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It's a new year and as we wrestle with what the future holds for transgender people in this moment in time, we begin the season with a glimpse of the potential for positive change. My spouse decided to visit her family in México to celebrate her dad's 80th birthday this past November. It has been a difficult road for their relationship since my spouse came out and only recently have they been communicating on a regular basis. This was the first visit since my spouse began her transition, almost three years ago. Change can happen with effort from all sides.  Information for allies: PFLAG Guide to Being a Trans Ally(PDF) GLAAD Tips for Allies of Transgender People National Center for Transgender Equality ally guide Human Rights Campaign ally guide Places to look for therapy and professional support: Psychology Today Coaching for Cis & Straight Partners of Transgender, Gender Diverse, and LGBTQ+ Folx  More transgender families:  YouTube Channel: Great Scotts YouTube Channel: Jammidodger YouTube Channel: The Rage TikTok: TransitionTogether The Cut: My Husband is Now my Wife: Trans Women's Wives on Their Own Dramatic Transformations Chicago Tribune: Suburban Wife Loves the Person, Not the Gender, After Spouse Comes out as Woman   * * *  Get in touch, I'm happy to hear from you or answer questions. If you would like to support the podcast, consider Buy Me A Coffee or donating to: The Trevor Project, GLAAD, PFLAG and PFLAG International chapters, Lambda Legal, Trans Formations Project, The Williams Institute, your local LGBTQ+ centers.

In this week's episode of then & now, we present a recording of a recent event hosted by the UCLA History Department, "Why History Matters: Reproductive Rights and Justice." This event brought together experts to explore the far-reaching effects of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision in June 2022. Hosted by Kevin Terraciano, the conversation delves into the historical misuse of legal doctrines to limit reproductive freedoms and calls for a comprehensive reproductive justice framework that extends beyond abortion to include the right to have or not have children and to raise children in safe environments. Professor Cary Franklin critiques the Supreme Court's "history and tradition" test in Dobbs, arguing it distorts historical perspectives on liberty and equality, while Dean Alexandra Minna Stern discusses the lasting impacts of eugenic sterilization on marginalized groups, emphasizing how patterns of reproductive oppression persist today. Professor Elizabeth O'Brien examines Mexico's recent Supreme Court rulings decriminalizing abortion and highlights grassroots activism's role in shaping a broader framework for reproductive rights in Latin America. In the U.S., maternal mortality and preventable deaths have risen sharply since the Dobbs decision, underscoring the panel's call for historical research to inform advocacy as surveillance and criminalization of reproductive health grow. Through these comparative perspectives, the discussion powerfully illustrates how understanding historical contexts can guide efforts to protect and expand reproductive rights in the U.S.Kevin Terraciano is a Professor and the Department Chair of History at UCLA. He specializes in Latin American history, especially Mexico and the Indigenous cultures and languages of central and southern Mexico. Among many books and translations, he is the author of The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Ñudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries, a comprehensive study of Mixtec society and their adaptation to colonial rule.Cary Franklin is the McDonald/Wright Chair of Law at UCLA and serves as the faculty director of the Williams Institute at UCLA as well as the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including the Harvard Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the NYU Law Review, the Supreme Court Review, the Virginia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal.Alexandra Minna Stern is a professor of English and history and the Dean of UCLA's Division of Humanities. She co-directs the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab, which studies eugenic sterilization practices in the U.S. and their impact on marginalized groups. She is the author of the award-winning Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, and the author of Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America, which was named a Choice 2013 Outstanding Academic Title in Health Sciences.Elizabeth O'Brien is an Assistant Professor in the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Department of History, specializing in the history of reproductive health in Mexico. Professor O'Brien is also a member of the cross-field group in the History of Gender and Sexuality. Professor O'Brien's 2023 book on colonialism and reproductive healthcare in Mexico, Surgery and Salvation: The 

The season ends with special guest, Abbe Kruger. Abbe is a life coach who dedicates herself to supporting cisgender and straight spouses or partners, and couples, managing changes in sexuality, gender identity and gender expression. Abbe can help anyone, anywhere in the world. In this episode, Abbe shares how a loved one coming out can impact the straight spouse or partner and offers insight into how couples can make it work.   Abbe's coaching website   Season 3 returns in January. Until then, be well and thank you for listening.  Additional Resources Information for allies: PFLAG Guide to Being a Trans Ally(PDF) GLAAD Tips for Allies of Transgender People National Center for Transgender Equality ally guide Human Rights Campaign ally guide More transgender families:  YouTube Channel: Great Scotts YouTube Channel: Jammidodger YouTube Channel: The Rage TikTok: TransitionTogether The Cut: My Husband is Now my Wife: Trans Women's Wives on Their Own Dramatic Transformations Chicago Tribune: Suburban Wife Loves the Person, Not the Gender, After Spouse Comes out as Woman   * * *  Get in touch, I'm happy to hear from you or answer questions. If you would like to support the podcast, consider Buy Me A Coffee or donating to: The Trevor Project, GLAAD, PFLAG and PFLAG International chapters, Lambda Legal, Trans Formations Project, The Williams Institute, your local LGBTQ+ centers.

Alfredo Morabia and Prof. Vickie Mays (UCLA) from AJPH interview Admiral Rachel L Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health, Department of Health and Human Services, and Elana Redfield, J.D., Federal Policy Director at the Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law. HHS is to be applauded for its work in making visible the health, mental health, and data needs of the Transgender population in the US. Some of the foundation for this work has been accomplishments in states. Most of the federal governments targets particularly in public health come from population-based data. How have data about transgenders grown within federal data collection as well at other levels, what actions have been taken to provide evidence for policy development in transgender health? The Williams Institute is known for its data and its use for policy development: What are some of the worries that you have about this population? While there is a lot of progress what are two or three of the things still needing to be lifted up or improved in order to see even better outcomes?

One month into middle school for my son and a student has already used an anti-LGBTQ+ slur against another student in a locker room. The kicker is that we live in what is considered a very progressive area. In this episode, my son and I have a talk about this incident, how a teacher handled it, and what he might have done if the teacher wasn't there.  Related to this episode: UNICEF: How to Talk to Your Kids About Hate Speech Anti-Defamation League: What is "Grooming?" The Truth Behind the Dangerous, Bigoted Lie Targeting the LGBTQ+ Community Lambda Legal: Know Your Rights - Anti-Gay and Anti-Equality Speech Lambda Legal: For Educators - How to Make Your School Safer for LGBTQ Students   Places to look for therapy and professional support: Psychology Today Coaching for Cis & Straight Partners of Transgender, Gender Diverse, and LGBTQ+ Folx    More transgender families:  YouTube Channel: Great Scotts YouTube Channel: Jammidodger YouTube Channel: The Rage TikTok: TransitionTogether The Cut: My Husband is Now my Wife: Trans Women's Wives on Their Own Dramatic Transformations Chicago Tribune: Suburban Wife Loves the Person, Not the Gender, After Spouse Comes out as Woman   Information for allies: PFLAG Guide to Being a Trans Ally(PDF) GLAAD Tips for Allies of Transgender People National Center for Transgender Equality ally guide Human Rights Campaign ally guide     * * *  Get in touch, I'm happy to hear from you or answer questions. If you would like to support the podcast, consider Buy Me A Coffee or donating to: The Trevor Project, GLAAD, PFLAG and PFLAG International chapters, Lambda Legal, Trans Formations Project, The Williams Institute, your local LGBTQ+ centers.    

Shop Talk looks at a Williams Institute study that concludes that LGBTQ people who come out at work face job discrimination as compared to those who stayed in the closet. Caught My Eye covers Quentin Tarantino's pronouncement that he will not watch Toy Story 4. Also, a young man's ice cream stand is closed in Norwood, Mass., and a Wells Fargo employee is found dead at her desk after four days. Lewis Howard Latimer, prolific inventor and polymath, is our Business Birthday. Remember, September is Criterion Month. Play Pick That Flick for your chance to win!We're all business. Except when we're not.Apple Podcasts: apple.co/1WwDBrCSpotify: spoti.fi/2pC19B1iHeart Radio: bit.ly/4aza5LWYouTube Music: bit.ly/43T8Y81Pandora: pdora.co/2pEfctjYouTube: bit.ly/1spAF5aAlso follow Tim and John on:Facebook: www.facebook.com/focusgroupradio

There has long since been a knowledge gap in medical education regarding care of LGBTQIA+ patients. This has manifested itself in health disparities that detrimentally affect the LGBTQIA+ population. This podcast serves as a way to start bridging the gap on order to mitigate the effects of bias, discrimination, and prejudice that queer patients often face in health care. Research has shown that consistent, early exposure in medical education to patients from the queer community has been beneficial in preparing future practitioners for gender inclusive care. We must also do our parts as pediatricians to make sure our queer youth grow into confident, thriving queer adults.  Join Dr. Farrah-Amoy Fullerton, a recent graduate of the pediatric residency program at MCG, and Professor of Pediatrics, Dr. Lisa Leggio, as they introduce LGBTQIA+ health care disparities and describe ways to bridge the gap for eager general practitioners who would like to know more. CME Credit (requires free sign up): Link Coming Soon! References: Bonvicini, K. A. (2017). LGBT healthcare disparities: What progress have we made? Patient Education and Counseling, 100(12), 2357–2361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2017.06.003 Fish, J. N. (2020). Future directions in understanding and addressing mental health among LGBTQ youth. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 49(6), 943–956. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2020.1815207 Nowaskie, D. Z., & Patel, A. U. (2020). How much is needed? patient exposure and curricular education on medical students' LGBT cultural competency. BMC Medical Education, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02381-1 Ormiston, C. K., & Williams, F. (2021). LGBTQ youth mental health during COVID-19: Unmet needs in public health and policy. The Lancet, 399(10324), 501–503. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(21)02872-5 Reisman, T., & Goldstein, Z. (2018). Case report: Induced lactation in a transgender woman. Transgender Health, 3(1), 24–26. https://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2017.0044 Reisner, S. L., Bradford, J., Hopwood, R., Gonzalez, A., Makadon, H., Todisco, D., Cavanaugh, T., VanDerwarker, R., Grasso, C., Zaslow, S., Boswell, S. L., & Mayer, K. (2015). Comprehensive Transgender Healthcare: The gender affirming clinical and public health model of Fenway Health. Journal of Urban Health, 92(3), 584–592. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-015-9947-2 Underman, K., Giffort, D., Hyderi, A., & Hirshfield, L. E. (2016). Transgender Health: A standardized patient case for advanced clerkship students. MedEdPORTAL. https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10518 Wamboldt, R., Shuster, S., & Sidhu, B. S. (2021). Lactation induction in a transgender woman wanting to breastfeed: Case report. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 106(5). https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaa976 Wylie, K., Knudson, G., Khan, S. I., Bonierbale, M., Watanyusakul, S., & Baral, S. (2016). Serving transgender people: Clinical Care Considerations and Service Delivery Models in transgender health. The Lancet, 388(10042), 401–411. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(16)00682-6 The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. (2023, July 10). How many adults and youth identify as transgender in the United States? - Williams Institute. Williams Institute. https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/ https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html Coleman E, Radix AE, Bouman WP, et al. Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8. Int J Transgend Health. 2022;23(Suppl 1):S1-S259. Published 2022 Sep 6. doi:10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644 https://pflag.org/ thetrevorproject.org

The Summer Olympics just ended and I'm always impressed by the overall mental strength component that athletes have to excel at their sports. It takes mental strength to succeed in sports, at work, as parents, and in a situation like many of us where your spouse or partner has come out as transgender. Let's explore this idea of mental strength to help us remain grounded as we navigate a loved one coming out.  Mentioned in this episode: CNBC: I Study and Train Mentally Strong People for a Living - Here are 7 Things They Never Do    Places to look for therapy and professional support: Psychology Today Coaching for Cis & Straight Partners of Transgender, Gender Diverse, and LGBTQ+ Folx    More transgender families:  YouTube Channel: Great Scotts YouTube Channel: Jammidodger YouTube Channel: The Rage TikTok: TransitionTogether The Cut: My Husband is Now my Wife: Trans Women's Wives on Their Own Dramatic Transformations Chicago Tribune: Suburban Wife Loves the Person, Not the Gender, After Spouse Comes out as Woman   Information for allies: PFLAG Guide to Being a Trans Ally(PDF) GLAAD Tips for Allies of Transgender People National Center for Transgender Equality ally guide Human Rights Campaign ally guide     * * *  Get in touch, I'm happy to hear from you or answer questions. If you would like to support the podcast, consider Buy Me A Coffee or donating to: The Trevor Project, GLAAD, PFLAG and PFLAG International chapters, Lambda Legal, Trans Formations Project, The Williams Institute, your local LGBTQ+ centers.

New job, new people can be exciting for most of us and unchartered, anxiety-inducing territory for transgender people who just want to fit in with everyone else. In this episode, I talk to my spouse about her first work retreat where she met new coworkers at an otherwise remote-based company. Places to look for therapy and professional support: Psychology Today Coaching for Cis & Straight Partners of Transgender, Gender Diverse, and LGBTQ+ Folx    More transgender families:  YouTube Channel: Great Scotts YouTube Channel: Jammidodger YouTube Channel: The Rage TikTok: TransitionTogether The Cut: My Husband is Now my Wife: Trans Women's Wives on Their Own Dramatic Transformations Chicago Tribune: Suburban Wife Loves the Person, Not the Gender, After Spouse Comes out as Woman   Information for allies: PFLAG Guide to Being a Trans Ally(PDF) GLAAD Tips for Allies of Transgender People National Center for Transgender Equality ally guide Human Rights Campaign ally guide     * * *  Get in touch, I'm happy to hear from you or answer questions. If you would like to support the podcast, consider Buy Me A Coffee or donating to: The Trevor Project, GLAAD, PFLAG and PFLAG International chapters, Lambda Legal, The Williams Institute, your local LGBTQ+ centers.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has released the 2023 Hate Crimes in California report. The report highlights a whole range of data, looking at hate crimes and hate-related events as reported to law enforcement - and at what communities are being most affected.  And the findings aren't too good for those in the LGBTQ+ community. While overall hate crimes saw a slight decline from 2022 to 2023 hate incidents, such as slurs being used, handing out hate material in public places continue to rise, up 86% from 2022. So, what does this mean for the LGBTQ+ community in California? Are things getting worse and why? To take a closer look at all this, we're joined by Dr. Ilan Meyer, Distinguished Senior Scholar of Public Policy at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. The institute conducts independent research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy, ensuring that facts—not stereotypes—inform laws, policies, and judicial decisions that affect the LGBTQ+ community.

On May 13th, 1998, Rebecca Wight and Claudia Brenner went hiking through Furnace State Park. Unbeknownst to the couple, they were being stalked by Stephen Carr who would ultimately attack the two women unprompted.  Join us as we discuss the unfortunate events that unfolded, the "gay and trans panic" defense used in court, and statistics surrounding crimes against the LGBTQ+ community.    Twitter and Instagram - @biarpodcast Facebook - Bug in a Rug Email us your ideas at biarpodcast@gmail.com   Sources: 12 Crimes That Changed the LGBT World (advocate.com) Appalachian Trail Histories | Rebecca and Claudia · LGBTQ Hate Crime (Student Exhibit) (appalachiantrailhistory.org) CDE (cjis.gov) Fact Sheet on Injustice in the LGBTQ community | National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) Gay panic defense - Wikipedia Imgur: The magic of the Internet Killed For Being Gay: The Murder of Rebecca Wight | by Verity Partington | Medium LGBT people nearly four times more likely than non-LGBT people to be victims of violent crime - Williams Institute (ucla.edu) Michaux State Forest (pa.gov) Murder of Rebecca Wight - Wikipedia Rebecca Wight and Claudia Brenner - Newspapers.com™ The Gay/Trans Panic Defense: What It is, and How to End It (americanbar.org) Victimization rates and traits of sexual and gender minorities in the United States: Results from the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2017 | Science Advances Wayback Machine (archive.org)

June is Pride Month, a time to raise awareness about the LGBTQ+ community, its history and remembering the Stonewall Uprising, current issues facing the community… and it's a time to celebrate diversity and acceptance, hope, progress, joy. I love that allyship is strong this month. Let's explore how one can be a great ally to the LGBTQ+ community this month plus all year.    Related Resources:  Article - Harvard Business Review: What it Means to Be a Better Ally to the LGBTQ+ Community  Resource - ACLU: Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. State Legislatures in 2024  Resource - Trans Legislation Tracker Consider donating to: The Trevor Project, GLAAD, PFLAG and PFLAG International chapters, Lambda Legal, The Williams Institute, your local LGBTQ+ centers Article - Out: 15 Pride Products from Brands that Actually Give Back to the LGBTQ+ Community   Places to look for therapy and professional support: Psychology Today Coaching for Cis & Straight Partners of Transgender, Gender Diverse, and LGBTQ+ Folx    More transgender families:  YouTube Channel: Great Scotts YouTube Channel: Jammidodger YouTube Channel: The Rage The Cut: My Husband is Now my Wife: Trans Women's Wives on Their Own Dramatic Transformations Chicago Tribune: Suburban Wife Loves the Person, Not the Gender, After Spouse Comes out as Woman   Information for allies: PFLAG Guide to Being a Trans Ally(PDF) GLAAD Tips for Allies of Transgender People National Center for Transgender Equality ally guide Human Rights Campaign ally guide     * * *  Get in touch, I'm happy to hear from you or answer questions. If you would like to support the podcast, consider Buy Me A Coffee  

Trigger Warning for discussions of genocide, transphobia, and mention of suicide Note: There are some audio sync issues on this episode between me and Jo. Apologies for that. I'm still learning how to edit audio smoothly. I'm going to leave the episode as is though (unless its just utterly unlistenable). It's a learning experience.  Episode music can be found here: https://uppbeat.io/track/paulo-kalazzi/heros-time Day 3 will dive deep into the historic context surrounding trans identities, look at the origins of the gender binary, look at famous trans individuals throughout history, and tackle the modern manifestations of transphobia and how it all adds up to a trans genocide. Day 3 features special guest Jo Dinozzi, actor, fight choreopgrapher, and Director of A Sketch of New York. Episode notes to follow: Hey, Hi, Hello, this is the History Wizard and welcome back for Day 3 of Have a Day w/ The History Wizard. Thank you to everyone who tuned in for Day 2 last week, and especially thank you to everyone who rated and/or reviewed the podcast. I hope you all learned something last week and I hope the same for this week. This week we're going to be talking about the trans genocide that is currently ongoing in the United States, this is certainly an issue in other parts of the West, such as Canada and the UK, but I live in the US and that's the location that I am most qualified and able to speak on. As with last week we're not going to be starting with what's happening right now in 2024. We're going to dive deep into the historical context surrounding trans gender identities and their perpetual position as a marginalized community. Before we get into that though! I have something special for you this episode! Today we are joined by a guest, my good friend, Jo Dinozzi. Hi Jo, thanks so much for joining me today. So, I thought we'd start today off with an examination of the gender binary and where it all started. According to Suzzanah Weiss, a feminist writer and sexologist with a Masters of Professional Studies in Sexual Health from the University of Minnesota:  “Arguably, modern notions of the gender binary originated during the Enlightenment,” they say. “That's when scientists and physicians adopted what historians call a ‘two-sex model' when describing people's bodies.” This model treated male and female bodies as opposites, and as the only two options. “Up until that point, popular thinkers thought more along the lines of a one-sex model, where male and female bodies were homologous,” explains Weiss. Case and point: female genitalia were viewed as male genitalia turned inward, and female orgasm was deemed necessary for reproduction since male orgasm was. Indeed, the one-sex model had its own problems. Mainly, women were often viewed as incomplete men. “But the two-sex model created new problems, such as the devaluing of female sexuality and the erasure of anyone outside the gender binary,” they say. You can find more information on the one sex theory and the emergence of the two sex theory in Thomas Laqueur's book Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. So far though we've just been looking at Western ideas of gender though, many cultures around the world have far more expansive views of gender, though many of these ideas of gender are still attached to biological features and characteristics. Some examples of these include the Hijra from Hinduism, to further underline how bigoted Western systems of power can be, the British passed a law in 1871 categorizing all Hijra people as criminals. The Bugis ethnic group of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, recognizes three genders beyond the binary. These are the Calalai, the Calabai, and the Bissu.Something interesting to note is while Bugis gender is often described as a spectrum, bissu are deemed to be above this classification: spiritual beings who are not halfway between male and female, but rather embody the power of both at once. In Mexico there is a third gender called Muxes which is deeply embedded within the indigenous Zapotec culture. Since the 1970s, every year in November, muxes celebrate La Vela de las Auténticas Intrépidas Buscadoras del Peligro, or the Festival of the Authentic and Intrepid Danger-Seekers, a day of energetic merriment to honor muxes. There's also Sekarata from the Sajalava people indigenous to Madagascar. They are viewed as both sacred and protected by supernatural powers. There is, of course, Two Spirit people. This is a pan Indigenous North American term that was coined in the 1990s as a way for the indigenous LGBTQIA+ for reject white, Western, ideas about queerness and gender identity. There has been some push back against the term Two Spirit as some see it as inherently recognizing the Western Gender binary. Many indigenous tribes such as Niitsitapi, the Cheyenne, the Cree, the Lakota, and the Ojibwe, to name just a few have their own terms for these gender identities that fall outside of the binary. Those terms are, of course, in their own languages and I think I would only insult some people with how poorly I pronounce them. So, suffice it to say, you can find more information about this on the wikipedia article for Two-Spirit under the subheading Traditional Indigenous Terms. Last culture I want to go over for today is Judiasm. Jewish law, or halacha recognizes 8 distinct genders. The two classic ones that we all know and have mixed feelings about and then 6 others Androgynos, Tumtum, Aylonit hamah, Aylonit adam, Saris hamah, Saris adam.  So, as we can clearly see, the idea of a strict gender binary of only Male and Female isn't an idea that was always widely accepted and the fact that is has crept into so many cultures around the world that had much greater levels of acceptance of diverse identities is solely the fault of western colonialism and white supremacy. Something that should be noted is that gender identity and gender presentation are two different things in a society and often for individuals. I, for example, identify as agender or gender apathetic. I don't identify with any gender at all really, but my gender presentation is decidedly masculine. In my opinion gender identity is internal and specific to each individual person, whereas gender presentation is external and based on the culture you live in and how that society views the way a specific gender traditionally looks. With that out of the way let's talk about the greatest nightmare of Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro… pronouns. You've got them, I've got them, everyone's got them. Well, that might not, actually be true. There might very easily be people who don't feel that any currently available pronoun fits their own concept of gender. I guess it's more accurate to say that I have never met anyone who doesn't use any pronouns. There's a specific set of pronouns that I want to discuss today, though we could likely do a whole other episode on just pronouns. I want to talk about they/them pronouns. Cause, those are really the ones that started this whole temper tantrum conservatives have been throwing for the past several years. They say that they/them is a plural pronoun, and always has been. As if language never changes and we were all STILL speaking Old English.  Hell, when the folks who made the King James Bible were translating it they used thee, thou, thy, and thine as singular and ye, you, your, and yours as plural. Also, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen all used the singular they in their works. It's been in the Canterbury Tales, Hamlet, and Pride and Prejudice. So, if we're gonna be pedantic about it, I have sources to back up my pedantry and they don't. But also, language evolves! We have contronyms now! Words that are their own opposites! So, just chill and take the opportunity to grow, if you haven't already. Next thing to talk about is, of course, the difference between gender and sex. Gender is an internal identity that is based on your own relationship with the concept of gender. Sex is biological and is, frankly just based on your genitals. No one is out there doing chromosome tests on every single baby born. A doctor just looks at your crotch and decides. They'll also assign you a gender at birth based on those same characteristics, but just because you're assigned a gender doesn't mean you have to keep it. We also have to note that, just like gender, sex also exists on a spectrum. And listen, you don't have to believe me. Go watch Season 1, Episode 9 of Bill Nye Saves The World. He'll tell you too, and if you don't trust Bill Nye on Science, you're a fool of a Took. I'm actually going to turn the mic fully over to Jo at this point as she is far better informed on this topic than I am. (Insert Jo here) Now, something that we need to talk about is the Recency Illusion. There are many people that believe trans gender people are somehow a new phenomenon. That they haven't always existed throughout history. So here are some examples for you to do some more reading on, on your own. Ashurbanipal (669-631BCE) - King of the Neo-Assryian empire, who according to Diodorus Siculus is reported to have dressed, behaved, and socialized as a woman. Elagabalus (204-222 CE) - Roman Emperor who preferred to be called a lady and not a lord, presented as a woman, called herself her lover's queen and wife, and offered vast sums of money to any doctor able to make her anatomically female. Kalonymus ben Kalonymus (1286-1328) - French Jewish philosopher who wrote poetry about longing to be a woman. Eleanor Rykener (14th century) - trans woman in London who was questioned under charges of sex work Chevalier d'Eon (1728-1810) - French diplomat, spy, freemason, and soldier who fought in the Seven Years' War, who transitioned at the age of 49 and lived the remaining 33 years of her life as a woman. And, of course: Sylvia Rivera (1951-2002) - Gay liberation and trans rights pioneer and community worker in NYC; co-founded STAR, a group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens, gay youth, and trans women Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992) - Gay liberation and trans rights pioneer; co-founded STAR with Sylvia Rivera, the woman who threw a brick to start the Stonewall Riots And, I would be remiss if we didn't talk about my favorite trans gender individual in history, the Public Universal Friend. The Public Universal Friend was originally a Quaker born in 1752. However, The Friend contracted a very serious illness, suspected to be typhus, in 1776 and nearly died. Once the Friend had recovered they shunned their original name and all gendered pronouns. Asking to be referred to only as the Public Universal Friend, the P.U.F. or simply as the Friend. Whenever someone asked if the Friend was male or female, the Friend would merely reply. “I am that I am”. The Friend would go on to form an offshoot of Quakerism called the Society of Universal friends which, unfortunately, ceased to exist in 1860, 41 years after the Friend's death in 1819. The congregation's death book records: “25 minutes past 2 on the Clock, The Friend went from here.” We're starting to make our way to more modern issues now, next on our docket is the looting of the Institute of Sexology in Berlin in 1933. On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was broken into and occupied by Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later the entire contents of the library were removed and burned. The Institute was founded by Magnus Hischfield in 1919 and was the earliest institution to be doing research into gender affirming surgery, as well as offering contraceptive services and sexual health education. The Institute actually performed one of, if not the first, gender affirming surgery in 1931. It was bottom surgery for a trans woman named Dora Richter. She is believed to have died in the initial attack on the Institute. On May 10th, the German Student Union, a group of young Nazis, dragged every single book and bit of research out of the Institute, piled them in Bebelplatz Square and set them on fire. This was the first, and largest book burning of the 3rd Reich, with over 20,000 books burned. There is no telling how far back trans gender health research was set by this event. Hirschfield wasn't in Germany when the book burning occurred. He was on a world speaking tour and remained in Nice, France after he finished. He died there of a heart attack in 1935. We're getting closer and closer to the modern day now dear listeners. Before we get there I want to talk with you about a resource I like to use called the Pyramid of Hate. It was designed by the ADL based on the Alport Scale of Prejudice, which was created by psychologist Gordon Alport in 1954. The Pyramid illustrates the prevalence of bias, hate and oppression in our society. It is organized in escalating levels of attitudes and behavior that grow in complexity from bottom to top. Like a pyramid, the upper levels are supported by the lower levels; unlike a pyramid, the levels are not built consecutively or to demonstrate a ranking of each level. Bias at each level reflects a system of oppression that negatively impacts individuals, institutions and society. Unchecked bias can become “normalized” and contribute to a pattern of accepting discrimination, violence and injustice in society.  The second level of the Pyramid included bigoted humor as one of these hallmarks of systems of oppression. There are many people who feel that humor is somewhat sacred. That it falls outside the standard array of ethics and that anything can be joked about, because it's just a joke and there's nothing serious about it. If you are the type of person who believes that… well you probably haven't made it this far into the episode. Regardless, let me draw everyone's attention to a PhD dissertation written by former appellate attorney of the Texas 5th Circuit Court Jason P. Steed. Steed says, and I'm quoting directly from a series of tweets he made a few years ago: You're never "just joking." Nobody is ever "just joking." Humor is a social act that performs a social function (always). To say humor is a social act is to say it is always in social context; we don't joke alone. Humor is a way we relate/interact with others. Which is to say, humor is a way we construct identity - who we are in relation to others. We use humor to form groups… ...and to find our individual place in or out of those groups. In short, joking/humor is one tool by which we assimilate or alienate. We use humor to bring people into - or keep them out of - our social groups. This is what humor *does.* What it's for. Consequently, how we use humor is tied up with ethics - who do we embrace, who do we shun, and how/why? And the assimilating/alienating function of humor works not only on people but also on *ideas.* This is why, e.g., racist "jokes" are bad. Not just because they serve to alienate certain people, but also because… ...they serve to assimilate the idea of racism (the idea of alienating people based on their race). A racist joke sends a message to the in-group that racism is acceptable. (If you don't find it acceptable, you're in the out-group.) This is why we're never "just joking." To the in-group, no defense of the joke is needed; the idea conveyed is accepted/acceptable. The defense of “just joking is only ever aimed at the out group. If you're willing to accept "just joking" as defense, you're willing to enter an in-group where the idea conveyed by the joke is acceptable. If "just joking" excuses racist jokes, then in-group has accepted the idea of racism as part of being in-group. This segues us into our next topic fairly smoothly. We're going to be talking about the AIDs crisis. You might be wondering how this is a smooth segue, well that's because when the AIDs epidemic first began in the 1980s, the Reagan administration treated it as a joke. Here's the first exchange between Speakes and journalist Lester Kinsolving from 1982, when nearly 1,000 people had died from AIDS: Lester Kinsolving: Does the president have any reaction to the announcement by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta that AIDS is now an epidemic in over 600 cases? Larry Speakes: AIDS? I haven't got anything on it. Lester Kinsolving: Over a third of them have died. It's known as "gay plague." [Press pool laughter.] No, it is. It's a pretty serious thing. One in every three people that get this have died. And I wonder if the president was aware of this. Larry Speakes: I don't have it. [Press pool laughter.] Do you? Lester Kinsolving: You don't have it? Well, I'm relieved to hear that, Larry! [Press pool laughter.] Larry Speakes: Do you? Lester Kinsolving: No, I don't. Larry Speakes: You didn't answer my question. How do you know? [Press pool laughter.] Lester Kinsolving: Does the president — in other words, the White House — look on this as a great joke? Larry Speakes: No, I don't know anything about it, Lester. Because they saw the AIDs epidemic as one big joke, and because of the massive amounts of homophobia in American politics the Reagan administration did nothing about the thousands and thousands of people dying. But why, why I can hear you asking. Because AIDs, the so called “gay plague” was thought to only affect gay men. They also thought it could be spread through saliva, so there was a joke from a later press conference about the President banning kissing as a way of fighting the spread of AIDs. But I digress. AIDs was thought to only affect a specific part of the population. Gay men. A segment of the population that the Reagan administration didn't want in American society. So when they heard they were dying, instead of doing research, or raising public awareness, or even expressing compassion for the suffering of fellow humans, they did nothing and made bad, poor taste jokes, because they wanted gay men to die.  Now, many people will look at this and say that it wasn't a genocide because the deaths weren't caused by government action, but by government in action. These people are wrong. This was DELIBERATE in action, knowing and planning for that inaction to kill as many people as possible. This was, as clear as it can be, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the group, in whole or in part. Now, no one is saying that Reagan CAUSED AIDs, but he saw what it was doing and specifically did nothing to prevent any of the deaths that it caused. This, finally, brings us to the modern day and the ongoing trans genocide. We have established our historic context, we have set a historic precedent for inaction as a form of genocide. Now we can really get into it.  Remember the Pyramid of Hate that we touched on briefly earlier. Well, Level 3 is Systemic Discrimination and includes Criminal justice disparities, Inequitable school resource distribution, Housing segregation, Inequitable employment opportunities, Wage disparities, Voter restrictions and suppression, and Unequal media representation. There are, according to translegislation.com, in 2024 alone 530 anti trans laws have been placed before various state and federal legislations. I remind you that it is only April 2nd, when this episode first releases. 16 of them have passed, 87 of them have failed, and 430 are still currently active. These bills seeks to discriminate against trans people in almost all areas of life, with the 3 most prevalent categories being Education, Sports, and Healthcare. In 2024 alone 132 bills have been proposed to deny or restrict access of trans people to gender affirming care. But why is this important? Other than because healthcare is a human right that should be freely available to everyone. A new study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, using data from U.S Transgender Population Health Survey found that 81% of transgender adults in the U.S. have thought about suicide, 42% of transgender adults have attempted it, and 56% have engaged in non-suicidal self-injury over their lifetimes. If you are a trans individual and you need mental health services or support, please reach out to the Trevor Project at (866) 488-7386 or call the Trans Lifeline at (877) 565-8860. You're not alone, and you never will be. Now, to return to our regularly scheduled educational program. The US deliberately blocking people from accessing gender affirming care is genocide. Full stop. End of story. According to an article titled Suicide-Related Outcomes Following Gender-Affirming Treatment: A Review, by Daniel Jackson, which is a meta analysis of 23 different studies on the effect of gender affirming care on trans suicide rates, having access to gender affirming care greatly reduces the risk of suicide among trans youth and adults. So if you know that having access to these services will help keep a group of people alive, and you deliberately block access to that service, you are actively trying to kill them. This is, just as with the AIDs epidemic, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the group, in whole or in part. It is also, causing severe bodily or mental harm to members of the group, which is another way in which genocide can be committed. Florida even went so far as to pass a bill, SB 254, banning gender affirming care for minors. They call it child abuse, and will take children away from their parents if the parents try and get the GAC. This is “transferring children of the group to another group” which is a third way in which the US government is committing a trans genocide. There are two more things I want to talk about today. First is detransitioning. There are some people who transition from one gender to another and then go back. Conservative talking heads would have you believe that there is a massive majority of trans people feeling this regret and returning to the gender they were assigned at birth. As with all things, they are lying to you. The results published in the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found that 8% of respondents reported having ever detransitioned; 62% of that group reported transitioning again and were living as a gender other than the one assigned to them at birth at the time of the survey. About 36% reported having detransitioned due to pressure from parents, 33% because it was too difficult, 31% due to discrimination, 29% due to difficulty getting a job, 26% pressure from family members, 18% pressure from a spouse, and 17% due to pressure from an employer. There will certainly be some people who will transition and then find that they don't actually identify with the gender they transitioned to, but that's a fantastically small number, and while those people deserve our empathy and support, they are not representative of the overall trans community. Also it should be noted that you don't have to medically or physically transition to be trans. Many people do this because of gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia. But surgery and/or hormones are not requirements for being trans. I'm technically trans, as I identify with a gender other than the one I was assigned at birth, but I have no intentions of taking hormones or having surgery. I'm just gonna hit the gym and get big muscles. The last thing I want to cover is the epidemic of transphobia that infects this country, and in the present day nothing exemplifies that more than the tragic death of Nex Benedict and the inattentiveness and inaction of her school in protecting her. New was a 16 year old non binary youth attending Owasso High School in Oklahoma. After a year of bullying over her gender identity Nex was attacked by 6 girls in the bathroom. They beat her into unconsciousness. Instead of calling the police or an ambulance, the school called Nex's mother Sue and told her that Nex was suspended for two weeks. Nex was examined by hospital staff, spoke with police, and then was discharged. They went to bed complaining of a sore head. The next day, when getting ready to go with their mother to Tulsa, Nex collapsed and had stopped breathing before the ambulance arrived. The Medical Examiner eventually ruled Nex's death a suicide caused by Benedryl and Prozac, stating that it had nothing to do with the beating Nex received from students at their school.  I think that's bullshit. I have nothing more to say on that other than Fuck Oklahoma and Fuck the Owasso Public School Disctict. That's it for today dear listeners. Stay angry, stay safe. Don't let the bastards get you down. Stick around for the outro. We've got some more reviews over the past week. Some of them aren't technically reviews. Spotify apparently has a Q&A feature, and defaults to “What did you think of this episode?” so I'm going to read those too. *Read Reviews* Jo, thank you so much for being here today and for providing your valuable insight and knowledge. Do you have any projects that you'd like to plug before we sign off? Alright, that brings us right up to the end. Have a Day! w/ The History Wizard is brought to you by me, The History Wizard. PLease remember to rate, review, and subscribe to Have a Day! On your pod catcher of choice. The more you do, the more people will be able to listen and learn along with you. Thank you for sticking around until the end and, as always, Have a Day and remember, Trans Rights are Human Rights.          

Hour 1 * Guest: Dr. Scott Bradley, Founder and Chairman of the Constitution Commemoration Foundation and the author of the book and DVD/CD lecture series  To Preserve the Nation.  In the Tradition of the Founding Fathers – FreedomsRisingSun.com * Your Parents Don't Deserve This – Dennis Prager, PragerU.com * Survey: 3 Out Of 5 Americans Are Lonely – NPR. * Powerful earthquake hits Japan, triggering tsunami warnings. * Have you seen Windwalker a 1981 Western film? * Wife, Mother, Extremist – Peachy Keenan, PragerU.com Hour 2 * The Battle Lines Are drawn: ‘Godless' VS ‘Godley'! * The data is in: These are the gayest states in America – Young adults 18 to 24 are most likely to identify as LGBT – Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller. * The District of Columbia has the highest percentage of LGBTQ individuals in the United States, according to a UCLA study released in December. * In the nation's capital, 14.3% of the population claims to be part of that community, with Oregon, Delaware, Vermont and New Hampshire also topping 7% of their population identifying as LGBTQ, the study by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, said. * The study estimated the total population of LGBTQ individuals is 13.9 million, or roughly 5.5% of the United States population, according to The Hill. * An estimated 1.55 million people in California are LGBTQ, giving it the largest population of LGBTQ individuals, the study said. Texas also has a LGBTQ population of over 1 million individuals, while Florida and New York each have over 850,000 LGBTQ people in them, the study said. Pennsylvania and Ohio each have more than 550,000 LBGTQ individuals, according to the study, with Michigan, Illinois, Georgia and Washington also reaching the top ten. * The study estimates that 35.9% of LGBTQ individuals live in the South (which it defines as including Texas and Florida, and reaching up to Maryland and Delaware), while another 24.5% live in the West, which includes California, Hawaii, Alaska and Colorado. The Northeast, which includes New England, New York and Pennsylvania, has 18.5% of the LGBTQ population, while the Midwest has 21.1%. * Young adults from 18-24 are the most likely to identify as LGBTQ, with 15.2% claiming to be part of that community, while 9.1% of those from 25 to 34 identified as LGBTQ, accounting for over 8.7 million of the estimated 13.9 million LGBTQ individuals in the United States, according to the study. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/loving-liberty/support

* The Battle Lines Are drawn: 'Godless' VS 'Godley'! * The data is in: These are the gayest states in America - Young adults 18 to 24 are most likely to identify as LGBT - Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller. * The District of Columbia has the highest percentage of LGBTQ individuals in the United States, according to a UCLA study released in December. * In the nation's capital, 14.3% of the population claims to be part of that community, with Oregon, Delaware, Vermont and New Hampshire also topping 7% of their population identifying as LGBTQ, the study by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, said. * The study estimated the total population of LGBTQ individuals is 13.9 million, or roughly 5.5% of the United States population, according to The Hill. * An estimated 1.55 million people in California are LGBTQ, giving it the largest population of LGBTQ individuals, the study said. Texas also has a LGBTQ population of over 1 million individuals, while Florida and New York each have over 850,000 LGBTQ people in them, the study said. Pennsylvania and Ohio each have more than 550,000 LBGTQ individuals, according to the study, with Michigan, Illinois, Georgia and Washington also reaching the top ten. * The study estimates that 35.9% of LGBTQ individuals live in the South (which it defines as including Texas and Florida, and reaching up to Maryland and Delaware), while another 24.5% live in the West, which includes California, Hawaii, Alaska and Colorado. The Northeast, which includes New England, New York and Pennsylvania, has 18.5% of the LGBTQ population, while the Midwest has 21.1%. * Young adults from 18-24 are the most likely to identify as LGBTQ, with 15.2% claiming to be part of that community, while 9.1% of those from 25 to 34 identified as LGBTQ, accounting for over 8.7 million of the estimated 13.9 million LGBTQ individuals in the United States, according to the study.

This week we're joined by newlyweds Zeke Smith and Nico Santos! Zeke fangirls over the Attitudes! Podcast Universe and we play a new game - Canning, Mank, Morrison or Murphy! Erin breaks down the Texas Supreme Court overturning a ruling that would've allowed Kate Cox to receive an emergency abortion under the state's “medical emergency” exception, Bryan has an emergency addendum to the new study by the Williams Institute about the gayest state in the country.  Join us on Patreon for hours of bonus content including Dateline and Columbo Recaps, Dolls and more! www.patreon.com/attitudes Get on our Discord and watch the week's Dateline or Columbo episode with your fellow Attituders every Wednesday at 6:30pm PT here: https://discord.gg/ddkjkkAtpF Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comCat is a researcher who focuses on the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American, Mind, Science Magazine, and other publications. Her fascinating new book is Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, and I highly recommend it.For two clips of our convo — on the combat that occurs within a pregnant woman between mother and child, and the magic of nipples while breastfeeding — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: Cat growing up near the “Confederate Mount Rushmore”; her mom the pianist and her dad the research psychologist; Cat helping him in the laboratory he ran; why medical research has ignored female subjects; plastination and Body Worlds; studying the first lactating mammal, Morganucodon; the origins of sex bifurcation; how “binary” is now controversial; how your gut contains countless organisms; how the placenta protects a fetus from being attacked by the mom; the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth; preeclampsia; how human reproduction is much longer than other mammals'; postpartum depression; why the left breast is favored in breastfeeding; the maternal voice; Pinker's The Language Instinct; humans as hyper-social animals; how women hunted and obtained just as much protein as men — in different ways; our omnivore flexibility; sexed voices; how even livers have a sex; the only reliable way to determine the sex of brains; how male cells can end up in a female brain; why women are more likely to wake during surgery; sexual pleasure; bird copulation; duck vaginas; the chimp's “polka dot” penis; why the slower sex of humans was key to our evolution; my challenging of Cat's claim that 20 percent of people are homosexual; and foreskin and boobs and clits, oh my.On that “20 percent of humans are homosexual” question, which I challenged directly on the podcast, it turns out Bohannon made a mistake which she says she will correct in future editions. As often happens, she conflated the “LGBTQ+” category with homosexuality, and relied on a quirky outlier study rather than the more reliable and standard measurements from places like the Williams Institute or Gallup. Williams says 1.7 percent of Americans are homosexual, i.e. gay or lesbian. Gallup says it's 2.4 percent. The trouble, of course, with the LGBTQIA+ category is that almost 60 percent are bisexual, and the “Queer” category can include heterosexuals as well. As a way of polling actual, same-sex attracted gays and lesbians, it's useless. And designed to be useless.Note too Gallup's percentage of “LGBTQIA+” people who define themselves as “queer”. It's 1.8 percent of us. And yet that word, which is offensive and triggering to many, and adopted by the tiniest fraction of actual homosexuals, is now regarded by the mainstream media as the right way to describe all of us. In the podcast, you can see that Cat simply assumes that “queer” is now used universally — because the activists and academics who form her environment have co-opted it. She readily sees how that could be the case, when we discussed it. I wish the MSM would do the same: stop defining all gays the way only 1.8 percent of the “LGBTQ+” “community” do. Of course they won't. They're far more interested in being woke than telling the truth.Browse the Dishcast archive for another convo you might enjoy (the first 102 episodes are free in their entirety — subscribe to get everything else). Coming up: McKay Coppins on Romney and the GOP, Jennifer Burns on her new biography of Milton Friedman, Joe Klein with a year-end review, and Alexandra Hudson on civility. Please send any guest recs, dissent and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

In this queer themed episode, Jenn and Daren celebrate LGBT History Month and Asexuality Awareness Week by marking the importance of “self-naming” and the power of being able to define yourself for yourself outside of society's rules and standards. They talk about vulnerable queer youth and how self-naming can be a source of empowerment for them, and furthermore, how acceptance from their family and friends can lead to healthier life outcomes. From there, they discuss the difference between “coming out and “welcoming in” and the challenge of overcoming guilt and shame around your own identity. They close out the episode with a discussion of pronouns, why people choose different pronouns, and why using someone's chosen pronouns is an act of seeing and respecting someone as they would like to be seen and respected. It's basic human decency and respect. Reference Material: * The Trevor Project 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health - https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2022/ * Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law: New estimates show 300,000 youth ages 13-17 identify as transgender in the US - https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/ * New HRC Data Reveals Over Half of Transgender Youth Ages 13-17 Could Soon Face Barriers to Life-Saving, Medically Necessary Gender Affirming Care - https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/new-hrc-data-reveals-over-half-of-transgender-youth-ages-13-17-could-soon-face-barriers-to-life-saving-medically-necessary-gender-affirming-care www.ThatBlackCouple.com FB: www.facebook.com/ThatBlackCouple Twitter: www.twitter.com/ThatBlkCouple Instagram: www.instagram.com/thatblkcouple iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/that-black-couple-podcast/id1284072220?mt=2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2M7GIQlWxG05gGq0bpBwma?si=xSkjzK0BRJW51rjyl3DWvw Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/that-black-couple Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/That-Black-Couple-Podcast/dp/B0C12M7Q34/ Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/podcast/that-black-couple-podcast/PC:1000149014 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/thatblackcouple Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLnNvdW5kY2xvdWQuY29tL3VzZXJzL3NvdW5kY2xvdWQ6dXNlcnM6Mjc2MDExMzcwL3NvdW5kcy5yc3M Email: ThatBLKCouple@gmail.com Podcast Summary: This is an accidentally funny podcast about the realities of Blackness and adult life. We do “adult” differently. We are That Black Couple. Our goal is to create a space for Black millennials to discuss and embody adult life on their own terms. We aren't beholden to “traditional” gender or parenting roles, queerness is fluid and present in the ways we show up in our relationships and in the world, and we want to build community with other 30-something Black folx who are trying to figure this ish out.

**Originally released April 27, 2022**Get ready for a journey into understanding the evolution of public opinion on the queer and trans communities post the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling. My guest, Dr. Andrew Flores - an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at American University and a visiting scholar at the Williams Institute at UCLA - lends us his extensive research on public sentiment and its impact on the queer community. Together, we tackle the intricate issues of legislative threats, marriage equality, and the emotional complexity of the queer community's relationship with the government.We have an enlightening discussion on how mass media representation has influenced public opinion about the queer and trans communities. The contrasting approaches of Hollywood and the Republican Party towards queer representation provide an interesting perspective on the power of media in shaping societal attitudes. We also delve into how policy changes can impact queer mental health, underscoring the queer community's resilience in the face of numerous challenges. As we round up our episode, the discussion takes a lively turn towards individual actions and their power to drive systemic change. We highlight the toll of anti-trans rhetoric and legislation on children and emphasize the crucial role of both legislative and individual actions in creating a more inclusive society. This insightful conversation, although acknowledging the grim current political climate, manages to end on a positive note, affirming our strong belief in a more hopeful and inclusive future. Tune in for a riveting exploration of these critical issues, painted with a lens of positivity, resilience, and strength.-------------------------Follow Deep Dive:InstagramPost.newsYouTube Email: deepdivewithshawn@gmail.com **Artwork: Dovi Design **Music: Joystock

According to UCLA's Williams Institute, there are over 8 million LGBTQIA+ employees living in the United States. Tragically, nearly half of these employees have endured unfair treatment on the job at some point in their careers, with 57% of this unfair treatment motivated by religious beliefs. These experiences of discrimination are amplified for LGBTQIA+ people who are BIPOC, transgender, and those who live at these intersections.   Given these harsh realities, it's no surprise 50% of LGBTQIA+ employees are not out to their current supervisor, and 26% are not out to anyone on the job. Covering the things that are most precious to who we are compromises our sense of safety and erodes interpersonal trust at work. Exacerbating these barriers, is a renewed anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative campaign attempting to erode the limited rights secured over the past few decades, most acutely targeting transgender and gender expansive people.   If you are committed to advancing your organization's diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) commitments and want to do more for you LGBTQIA+ colleagues during these chilling times, the conversation you're about to hear was created for you. During this conversation, Fiona Dawson provides an opportunity to build more solidarity within & beyond LGBTQIA+ communities, including workplace employee resource groups (ERGs).   Fiona is an Emmy®-nominated and award-winning filmmaker. She's a proud bisexual, cisgender, immigrant woman from the LGBTQIA+ community, and she is the founder and director of Free Lion Productions, where she and her team create content to make diversity, equity, and inclusion programs work. She has received many notable awards including President Obama's LGBT Artist Champion of Change for her Emmy®-nominated short, Transgender, at War and in Love, and the 2018 SXSW Audience Award for her documentary, TransMilitary.   Together, our conversation supports DEIB professionals, along with other inclusive leaders, build stronger and psychologically safer teams across differences. Listeners like you will gain a deeper appreciation of the many dynamic cultures that exist within LGBTQIA+ communities, including workplace employee resource groups (ERGs). Topics explored include:   -Fiona's bestselling book, Are Bisexuals Just Greedy? Animated Answers for All People Who Simply Want to Understand the Spectrum of Being LGBTQ+ -Learning how to engage the silent majority within the LGBTQIA+ community -Recognizing the power of LGBTQIA+ solidarity within ERGs and what gets in the way -Fiona's vision for the future of work   Savor this insightful talk, and if you're looking for more ways to connect with inspiring leaders like Fiona, be sure to join the Belonging Membership Community – a community of leaders committed to advancing their DEIB goals while practicing community care. Members have the unique opportunity to engage with our guests 1:1 after our podcast recordings where they can participate in a private Q&A session with our guest.   To learn more about the Belonging Membership Community, please visit: www.belongingmembershipcommunity.com.   Now, let's jump into the conversation!

In 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that love is love is love and marriage equality became recognized in all 50 states.  Brad Sears warns, however of legislative efforts across the country to roll back LGBTQ rights. Sears is the Founding Executive Director and Rand Schrader Distinguished Scholar of Law and Policy at the Williams Institute.  He is also the Associate Dean of Public Interest Law at UCLA Law.  Sears has published several research studies, primarily on discrimination against LGBT people and people living with HIV.  He has taught courses on LGBT and disability law at UCLA, Harvard, and Whittier law schools.  He has testified before Congress and state legislatures, authored amicus briefs in key court cases, helped to draft state and federal legislation, and been cited frequently by national media.  A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School and has received the Co-Presidents Award from the LGBT Bar Association of Los Angeles in 2019 and the Earl Warren Outstanding Public Service Award from the American Society of Public Administration in 2018.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom comes again when a rightwing political backlash threatens the movement toward true democracy. The situation was similar in 2003, when we reported on the 40th anniversary (featuring Martin Luther King III and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Matt Foreman). A nationally televised 2008 LGBTQ Democratic Presidential Forum presented by the Human Rights Campaign was one of Barack Obama's first stops on his way to the White House. And in NewsWrap: the International Chess Federation at least temporarily prevents transgender women from playing against cisgender women, trans social media influencer Wendy Guevara wins the first season of La Casa De Los Famosos México, vandals attack Berlin's queer Holocaust monument, Williams Institute researchers find that many Florida parents long to escape the “don't say gay” Parental Rights in Education Act, Baptist-run Baylor University in Texas prevails with a religious exemption case before the U.S. Education Department's Office of Civil Rights, nonpartisan judicial watchdog group Fix the Court files a misconduct petition against the Texas appeals judge who sent corporate lawyers to a certifiably anti-queer legal hate group for “religious liberty training,” and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Melanie Keller and David Hunt (produced by Brian DeShazor).  All this on the August 21, 2023 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful. I know that full well. – Psalm 139: 14-15Furthermore, Genesis teaches us that God created humanity, male and female, in His image and likeness, leaving us with two different genders divinely separated. If we truly believe what these passages from the Old Testament say then why do we as a nation find ourselves seemingly trapped in the grip and sway of gender ideology?Consider these startling statistics: The Williams Institute at the UCLA Law School reports that the number of young people identifying as transgender has doubled in the last few years and that 1 out of 5 people who identify as transgender are between the ages of 13 and 17 years old. The number of minors in America receiving a diagnosis of gender dysphoria tripled from 2017 to 2021. In total, more than 42,000 people received this diagnosis in 2021. The hashtag #trans has registered more than 50.2 billion views, and has nearly doubled within the last year. Christian Post journalist Brandon Showalter and Summit Ministries president Dr. Jeff Myers believe that what we face is an unprecedented coupling of post-modernist academic theory with an internet-fueled social contagion targeting vulnerable boys and girls who are struggling with their God-given sex.In their new book, “Exposing the Gender Lie: How to Protect Children and Teens from the Transgender Industry's False Ideology” Showalter and Dr. Myers unpack and explain transgender ideology to reveal its shocking history and its distortion of common sense ideas. Showalter and Dr. Myers join us on the Crossmap Podcast to talk about why transgender ideology has taken the world by storm over the past decade. Listen as they share some practical ways parents can equip their child with the truth about their God-given gender and how to expose the lies that come from transgender ideology.Download the eBook for FREE by clicking hereLinks to Crossmap Crossmap Website Crossmap Facebook

Episode 145: Family Planning for the LGBTQIA+Future Dr. Hoque explains how to assist with family planning for the LGBTQIA+ community. Some principles such as avoiding unintended pregnancies and reducing and early treatment of STIs are discussed.  Written by Ashfi Hoque, MBA, MS4, Ross University School of Medicine. You are listening to Rio Bravo qWeek Podcast, your weekly dose of knowledge brought to you by the Rio Bravo Family Medicine Residency Program from Bakersfield, California, a UCLA-affiliated program sponsored by Clinica Sierra Vista, Let Us Be Your Healthcare Home. This podcast was created for educational purposes only. Visit your primary care provider for additional medical advice.Arreaza: Welcome to episode 145 of the Rio Bravo qWeek podcast. My name is Hector Arreaza, a faculty member of the Rio Bravo Family Medicine Residency Program.Ashfi: Hello everyone, I am Ashfi Hoque a 4th-year medical student at Ross University School of Medicine. I am from Long Beach, California. Patient advocacy and patient-centered care have always been a priority of mine. I've volunteered for years at the LGBT+ center in Weho and Long Beach. Today we will be discussing Family Planning for everyone while learning ways to become LGBTQIA+ inclusive. Arreaza: Yes, family planning is important, and I'm glad you included all types of families. I believe medical care must be offered to everyone, and I also believe in freedom of conscience, that's why I can freely express that I support traditional family for me. Why did you choose this topic?Ashfi: I chose this topic because my partner recently went to get her physical. Her provider had an extensive conversation about family planning and even discussed the anticipated cost of freezing her oocytes. I really loved the way this provider went about the conversation so I started researching ways I can support my community and also teach others to provide Queer inclusive medical care. What is LGBTQIA+?LGBTQIA+ stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, etc. The community will be referenced as the Queer community, an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or not cisgender. There are many inequalities that the community faces and we can do our due diligence to educate ourselves continuously and be aware that terminology and health needs may change. We have another Rio Bravo episode, Caring for LGBTQ+ Patients on Episode 103, that discusses healthcare disparities, but during this episode, we will be diving into an introduction to bridging health gaps, creating health equity, and building trust with the community. A 2023 Global Survey found that the self-identified Queer community represents 9% of the population, while the true estimate may be higher due to safety concerns. While diabetics are 10-13% of the population. These statistics show that as a medical provider, you'll encounter Queer patients more often than you think. One of the healthcare issues that Queer folks face is a lack of family planning.What is Family Planning?The World Health Organization (WHO) defines family planning as “the ability of individuals and couples to anticipate and attain their desired number of children and the spacing and timing of their births. It is achieved through the use of contraceptive methods and the treatment of involuntary infertility.”Family planning serves three critical needs: Avoiding unintended pregnanciesReducing sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)Early treatment of STDs to reduce rates of infertilityWhen discussing family planning for patients, here are some examples of questions you can ask. What name may I use to address you?What are your pronouns?What is your gender? (Only if necessary for care, what is your assigned sex at birth?)Are you sexually active?What is the gender(s) of your partner(s)?Are you concerned about unintended pregnancy?Are you currently using any contraceptive measures?Are you taking any precautions to reduce STI/STD such as physical barriers like condoms, dental dams, or any harm reduction such as PrEP?What kind of STI/STD screening are you requesting?Do you need me to request additional labs such as oral or anal swabs?Those questions must be asked in a natural, non-judgmental way. While STD/STI screening and treatment is part of family planning, the part that we tend to neglect is the desire for Queer folks to build a family. Why is Family Planning Important for the LGBTQIA+ community?The Queer community gained the legal right to marry eight years ago, in 2015. They did not have the nationwide right to adopt until the last state, Mississippi, overturned the unconstitutional restrictions for the Queer community to adopt in 2016. A UCLA study in 2018 titled, “How many same-sex couples in the US are raising children?” reported cis-heterosexual couples: 3% are raising at least one adopted child and 95% are raising biological children while same-sex couples: 21.4% are raising at least one adopted child and 68% have a biological child. When it comes to family planning, there is more than adoption for Queer people. Queer folks are not offered the same pregnancy planning options, such as cis hetero-couples who are experiencing infertility or cis-women planning for advanced maternal age pregnancy. However, the options are quite similar. These options require specific types of planning, and that information can be provided to patients by their primary care doctor. A couple needs to know their options and consider the long-term financial planning necessary for surrogacy, in vitro fertilization (IVF), or donor insemination. The main difference for many Queer couples is the method of conception needed. Depending on sexual orientation and gender identity, patients may have varying reproductive needs as part of their family planning. We cannot make assumptions about how family planning should look and need to remember this journey looks different from person to person and couple to couple.How to approach family planning with the LGBTQIA+ community? Basic tenants of providing medical care for queer patients: Clinics specializing in Queer family planning found patient-centered care leads to better outcomes. The best approach is to be mindful, conscious, and to communicate without assumptions. We have to start with providers building trust, being honest, showing sensitivity assisting with reproductive services, and working towards being more knowledgeable about Queer parenthood. A provider could ask questions such as: Would you like information about family planning?What do you imagine your future family to look like?Would you like to see options and potential costs?Would you need a referral for a specialist?Or it can be as simple as being honest about your scope of knowledge by stating, “I am not well versed in LGBTQIA+ community issues but what ways can I support you?” It is ethically appropriate to transition care to a physician with better knowledge if you feel unable to assist a person from the LGBTQ+ community. Make sure to do it in a polite and respectful way.Gender inclusive: With more people openly identifying as non-binary and trans, there is a need for a gender-neutral approach to discussing a patient's biological and reproductive needs. First, we will avoid assuming gender identity based on the biological sex of a patient. Episode 14 of Rio Bravo does a great job of breaking down gender diversity and the difference between gender identity and biological sex. For transgender and nonbinary patients, providing care for medical transitioning often includes conversations about family planning before starting HRT. It is common to ask patients about to begin HRT if they would like to freeze their sperm or eggs. Second, we want to avoid assuming anything based on what reproductive organs a patient has. We can ask a patient about their intention to start a family. Avoid asking if a trans patient has received transitional surgery (bottom surgery) unless it is completely necessary for the care we are providing. Instead, it is appropriate to ask the patient if birthing is an option? Have you given birth before? Were there any complications? Is there any current hormonal treatment? This mindful strategy is also useful for patients who may have limitations in: producing oocytes or sperm, the ability to house a fetus in utero, or implantation and fertility. Third, we are going to address our underlying beliefs and assumptions about gendered parenthood. Parenthood is almost always thought of as motherhood and fatherhood, but this can be alienating for transgender patients. There are many possible ways of being a parent, and to be inclusive let's consider the possibility of a masculine woman or transmasculine man being a birthing parent or of a transgender woman being the mother of a child without giving birth to the child. There are many more scenarios we can discuss at another point. In the interest of time, we are going to shift into discussing family planning for lesbian and gay people and couples. Sexuality inclusive:For homosexual cis-gendered people who are single or in relationships, family planning can look similar to couples facing infertility issues. When having family planning conversations with these patients, a provider should ask broad, unassuming questions. If you have established that a queer person or couple wants a child, then you can ask if they have a family plan. If the patient or couple has a plan, follow the couple's lead. If the patient(s) do not have a plan, then you can begin to ask questions like: Do you have someone in mind to be a birth giver? Do you have a sperm donor? Do you have an egg donor? These questions are a great transition into discussing the following options for family planning.What are the options for having a newborn and the financial and ethical cost?Having a child can cost up to $100k, and this does not even include the cost of childcare. Infertility treatment is not covered by regular insurance, so patients need either infertility insurance or private financing to cover the cost of treatment. However, fertility insurance does not cover same-sex couples. There is a large emotional, physical, and ethical cost to deciding which route to choose. Let's discuss options and obstacles.1. Donor Insemination: The most affordable route is having a birth-giving parent who is fertile with a known sperm donor. This method can be as simple as using a syringe to inseminate the uterus-carrying person, but we need to consider necessary attorney fees to terminate the parental rights of the sperm donor. Sperm from a sperm bank requires an extensive workup including STD panel, HIV, and genetic disorder screening. The sperm donor gives up all parental rights during the process. The price of these procedures is constantly changing and depends on location.California Cryobank costs start at $1200 for anonymous donors and $1900 for identification disclosure donor which the child will receive information about the donor at age 18. Selecting a donor can include specifics such as race, talents, education, hobbies, physical attributes, and showing donor baby photos. There are two common insemination processes:Intracervical insemination: semen inside the cervical opening and covers the cervixIntrauterine insemination: semen is inserted through the cervix and placed directly into the cavityThe next option jumps up in cost significantly.2. Freezing Eggs (Oocyte Cryopreservation):Pacific Fertility Center Los Angeles, reports a single cycle of egg freezing can cost $6-10k per freezing cycle and may need multiple cycles without medication. The medications are typically around $3-6k depending on how much your body needs. Storage is an additional cost of $700-$1,000 a year. This is an option for parents planning pregnancy during advanced ages.3. In Vitro Fertilization (IVF): It is a process where an oocyte is collected similarly to freezing eggs but fertilized with a partner's or donor's sperm.Pacific Fertility Center Los Angeles reports it costs $8-13k per cycle of fertilization. It is an option for those who have issues with infertility, previous pelvic inflammatory diseases, surgeries, and issues with implantations.4. Surrogacy: This is the process of hiring a professional birthing surrogate to carry an embryo. This is an alternative option for couples who decline or cannot carry a pregnancy. The surrogate has no legal rights or biological relation to the fetus. Family Tree Surrogacy reports it costs about $45-65k.5. Adoption: Foster care adoption in California can be $1-5k. American Cost of Adoption, reports the cost of adoption for infants in California $40-70k including the medical expenses for the birth-giving person and legal expenses for the process. Versus adopting an infant from another country due lack of resources and poverty may better their lives or cause a higher demand for infants which may be an ethical issue. Also, transcultural adoption where the race of the parents and the children are different, and navigating culture and race with the children. Adoptees have reported having racial identity crises.With all these studies, it is well documented that providers will not be perfect at giving care to the Queer community. These studies do not represent every queer person and do not take the intersectionality of race, class, or gender identity into consideration. It is our job as providers to be supportive of all types of patients in order to increase their access to proper medical care. _______________Conclusion: Now we conclude episode number 145, “Family Planning for the LGBTQIA+.” Future Dr. Hoque explained how queer people can be included in family planning conversations, even before heterosexual couples. She described some options such as donor insemination, freezing eggs, IVF, and adoption. Dr. Arreaza explained that it is important to ask reproductive questions in a natural, non-judgmental way to all your patients, and refer to another professional when needed. This week we thank Hector Arreaza and Ashfi Hoque. Audio editing by Adrianne Silva.Even without trying, every night you go to bed a little wiser. Thanks for listening to Rio Bravo qWeek Podcast. 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Last month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that threats of violence against the LGBT community are on the rise. We've also seen a slew of anti-LGBT legislation in statehouses across the country.  In addition to increased hostility and threats to physical safety, the LGBT community also faces higher levels of another form of violence, what Gandhi described as “the worst form of violence”: poverty.In this episode of Policy for the People, we discuss the issue of poverty in the LGBT community with Dr. Bianca D.M. Wilson, a Senior Scholar of Public Policy with the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. The Williams Institute is the nation's leading research center on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy.

Following the  2015 Supreme Court decision in Obergefell, it was unclear how Republicans would respond - if there would be some significant backlash. It seemed that Republicans accepted the decision as the final word on gay marriage, and public opinion polling consistently showed high support amongst voters. And, that support was bleeding into other queer-related issues, notably trans issues. But, in about 2019, early 2020, Republicans started focusing on trans related issues – bathroom bills, who could play on sports teams, etc. Over the past couple of years this has intensified. This year alone, over 400 anti-queer bills have been introduced in statehouses across the country, and the lion's share of them target trans folks and drag performers. In some ways, this is confounding, because by and large – public opinion of queer-related issues remains high. So, why are Republicans doing this? To help me understand this, I'm talking to Dr. Andrew Flores. He is an Assistant Professor of Government at American University and a Visiting Scholar at the Williams Institute at UCLA. He has published extensively on public opinion and the queer community. He also researches hate crimes and violence committed against the queer community. We talk about all of these things. And, after the interview I check in with friend the pod, Justin Hentges (you might remember him from a couple of prior episodes of Deep Dive). I'm checking in with him to, hopefully, remind me that the world is a wonderful place full of wonderful people. -------------------------Follow Deep Dive:InstagramPost.newsYouTube Email: deepdivewithshawn@gmail.com **Artwork: Dovi Design **Music: Joystock

This week Tracey talks about the (in)famous John Radclyffe Hall, a woman who defied gender norms and wrote a famously banned book: The Well of Loneliness. We also discuss the state of LGBTQ+ youth in America today and what can be done to protect the queer communitySources Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radclyffe_Hallhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_inversion_(sexology)Literary Ladieshttps://www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-biography/radclyffe-hall/Spartacus Educationalhttps://spartacus-educational.com/Wradclyffe.htmLegacy Project Chicagohttps://legacyprojectchicago.org/person/radclyffe-hallNational Portrait Galleryhttps://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp01984/radclyffe-hall-marguerite-antonia-radclyffe-hallVoices and Visibilityhttp://voicesandvisibility.org.uk/timeline/radclyffe-hall/Encyclopediahttps://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hall-radclyffe-1880-1943University of Texashttps://www.hrc.utexas.edu/teaching/radclyffe-hall-una-vincenzo-lady-troubridge/biography/https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll106/id/44436/BBChttps://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221121-the-well-of-loneliness-the-most-corrosive-book-everPBShttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/stories/articles/2019/4/1/radclyffe-hall-well-of-loneliness-legacyThe BNAhttps://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2020/06/15/the-well-of-loneliness/The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jan/02/books.gayrightsThe Trevor Projecthttps://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/article/facts-about-lgbtq-youth-suicide/https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2022/NPRhttps://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/1096920693/lgbtq-youth-thoughts-of-suicide-trevor-project-surveyhttps://www.npr.org/2023/03/06/1161452175/anti-drag-show-bill-tennessee-trans-rights-minor-care-anti-lgbtq-lawsNewport Academyhttps://www.newportacademy.com/resources/mental-health/lgbt-suicide-rates/Williams Institute https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/impact-dont-say-gay-parents/Georgetown Lawhttps://www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/04/The-Dangerous-Consequences-of-FLs-Bill-on-LGBTQ-Youth-M.-Johnson.pdfHRChttps://www.hrc.org/resources/myths-and-facts-battling-disinformation-about-transgender-rightsCBShttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/lgbtq-youth-suicide-the-trevor-project-mental-health-2022/Voxhttps://www.vox.com/politics/23631262/trans-bills-republican-state-legislaturesACLUhttps://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights

[This blog will always be free to read, but it's also how I pay my bills. So, if you like what you read, please consider a paid subscription.]On Monday morning, at The Covenant School, a private elementary school in Nashville, TN, a mass shooter opened fire over fourteen minutes, killing three children who were students there, all nine years old, and three staff members before police arrived and took out the shooter, mercifully bringing the horror to an end.The children were Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs. The staff members were Katherine Koonce (the head of the school), substitute teacher Cynthia Peake, and custodian Mike Hill. According to Gun Violence Archive, this is the 150th mass shooting in the United States this year. GVA is an independent research and data collection organization that defines a mass shooting as “four or more people shot or killed, not including the shooter.”This definition has been criticized by some conservatives, who feel that the metric poorly frames America's gun violence epidemic and accuse those who adopt GVA's definition of “four or more injured” as inflating the problem. They point to the FBI's definition of “mass murder,” which describes any type of violent incident in which four or more people are killed, not just injured.Of course, the more you think about it, that doesn't make much sense. For example, if a mass shooter wounds 10 people—perhaps paralyzing several, to say nothing of other longterm health complications of a bullet ripping through one's body—but only kills one person, that would not fit the definition of a “mass shooting” by the FBI.Nor if a mass shooter wounds 50 people but only kills three. Or wounds 100 people but kills none. Neither of these are “mass shootings” under the FBI's definition.Does that make any goddamn sense? Of course not.Okay, well, fine, conservatives might say, but the threshold is still too low because GVA allows for just four people to be injured—not killed—in order to qualify as a “mass shooting.”Some of them may hint that certain injuries are more qualifying than others. What if, they seem to say, four people are merely grazed by bullets, simply burning their flesh rather than entering their bodies?Gee, I don't know, if their child were merely grazed by a bullet, their tender flesh burned by it, how would they feel? Would they think it's a problem worth addressing?Of course they would, and they'd be right. So, we're sticking with GVA's “mass shooting” definition. Because common sense.Last year, there were 647 mass shootings in the United States. In 2021, there were 690 mass shootings. Since January 1, 2016, GVA has tracked 3,581 mass shootings in the United States.When the carnage at The Covenant School began hitting news and social media in a way that has become nauseatingly familiar, the gun extremists immediately starting doing what they do best: pointing fingers and blaming anything but our country's ludicrously easy access to firearms.Fox News contributor Nicole Parker attempted to posit that “side doors” to schools—meaning physical entrances to schools other than the front—are the real problem here.Bless her heart.There were the other usual excuses by gun extremists — their greatest hits of shifting blaming: that teachers should be armed, that it's an issue of mental health, etc.Of course, I'm not sure anyone expected GOP Congressman Tim Burchett to openly admit he and his conservative colleagues have no interest in finding a good faith solution to the gun violence epidemic. I'm not kidding. Here's the full quote, and I'll even link you to the video:“We're not gonna fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals. My daddy fought in the Second World War, fought in the Pacific, fought the Japanese — he said ‘Buddy, if someone wants to take you out and doesn't mind losing their life, there's not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.'”So, there you have it. Criminals are gonna be criminals, the man said. Why bother trying to stop children from being slaughtered? Mr. Burchett's children are homeschooled, by the way.When I first heard of the shooting, my stomach dropped in the same way it has every other time this senseless violence has occurred. And when you find out children were killed, it only compounds that feeling.But this time, on top of that, it was eventually revealed that the shooter—whose name I refuse to mention—was a trans man. Predictably, anti-trans conservatives seized the opportunity to cynically exploit the murder of these children and staff members to further their transphobic propaganda and distract from their own complicity in enabling gun violence. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed testosterone was to blame, something she has never said all the other times when a cis man was behind a mass shooting. Donald Trump, Jr. and others put up tweets and memes implying trans people are especially violent.You see where this is going.The obvious problem here, of course, for anyone who has mastered 3rd grade math, is that the numbers indicate trans people are substantially less likely to commit gun violence compared to cisgender people and far more likely to be victims of gun violence ourselves.Of the 3,581 mass shootings that have occurred in the United States since January 1st, 2016, four were perpetrated by a trans person. I absolutely refuse to count the Colorado Springs mass shooter who murdered five people at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub, and then attempted to claim, through his lawyers, that he identifies as nonbinary, clearly in an effort to troll the victims. And this after neighbors and police brought forward evidence of his long history of anti-LGBTQ hatred.Thus, of that total number of mass shootings since the start of 2016 and the available data on those mass shooters, cisgender people account for 99.9 percent of them. According to a report released last year by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law—which is considered one of the leading data sources on LGBTQ people—the trans community makes up about 0.6 percent of the 267.8 million people in the United States who are age 13 or older.So, trans people make up 0.6 percent of the population but 0.1 percent of mass shooters, six times less than what would be proportionally expected in an even distribution of mass shooters.It turns out that cis people are disproportionately more likely to be mass shooters.I have no problem recognizing that a trans man murdered these children and staff members. I'm glad police arrived and killed him before he could murder other innocents. But if these anti-trans conservatives are gonna demand trans people answer for him, shouldn't they answer for the 99.9% of mass shooters who aren't trans?I have a feeling we'll never get an answer to that.This week, I am holding the families of these children and staff members in my thoughts. I cannot begin to imagine their suffering, and I am filled with rage at this coward, at this piece-of-s**t, who cruelly took the lives of these innocents.I am praying for two things: 1) a measure of peace and healing that must seem impossible for these families in this moment and 2) that anti-trans conservatives will actually start giving a damn about vulnerable children instead of exploiting their deaths to further a hateful agenda.Charlotte's Web Thoughts is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Hi, I'm Charlotte Clymer, and this is Charlotte's Web Thoughts, my Substack. 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Nearly 1 in 10 LGBTQ people in the United States experienced workplace discrimination in the last year, and almost half faced employment bias at some point in their careers, according to a new survey. The findings were published Tuesday in a report titled LGBT People's Experiences of Workplace Discrimination and Harassment by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. It found that 46 percent of LGBTQ workers reported receiving unfair treatment at some point in their careers because of their sexual orientation or gender identity — including being passed over for a job, harassed at work, denied a promotion, or raise, excluded from company events, denied additional hours, or fired. An estimated 9 percent reported being denied a job or laid off in the past 12 months because of their orientation or identity. Leveraging his almost 30 years of experience as a leadership, change management, and diversity and inclusion consultant to cultivate our collective leadership awesomeness. Dr. Steve Yacovelli's, Ed.D. book, “Pride Leadership,” is one of the first to focus on developing leadership talent specifically for the LGBTQ+ Community and its Allies. It's time to channel those qualities into being a more effective and consciously inclusive leader within the workplace and beyond. Critically-acclaimed and award-winning book for LGBTQ+ Leaders and Allies to help expand their leadership skills to better explore what's working and reflect on what could be improved upon. “Pride Leadership” provides the strategies and tools to build a network of leadership support. It's the start of an “LGBTQ+ Leadership Movement” to cultivate and grow leadership competencies. www.SteveOnAmazon.com ✦ The L.I.O.N.S. Program - A Leaders Immersive Opportunity to Nurture Strength ✦ A 6-month learning experience that leverages online learning tools along with face-to-face virtual classroom sessions and self-paced learning. The program takes Leaders on a deep dive into 6 related areas of competency ✦Having Authenticity ✦Leadership Courage ✦Leveraging Empathy ✦Effective Communication ✦Building Relationships ✦Shaping Culture He joined me this week to tell me more. For more information: https://topdoglearning.learnworlds.com/ LinkedIn: @SteveYacovelli

We take a bite out of student loan debt cancellation with Juan Ramiro Sarmiento (he/him), press secretary of Young Invincibles. We examine the history of higher education becoming less affordable, the emergence of student loan debt cancellation as a political platform, and upcoming legal battle over federal loan forgiveness. Additional Resources & References Getting Through the Holidays: Suggestions for LGBTQ+ Folks – a list compiled by the Midwest Institute for Sexuality & Gender Diversity Young Invincibles – elevating the voices of young Americans Debt Collective– a union of debtors COVID-19 and Students in Higher Education – using data collected in the Access to Higher Education Survey, researchers from the Williams Institute in collaboration with the Point Foundation examine the experiences of LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ students during the COVID-19 pandemic What is mutual aid? – this article interview of Dean Space provides an overview of mutual aid as a community-care practice “Diagnosis: Debt” – a reporting partnership between KHN and NPR exploring the scale, impact, and causes of medical debt in America For questions, comments or feedback about this episode: lastbite@sgdinstitute.orgWe've joined TikTok! You can also find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or at sgdinstitute.org Host: R.B. Brooks, they/them, director of programs for the Midwest Institute for Sexuality and Gender Diversity Cover art: Adrienne McCormick ★ Support this podcast ★

The number of youth who openly identify as transgender has nearly doubled since 2017, according to a study from UCLA's Williams Institute. In 2022, 16 states have proposed legislation that would restrict access to gender-affirming care for patients under the age of 18. Dr. Meredithe McNamara, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, joins Geoff Bennett to discuss. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

The number of youth who openly identify as transgender has nearly doubled since 2017, according to a study from UCLA's Williams Institute. In 2022, 16 states have proposed legislation that would restrict access to gender-affirming care for patients under the age of 18. Dr. Meredithe McNamara, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, joins Geoff Bennett to discuss. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

According to The Williams Institute, an LGBTQ think tank at UCLA and more than 800,000 transgender adults are eligible to vote, but barriers to access, or fears of voter intimidation may prevent some trans individuals from even attempting to cast their ballot.  The Williams Institute says that 31 states conduct their elections primarily in person at polling places AND have voter ID laws – and half of  voting-eligible transgender Americans living in these states do not have an ID that correctly reflects their name and/or gender. We spoke with Josie Caballero, Director of US Trans Survey and Special Projects for the National Center for Transgender Equality.

According to The Williams Institute, an LGBTQ think tank at UCLA and more than 800,000 transgender adults are eligible to vote, but barriers to access, or fears of voter intimidation may prevent some trans individuals from even attempting to cast their ballot.  The Williams Institute says that 31 states conduct their elections primarily in person at polling places AND have voter ID laws – and half of  voting-eligible transgender Americans living in these states do not have an ID that correctly reflects their name and/or gender. We spoke with Josie Caballero, Director of US Trans Survey and Special Projects for the National Center for Transgender Equality.

Charlton Copeland joined the faculty in 2007. He teaches Civil Procedure I and II, Federal Courts, Administrative Law, and the Regulatory State. In addition, he has served as the Faculty Coordinator of the Florida Supreme Court Internship Program, and the Law School's Washington, DC Externship Program, where he teaches Federal Policy Making: Legislation, Regulation and Litigation. He is a 2015 recipient of the Richard Hausler Golden Apple Award for the faculty member contributing the most to the student body both academically and through his or her extracurricular activities.His scholarship has focused primarily on the ways in which federalism as a constitutional and political structure is mediated in: the relationship between federal and state courts, the jurisprudence of remedies for state violations of federal law, and the relationship between state and federal implementation of federal policy.  In addition, he has written about the intersection between law and theology as they relate to religion's role in American democracy and the framing of liberationist critiques of same sex marriage.  He is a recipient of the 2013 Dukeminier Award and the Michael Cunningham Prize, from the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School, for the best law review articles published.Professor Copeland is a graduate of Amherst College, Yale Divinity School, and Yale Law School.

Valena Beety is a law professor, an innocence litigator, and a former federal prosecutor. She has exonerated wrongly convicted clients, founded the West Virginia Innocence Project, and obtained presidential grants of clemency for drug offenses. She served as an appointed commissioner on the West Virginia Governor's Indigent Defense Commission. She is currently a professor of law at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O' Connor College of Law and the deputy director of the Academy for Justice, a criminal justice center at the law school.VTasha Mercedes Shelby is a writer and an advocate for incarcerated women. Tasha was wrongly convicted of a crime that did not occur on June 16, 2000 in Biloxi, Mississippi. In her twenty-two years of incarceration, she has earned her GED, taken classes at Millsaps College through the Prison to College Pipeline, and developed as a writer and as an artist. She continues to fight her wrongful conviction and you can learn more about her struggle at Free Tasha Shelby. Alex Waters Alex is the technical producer, audio editor and engineer for the Short Fuse Podcast. He is a music producer and a student at Berklee College of Music. He has written and produced music and edited for podcasts including The Faith and Chai Podcast and Con Confianza. He writes, produces and records music for independent artists, including The Living.  He lives in Brooklyn can can be reached at  alexwatersmusic12@gmail.com with inquiries. 

Researching LGBTQ+ parents is a very complex task, but thankfully the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School is doing the work to form a more complete picture of the queer parenting community, who we are, how we're forming our families, and what supports we need.This episode, host David Dodge talks to Williams Institute Research Director Kerith Conron about the reported rates of queer people in the US, what is and is not know about gay parents, and why it's important for researchers to better learn about us and our kids. They also cover some statistics about the rising number of Gen-Z that identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community, the rates of queer and trans vs. cis and straight adoptive and foster parents, and why those numbers matter when it comes to implementing truly representative policies.Learn more about becoming a father as a gay/bi/trans man at gayswithkids.com/gwk-academy and follow us on social media @gays_with_kidsThanks to this episode's sponsors, Mosie Baby, find out more about at-home insemination kits at MosieBaby.com, and Little Spoon, go to LittleSpoon.com and enter code GWK50 for 50% off your first order of organic baby, toddler and kid food.

Prof. Cary Franklin, a professor at UCLA's School of Law and the Director of the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy and the Williams Institute, joins Jessica to talk through the impact of the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson. Cary and Jessica discuss the rationale behind the ruling and what it could mean for other rights, including LGBTQ rights and the ability to obtain contraception.

22% of LGBTQ+ adults live in poverty, which makes this community twice as likely as others to face hunger. In this podcast, Ami speaks with Senior Scholar of Public Policy Bianca Wilson, PhD, of UCLA's Williams Institute about the unique challenges that LGBTQ folks face around food insecurity. What contributes to LGBTQ people coming up against barriers to accessing food? Dr. Wilson and Ami explore cultural, geographic, and other issues that play a factor. To learn more about the research referenced on today's show, visit https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/projects/pathways-to-justice/.

Dr. Nanette Gartrell and Dr. Dee Mosbacher have been pioneers in the struggle for LGBTQIA+ civil rights for over forty years, contributing essential research, political action, and groundbreaking documentaries on gay and lesbian experiences. On today's episode, I'm honored to sit down with these personal heroes for a conversation about their lives, their activism, and their love. Nanette Gartrell, M.D., is a Visiting Distinguished Scholar at the Williams Institute and holds a Guest Appointment at the University of Amsterdam. Previously on the faculties at Harvard and UCSF medical schools, she is the principal investigator of the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS), which since the 1980s has been following a cohort of planned lesbian families with children conceived through donor insemination. She has published extensively on this topic, including in the New England Journal of Medicine. Her investigations provide information to specialists in healthcare, family services, education, and public policy on matters pertaining to sexual minority parent families. Dr. Gartrell graduated from Stanford University (B.A.), University of California (M.D.), and completed a psychiatry residency and fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D., is a psychiatrist and documentary filmmaker. She was a producer/director of the Academy Award-nominated “Straight from the Heart” and eight other award-winning documentaries. As a public sector psychiatrist, Dr. Mosbacher specialized in the treatment of the severely mentally ill, including many who were homeless. Dr. Mosbacher served as San Mateo County's Medical Director for Mental Health, on the board of California Pacific Medical Center, and on the faculty at UCSF. She has received many awards, including a NOW Women of Power Award and a John E. Fryer Award from the American Psychiatric Association.

Michael and Dr. Jody Herman of UCLA's Williams Institute analyze the increase of people identifying as transgender in America. Original air date: 14 June 2022.

According to a recent study, the number of children ages 13-17 has nearly doubled since 2017. One in 5 teens is identifying as transgender. This is an issue that is dramatically impacting our young people at a high rate, yet other demographics are seeing little to no change. What's going on?How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States? - Williams Institute (ucla.edu)Transgender Young People In U.S. Have Nearly Doubled Recently, Report Shows | The Daily Wire(4) TullipR

Luis Vasquez, a Scholar of Law at the Williams Institute, shares developing research on the discrimination of LGBTQ+ borrowers. His study shows us that LGBTQ+ members experience a 3% to 8% lower approval rate and they are often charged higher interest rates on their mortgages. Yet, there is no evidence that suggests LGBTQ+ borrowers are more risky than heterosexual borrowers. Mentioned in this episode: Pennymac TPO Intro OrginatorConnect.com_Matt Pennymac TPO Outro

In this special episode, Cary Franklin returns Then & Now for a follow-up conversation about abortion rights in the U.S., in light of the leaked Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe vs. Wade  (listen to part 1 here). Listen to Professor Franklin,  Faculty Director of the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy and  of the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, discuss the far-reaching implications of the leaked opinion.

In this episode I am joined by my co-author Alysa Zalma M.D.(Psychiatrist) as well as Dr. Abbie Goldberg. Abbie E. Goldberg is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she also currently serves as the Director of Women's & Gender Studies, and is the current holder of the Jan and Larry Landry Endowed Chair (2020-2023). She graduated summa cum laude from Wesleyan University with a BA in psychology, and received an MA in psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Goldberg is an internationally recognized scholar, speaker, and consultant, who is regularly interviewed by media outlets including the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Boston Globe, and New York Magazine. Her research examines diverse families, including LGBTQ-parent families and adoptive-parent families, as well as the experiences of marginalized groups such as trans youth. A central theme of her research is the decentering of any “normal” or “typical” family, sexuality, or gender, to allow room for diverse families, sexualities, and genders.Dr. Goldberg is the author of over 140 peer-reviewed articles, over 25 book chapters, and four books: LGBTQ Family Building: A Guide for Prospective Parents (APA; 2022), Open Adoption & Diverse Families (Oxford; 2020), Gay Dads (NYU Press; 2012), Lesbian and Gay Parents and their Children (APA; 2010). She is the co-editor of four books: LGBTQ-Parent Families: Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice (Springer; 2013, 2020), LGBTQ Divorce and Relationship Dissolution (Oxford, 2019), the SAGE Trans Encyclopedia (SAGE; 2021), and the SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies (SAGE; 2016). Her research has been cited in numerous amicus briefs filed in cases related to marriage equality, gay adoption, trans civil rights, and other topics (e.g., Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015; Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, 2021). She currently serves as a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Marriage and Family, and serves as an editorial board member on seven journals. She has received research funding from the American Psychological Association, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Williams Institute, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the National Institutes of Health, and the Spencer Foundation, among other sources. She teaches courses on diversity in contemporary families, research methods with diverse families, human sexuality, the psychology of sexual orientation, gender and crime, and ethics in clinical psychology. We discussed the impact of her research, how to best serve children of adoption as well as problems within the system. It was an incredible experience to share time with these dynamic compassionate women.

Town Square with Ernie Manouse airs at 3 p.m. CT. Tune in on 88.7FM, listen online or subscribe to the podcast. Join the discussion at 888-486-9677, questions@townsquaretalk.org or @townsquaretalk. “I am writing to tell you about a matter that is essentially personal, but will result in some changes at work ... I will be transitioning my gender.” That was the statement CEO Wynne Nowland made to employees where she works. In today's show, Nowland will share her personal journey of coming out and her mission of humanizing trans individuals. We will also discuss legislation impacting the transgender community, and in particular, trans youth.   According to a report from the Williams Institute at UCLA, 15 states – including Texas – have enacted or are considering laws that would restrict access to gender-affirming care for young people. How have these issues reached the national stage in such a polarizing manner? In recognition of  “Transgender Day of Visibility”, a legal expert is here to discuss the latest developments in transgender laws and callers share their questions and concerns. Guests: Wynne Nowland  Trans woman and activist CEO of Bradley & Parker  Pete Makopoulos-Senftleber Attorney and President of Trans-Legal AID Clinic Houston Town Square with Ernie Manouse is a gathering space for the community to come together and discuss the day's most important and pressing issues. Audio from today's show will be available after 5 p.m. CT. We also offer a free podcast here, on iTunes, and other apps.

Kate and Leah talk with Cary Franklin, the McDonald/Wright Chair of Law and Faculty Director of the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, about her article "Living Textualism." The article is a broad critique of textualism, using the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County as a foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sabi nila, matitiis ng anak ang magulang pero hinding-hindi matitiis ng magulang ang anak. Pero 40% o 4 out of 10 teenagers sa United States ay pinalayas ng kanilang mga magulang nang mag-“come out” sila sa mga ito as "queer". Hindi biro ang buhay na pagdadaanan mo kung queer ka. Any queer person will tell you this. Kaya't dagdag kalbaryo sa mga Bessie kapag hindi ka pa tanggap ng mga magulang o ng pamilya mo. This is true whether you're gay, trans, lesbian, etc. You alone against the world ang background music forever? Yung inaasahan mong panggagalingan ng lakas mo, itinakwil ka pa na para kang may ketong. Siksik sa drama talaga ang buhay ng mga queer! Aminin!Our friend, Malen, married to a man who comes from a staunch Catholic family teeming with priests,  kikis about how she dealt with the news when her adult son confessed to her what she had suspected all along: that he was queer. Malen offers fighting words of advice and a little bit of admonition to queers out there who might be wallowing in self-doubt and pity, and searching for acceptance, love, and belongingness.  "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne?" (Isaiah 49:15)Buma-Bible din kami pa-minsan-minsan, mga Bes! Kinakaya naman. Sources: 1. “Serving Our Youth: Findings from a National Survey of Service Providers Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth who are Homeless or At Risk of Becoming Homeless.” The Williams Institute with True Colors Fund and The Palette Fun. 2. “Growing Up LGBT in America” Human Rights Campaign.For more resources: www.balutkiki.com.:::::::::If you are listening to us on Spotify, ApplePodcasts, Podchaser, PodcastAddict, etc., please leave us a rating and a review. The reason we ask this is because this helps us appear on searches much quicker and allows people to discover our podcast easier so we are able reach and empower more.Better yet, please tell a friend about us, especially if that friend needs to relate to somebody going through a tough time, like we all sometimes do. Let them know they're not alone.If you want to support our show, please click on the BuyMeACoffee link below. This will ensure we can keep doing what we do.The Balut Kiki Project is a winner at the 2021 Asia Podcast Festival Awards.(If you are a Filipino living in the Philippines and you, or somebody you know, are undergoing depression or having suicidal thoughts, try talking to somebody you trust or please go to the link:    https://doh.gov.ph/NCMH-Crisis-Hotline . It's okay to ask for help. )Support the show

Today, Ari Shaw Director of International Programs at the Williams Institute, and Ingrid Eagly Law Professor at UCLA joins Immigration Nerds. The Williams Institute conducts independent research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy. In March earlier this year, the team completed a comprehensive research paper titled LGBT ASYLUM Cases in the US. Where they tracked the data of LGBTQ-related asylum cases, the types of persecutions experienced worldwide through fear interviews, and provide recommendations to improve our policy and asylum tracking systems. Links: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwilliamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu%2Fpublications%2Flgbt-asylum-claims%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cf7591dccd30a408ddacb08d99260c626%7C3e24825a65844593b7bb3ed4c822a155%7C0%7C0%7C637701766632476469%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=a6JVIXOexqL%2FhJ9IuAHbMY1gxgcfP%2F9TRX78q6o91VE%3D&reserved=0 (https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/lgbt-asylum-claims/) https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanimmigrationcouncil.org%2Fresearch%2Fmeasuring-absentia-removal-immigration-court&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cf7591dccd30a408ddacb08d99260c626%7C3e24825a65844593b7bb3ed4c822a155%7C0%7C0%7C637701766632476469%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=7FmxhDuuA8oTKlJe7x9CCq0qOpBp2vUarDP1LeddQwg%3D&reserved=0 (https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/measuring-absentia-removal-immigration-court)

This is part 2 of a discussion with my wife Chelsea about the Equality Act and our deep concerns about its consequences. We address these basic questions about the potential effect of the Equality Act: Could it crush female sports? Could it harm female privacy and safety in restrooms, locker rooms, and dressing rooms? Could it undo the security and charity of shelters? Sources Consulted: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22hr5%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=1 (H.R.5, 117th Congress (2021-2022)), "The Equality Act" Jonathan Capehart, "https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/27/transphobic-tirade-against-equality-act-masquerading-feminism (A transphobic tirade against the Equality Act masquerading as feminism)," Washington Post, February 27, 2021. Rep. Vicky Hartzler, "https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/civil-rights/443589-the-equality-act-would-lead-to-the-death-of-womens-rights (The Equality Act would lead to the death of women's rights)," The Hill, May 14, 2019. Ryan Kennedy, "https://ktla.com/news/da-cross-dressing-man-secretly-videotaped-women-in-macys-bathroom (DA: Cross-Dressing Man Secretly Taped Women at Macy's)," KTLA5, May 14, 2013. Jason Rantz, "https://mynorthwest.com/188993/man-caught-undressing-in-front-of-girls-at-green-lake-locker-room (Man caught undressing in front of girls at Green Lake locker room)," My Northwest, February 17, 2016. Steve Mays, "https://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/2011/10/cross-dressing_sex_predator_se.html (Cross-dressing sex predator sentenced for Clackamas aquatic park crimes)," Oregon Live, January 10, 2019. Associated Press, "https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/shelter-says-it-beat-back-rule-it-take-transgender-women-n1060721 (Alaska shelter can turn away transgender women following city decree)," NBC News, October 1, 2019. "https://thefamilyleader.com/transgender-school-policy-leaves-town-terrified (Transgender school policy leaves town terrified)," The Family Leader, Accessed March 13, 2021. Centers for Disease Control, "https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/childsexualabuse.html (Preventing Child Sexual Abuse)," March 20, 2020. Centers for Disease Control. "https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/sexual-violence/index.html (Sexual Violence is Preventable)," December 16, 2020. Sam Pazzano, "https://torontosun.com/2014/02/15/a-sex-predators-sick-deception (A sex predator's sick deception)," Toronto Sun, February 15, 2014. Sam Pazzano, "https://torontosun.com/2014/02/26/predator-who-claimed-to-be-transgender-declared-dangerous-offender (Predator who claimed to be transgender declared dangerous offender)," Toronto Sun, February 26, 2014. Andrew R. Flores, Taylor NT Brown, and Jody Herman, https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Race-Ethnicity-Trans-Adults-US-Oct-2016.pdf (Race and ethnicity of adults who identify as transgender in the United States), (October 2016), Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, Calif. Andrew R. Flores, Jody L. Herman, Gary J. Gates, and Taylor N.T. Brown. https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Trans-Adults-US-Aug-2016.pdf (How many adults identify as transgender in the United States?), (June 2016), Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, Calif. Sarah Kramer, "https://adflegal.org/blog/school-district-changes-its-restroom-policy-then-ignores-sexual-assault-five-year-old-girl#close (School district changes its restroom policies—then ignores the sexual assault of a five-year-old girl)," Alliance Defending Freedom, October 2, 2018. Scriptures Cited: Matthew 19:4 Ephesians 5:14 Podcast Plugs: https://www.graceandpeaceradio.com (Grace and Peace Radio) with Anthony Russo ***** Like what you hear? https://www.truthspresso.com/donate (Donate) to Truthspresso and give a shot of support! *****