateful that my cereal doesn’t have balls

Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she nurtured kindness On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

"And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting “They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do."

“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.

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Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting “They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”

“We have a six-year-old at school,” she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. “We’re new here,” the distraught woman says in despair. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

it is lifting my attitude toward TV also

Happy New Year, all. Back at work and back on the beat. What stories do you want us to be covering this year in LGBTQ+ news?

50 years ago, Minneapolis redefined LGBTQ+ rights On December 30, 1975, just before the New Year, the city council passed trans-inclusive protections unlike anything the U.S. has been able to achieve.

On December 30, 1975, Minneapolis became the first city to adopt a trans-inclusive LGBTQ+ non-discrimination ordinance. Fifty years later, the U.S. still lacks similar protections on a federal level. https://bit.ly/4aAEWLF

Hiya! a note that due to the very generous benefits of @19thnews.org, today is my last day of the year. Taking a much-needed break. I will see you all next year. ❤️ And thank you.

Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, memo says A Department of Justice memo obtained by Prism says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s January 20 anti-trans executive order

The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state and local prisons, jails and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo. 19thnews.org/2025/12/trum...

There are a LOT of things that AI doesn't come close to having the nuance for

ICYMI from me yesterday: a DOJ memo shows that the Trump Administration plans to roll back prison rape protections for queer and trans people, including in youth detention facilities. More here 👇🏼

Supreme Court declines to hear marriage equality case For the second time, the Supreme Court rejected Kentucky clerk Kim Davis’ attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges.

The Supreme Court will not hear a case to overturn marriage equality, it announced on Monday. The justices have rejected a petition from Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue licenses in the state a decade ago. @19thnews.org

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

“In January 2021 after the politics section had broken our traffic records with coverage of the COVID pandemic, George Floyd protests, election, and Capitol insurrection, Anna Wintour asked [news and politics editor] Lucy Diavolo if we still needed a politics section. After all, Joe Biden had won.”