#1479 Torturing Children and Families in the Name of Protecting Them (Trans Rights Throwback)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Original Air Date: 3/29/2022
Today we take a look at the current iteration of the cynical culture wars being waged by conservative Republicans against LGBTQ kids for political gain. The current wave of anti-trans and anti-gay legislation sprouting across the country is not about protecting kids and is absolutely nothing new.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Protecting Women and Children Is a Shield for Transphobia - At Liberty - Air Date 3-17-22
Ch. 2: Andy Marra on Trans Youth Rights - CounterSpin - Air Date 3-4-22
Ch. 3: The Anti-Trans Agenda (w/ Gillian Branstetter) - Know Your Enemy - Air Date 3-20-22
Ch. 5: Protecting Women and Children Is a Shield for Transphobia Part 2 - At Liberty - Air Date 3-17-22
Ch. 6: Don't Say Gay - Today, Explained - Air Date 3-17-22
Ch. 8: Protecting Women and Children Is a Shield for Transphobia Part 3 - At Liberty - Air Date 3-17-22
Ch. 10: Andy Marra on Trans Youth Rights Part 2 - CounterSpin - Air Date 3-4-22
Ch. 11: Protecting Women and Children Is a Shield for Transphobia Part 4 - At Liberty - Air Date 3-17-22
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this throwback edition of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, where we remember the past and choose to repeat it. |
| 0:10.3 | We're still prepping a new episode on the Trump administration's National War on the LGBTQ community in general and on trans people in particular. |
| 0:19.1 | In the meantime, we wanted to give this reminder that their plans are nothing new, |
| 0:22.9 | and that the laboratories of democracy, or in this case the laboratories of despotism, |
| 0:28.2 | Red States have been working on their anti-trans agenda for years. |
| 0:32.7 | This is episode 1479, torturing children and families in the Name of Protecting Them, |
| 0:39.0 | originally published almost exactly three years ago in March 2022. |
| 0:44.3 | Sources today include At Liberty, Counterspend, Know Your Enemy, Democracy Now, Today Explained, and Dumed with Matt Baker. |
| 0:53.2 | Thank you. Today, explained and doomed with Matt Becker. |
| 1:06.8 | To get us started, Nikita, what do you make of this surge in anti-trans legislation across the country, and where is it coming from? |
| 1:15.4 | Yeah, so as most of the listeners will know, this is a truly horrifying surge of legislation across the entire country that is targeting some of the most vulnerable people in this country, |
| 1:21.7 | even in places like New Hampshire and Michigan, that have in other situations been understood as more |
| 1:29.4 | LGBTQ friendly. And a particularly odd feature of them is that while some of them are more |
| 1:36.1 | broadly targeting the LGBTQ plus community, most of them are really honing in on trans people |
| 1:43.1 | and specifically trans youth. So yeah, the questions |
| 1:46.7 | that we have to be asking now are like, why trans people and trans kids in particular? And why now? |
| 1:53.3 | What's going on now? The place that I would kind of locate the start of this particular |
| 1:57.9 | anti-trans surge is in 2015 in Houston when there was a local ordinance |
| 2:03.1 | that would have provided anti-discrimination protections on the basis of gender identity. |
| 2:08.1 | And there was a campaign called the Campaign for Houston that mobilized under the slogan, |
| 2:13.9 | no men in women's bathrooms and manage to successfully prevent this ordinance from going |
| 2:19.5 | forward. So in 2014, you have the Ferguson uprising, followed by the uprisings in Baltimore |
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