#73: The Pro-Bird/Anti-Fandom Caucus

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The panel discuss the recent slate of anti-trans bills, theorize on politics as fandom, and announce their vows for post-pandemic life. Today's flock consists of legal editor Oren Nimni, senior editor Brianna Rennix, amusements and managing editor Lyta Gold, and editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson. This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	From Studio H3 in the Current Affairs World Headquarters, it's current affairs, your ears.
0:07.6	Finest hour of politics and culture.
0:10.5	My name is Nathan Robinson.
0:12.9	I'm the editor-in-of-Carrant.
0:14.6	Tonight, I am joined by Current Affairs Legal Editor, Oren Nimney.
0:19.6	Hello, everyone.
0:20.7	Current Affairs Managing and Amusements Editor, Lighter Gold.
0:25.9	Hi.
0:26.6	And the Current Affairs Lieutenant and Reada Reddits.
0:31.1	Hi, guys. Tonight on the program, we examine the horrendous wave of new anti-trans youth bills popping up in state legislatures around the country.
0:46.2	Light of gold gives a theory on why everything is fandom.
0:51.6	And we finish by presenting our aspirations for the post-pandemic life.
0:59.4	It's current affairs.
1:00.7	Let's get started with Segment 1.
1:03.4	Just a horrible thing that's happening.
1:06.4	In Segment 1, just a horrible thing that's happening.
1:09.4	We take a horrible thing that's happening and we dissect and diagnose it.
1:15.5	You may have read that in a number of states around the country,
1:21.8	Republican legislators are pushing various different bills that either ban trans youth from participating in sports
1:32.9	or that ban various kinds of medical care, including hormone therapy, puberty,
1:41.3	blockers, and gender confirmation surgeries. Some of these bills define
1:46.0	young people to mean anyone under 21, and some of them, including the one in North Carolina,
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