Elisabeth Garber-Paul

RH Reality Check

Elisabeth Garber-Paul is a recent graduate from The New School’s Eugene Lang College, where she was the Editor in Chief of the New School Free Press. She now interns at The Nation magazine in New York, and has been published in OMMA, Media, and The Nation.

Gender Testing and Women’s Sports

Elisabeth Garber-Paul

Testing 18-year-old South African athlete Caster Semenya to determine whether or not she is female is the latest demonstration of the way societies are unable to accept that gender is fluid and people are not always "one or the other."

Afghan Women Face Strict New Law

Elisabeth Garber-Paul

According to a troubling story out of Kabul today, the rights of Shiite women living in Afghanistan—and the relationships they have with their husbands—are significantly curtailed by a bill signed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

VIDEO: Are You a Man Or a Woman?

Elisabeth Garber-Paul

Whenever someone inadvertently finds out that my brother is transgendered, the slew of questions inevitably begins. “Why did he transition? What was he like as a girl? Did you think there was something wrong with him?”

IUDs Now A-OK?

Elisabeth Garber-Paul

I’ve been looking for a new form of birth control for a while. The pill never really interested me—I was on it for nearly a year in high school, but the side effects, along with actually remembering to take it—made it more difficult than helpful.