Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast.

This is a sample of our recent bonus episode, usually only available to members.

These episodes are comprised of our crew of researchers, Amanda and myself all getting

together for a roundtable discussion on topics that we find interesting.

So here's a few minutes for free so you can know what all the fuss is about.

We're going to be talking about the politics of bathroom use in a variety of scenarios.

I went through some ideas for titles for today's show.

I was just going to run by everyone.

So like, shit talking and talking shit basically writes itself.

I mean, that's obvious.

I thought, you know, maybe a little crass.

I thought the deeply personal is political, but I thought it might be too subtle.

So I've landed on political movements.

We have a lot of fun here.

So a few stories have all come together and made it suitable to discuss collectively.

I pulled one from a few years ago as a starting point.

It's not the starting point in humanity, but starting point for us.

A few years ago, attention turned toward public bathrooms when trans people began to mention

that they existed in the world and also needed to excrete waste matter from their bodies.

And then that became a discussion for the entire country to decide whether or not that

should be allowed.

And so there was an article, I mean, there's probably more than one article, but there

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