(2013/12/03) Emphasis on the T (LGBTQ Rights)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 4 December 2013
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Summary
Edition #778
Emphasis on the T
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Is America Ready to Discuss Transgender Issues? - Majority Report - Air Date: 08-23-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Get over it - Ok Go
Ch. 4: Act 2: Is Gender Just A Construct? - Radio Dispatch - Air Date 5-1-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Mind blown - 40 Watt Hype
Ch. 6: Act 3: There's a lot of new ground to cover with trans issues - Alternet Radio - Air Date: 7-27-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Equality - T. Fernandez
Ch. 8: Act 4: Blogger Confronts Norms About Loving Trans Women - Young Turks - Air Date: 10-26-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Brave - Sara Bareilles
Ch. 10: Act 5: A transgendeed person explains - Radio Disdpatch - Air Date 8-15-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Absolutely Cuckoo - The Magnetic Fields
Ch. 12: Act 6: Anti-LGBT Group Lies, Invents Story About Transgender Student Harassing Classmates - Majority Report - Air Date: 10-30-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Give a damn - Spanky & Our Gang
Ch. 14: Act 7: Safe Schools for trans kids - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 15: Song 7: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 16: Act 8: Get Castrated And We'll Talk, School Board Member Tells Transgender Students - Young Turks - Air Date: 11-26-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 17: Logical consistency is a bullshit detector - Nathan from Vancouver, WA
Ch. 18: The wrongness of imposing policies on incompatible cultures - Rich in Kansas
Ch. 19: We need a discussion on reforming capitalism - Will from Tallahassee
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 20: Final comments on our standing in the world on liberals loving like grown ups
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
Activism:
http://glsen.org
Information for this segment can be found at:
http://glsen.org/article/ssia-reaches-record-levels-support
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/25/katherine-svenson-transgender-castration_n_4338209.html
http://www.transgenderdor.org
http://janetmock.com/2013/11/22/transgender-day-of-remembrance/
http://www.stopbullying.gov/respond/be-more-than-a-bystander
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Katie Goodman, creator: http://katiegoodman.com
Katie Klabusich, activism director: http://katiespeak.com
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| 0:13.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cubsiday from the Majority |
| 0:17.8 | Report, Radio Dispatch, Alternate Radio, the Young Turks and Activism from the Unfucked |
| 0:22.4 | Up project. |
| 0:23.4 | And let me just admit, right up front that today's topic is long overdue. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello average Americans are still trying to wrap their heads around gay and lesbian issues. |
| 0:33.5 | Straight America is not ready yet for transgender issues. |
| 0:36.7 | We in the LGBT community will voice it upon them anyway. |
| 0:40.7 | Yeah, I mean, I think you're right on both accounts. |
| 0:48.1 | It doesn't seem too hard to me to honor how someone wants to be referred to and how |
| 0:59.0 | someone wants to be seen in society. |
| 1:08.2 | It's not the most natural thing for me to do. |
| 1:13.2 | I didn't, to the extent that I know growing up at least, I didn't know any transgender |
| 1:21.8 | people. |
| 1:22.8 | I've worked with, I've come, you know, as an adult, I've worked with some transgender folk |
| 1:31.5 | and, you know, I mean, it's, you get used to it. |
| 1:38.7 | It's not, you know, it's not, you know, I did, I think it was beef cops. |
| 1:48.1 | One of the people working on our show, it's transgender, I didn't know at first. |
| 1:54.6 | One point she told me, and it just wasn't a big deal, you know, by day three on the |
| 2:05.1 | shoot. |
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