Beth Wehmeyer holds her son Henry Hudson for the first time after giving birth at their home Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019, outside Lebanon city limits. Women across rural Tennessee are choosing home births for many reasons, including personalized care, lower Cesarean delivery rates and no longer living close enough to a hospital. At least 11 rural hospitals have closed in Tennessee since 2012. (Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean)
Mark Broekhuizen, 17, walks through the remains of Ken Gluck's house in Mt. Juliet, Tenn., on Friday, March 6, 2020. The walls are the only ones left standing following the tornado that ripped through Middle Tennessee and is where Gluck hid during the storm. (Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean)
After a hard night and in pain, Jefferey Cox is prayed over by friends and family before going to prom with his girlfriend, Landry Clardy, at his home Saturday, April 20, 2019, in Erin, Tenn. Cox became paralyzed from the neck down during a preseason high school football scrimmage. He wasn’t allowed to play football after a severe concussion his eighth grade year, but he begged his mom to play his senior year. (Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean)
Ari Grimes, a 14-year-old cornerback from the Bible Belt state of Tennessee, used football to express his gender identity. Ari no longer uses feminine pronouns at school and in public and is supported by his teammates. Playing football has allowed him to feel more masculine. “I don't know anyone that’s like me to play football. All I've known is that there are some girls that do play football,” Ari said. “Me personally, I haven't known anyone that was originally a different gender, playing as the opposite sex.” (Courtney Pedroza/The Leaf-Chronicle)
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump shakes hands with supporters after he spoke on June 18, 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Supporters of President Donald Trump hold up a flag during a protest against the election results at the Maricopa County Elections Department office on November 5, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. Ballots continue to be counted in many critical battleground states as the final results in the U.S. presidential election remain too close to call. (Photo by Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images)
Fauzia Lala demonstrates a flying kick after a self-defense seminar at the Muslim Association of Puget Sound, in Redmond on Saturday, Dec. 23, 2017. Lala has been studying martial arts for 12 years since a man grabbed her on a public street on her way home from school. She has been teaching at the mosque since 2015, so other women can learn how to defend themselves. Lala has two first-degree black belts in arnis and taekwondo. (Courtney Pedroza/The Seattle Times)
Employees of the Pima County Medical Examiner's office prepare to move a body into a refrigerated semi-truck at the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner on January 14, 2021 in Tucson, Arizona. After reaching capacity amid the COVID-19 pandemic, two refrigerated semi-trucks arrived at the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner for extra storage. (Photo by Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images)
Students at Desert Shadows Middle School pretend to be dead in the grass at Sereno Park during the annual 7th-grade reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg on Nov. 17, 2016. Lying next to them are the homemade wooden guns required for their class grade.
Mia Holmes (upper left) chants from the roof of a car during a march from the Minnesota State Capitol to I94 following Jeronimo Yanez’ not guilty verdict, on Friday, June 16, 2017. (Courtney Pedroza/Star Tribune)
Jaden Woods, 15, poses for a portrait in an outfit he designed and made for his drag persona, Divinity Amazara, to attend his first Pride Parade, in Chicago. The Louisiana native is staying with his Aunt and her wife for the summer while he attends camp and explores the LGBTQ community, which is more free and welcoming than back home. Being in Chicago has allowed him to go from wearing a wig alone for Beyonce concerts in his bedroom, to dressing in full drag on the streets. (Courtney Pedroza/Chicago Tribune)
A child makes her way through the crowd during a protest against the election results at the Maricopa County Elections Department office on November 6, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. The protest was organized by Turning Point Action while ballots continue to be counted in many critical battleground states. (Photo by Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images)
Luis Lara, 12, sweeps up after being told to get off of his phone and help around his aunt and uncle's house in Hoctún, Yucatán. Luis came from Dallas to live with his family and learn Spanish for the summer. (Courtney Pedroza/Dallas Morning News)
Pedro Ramos poses for a portrait at Kachina Park in Phoenix, Arizona on July 14, 2020. (Photo by Courtney Pedroza for the Washington Post)
People exit the Eloy City Hall polling location on November 3, 2020 in Eloy, Arizona. After a record-breaking early voting turnout, Americans head to the polls on the last day to cast their vote for incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. (Photo by Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images)
Relief day service provider, Maurice Thomson (29), sits behind Evelyn Vius (83) at a Sullivan Arc residential house in Woodridge, New York on Oct. 9, 2016. (Courtney Pedroza/Eddie Adams Workshop)
Ethan, 13, Brady, 15, Ashlyn, 8, Cecilia, 12, Oren and Diana Molovinsky (clockwise from left) pose for a portrait at Molovin Farm in Chandler, Ariz. The Molovinsky farm-to-table restaurant, Farmboy Market, Meats, Sandwiches, closed due to financial hardships during the coronavirus pandemic and the family will now focus on their farm. (Courtney Pedroza for The New York Times)
A protester in support of President Donald Trump waves a flag outside the State Capitol Executive Tower on December 14, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. The protest occurred at the same time as Arizona’s Presidential Electors met to cast their ballots for President and Vice President. (Photo by Courtney Pedroza for the Washington Post)
A Rio de Janeiro military police officer waves his gun out of the car while driving down the street after a protest in which police intervened. (Courtney Pedroza/Cronkite News)
Greg Griggs repairs a steering wheel at Greg's Auto Repair on Feb. 28, 2020 in Nashville. Greg has owed the shop for over 30 years and worked at the shop before buying it. Griggs has seen East Nashville transform around him from a place with drug deals, shootings and often robbery to the Main Street, Nashville has become accustom to with a donut shop, hot yoga studio and natural grocer within a block from him. (Courtney Pedroza/The Tennessean)
A supporter of President Trump holds a flag and gun outside the Arizona State Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Courtney Pedroza for the Washington Post)
Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) makes calls to supporters at a phone bank on October 29, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. McSally lost against U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly for Arizona’s Senate seat to join Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in the historically Republican state. (Photo by Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images)
Family members watch as Jechon Anderson’s casket is lowered, during the funeral for the 11-year-old, at Mount Hope Cemetery, on Saturday, June 16, 2018, in the South Side of Chicago. He would rap about “putting guns down” with his stepfather before he was ultimately shot in the head. Anderson was the youngest person killed by gun violence in Chicago at this time in 2018. Anderson is to be buried next to his grandmother who he lived with as a baby, until 2009 when she died of cancer. (Courtney Pedroza/Chicago Tribune)
Joe Arpaio looks at newspaper clippings of himself at his office in Fountain Hills, Ariz. Arpaio was defeated for re-election as sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz. (Courtney Pedroza for The New York Times)
Trianah Pope, 15, leads the majorettes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. College Preparatory High School during the Wear Orange Party for Peace, as part of National Gun Violence Awareness Day. The event fell on what would have been the 21st birthday of Hadiya Pendleton, a team member and honors student who was shot in the back with her friends one week after performing for President Barack Obama's 2013 inauguration. She was 15. (Courtney Pedroza/Chicago Tribune)
CVT Carey Holt (left) and CVT Bea Cruz (right) work to position Ciroc properly for his CAT scan, to determine course of treatment at the University of Minnesota Veterinary Medical Center, on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Jennifer LeMay's two dogs were shot and wounded by a Minneapolis police officer at her home, after the alarm was set off by her children—one of whom witnessed the shooting. (Courtney Pedroza/Star Tribune)
Blake Wooldrige (right) points a toy gun at his younger brother, Nicholas Wooldrige, after his mother told him not to, on Allen Street in Tombstone, Ariz., on April 9, 2016.
Congregants have holy water thrown on them during Timkat, the Ethiopian Orthodox Epiphany celebration, at Kings Hall in Seattle on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018. The celebration started Saturday and continued overnight through Sunday afternoon. After the water is blessed by religious officials it is splashed onto the crowds in honor of Jesus' baptism in the Jordan River. (Courtney Pedroza/The Seattle Times)