Defending Trans Youth in Alabama
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🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Alabama became the first state to criminalize the act of providing gender-affirming medical care to trans youth, last week. The bill makes it a felony to prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to trans kids under the age of 19. Kaitlin Welborn, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, joins us to discuss her organization’s work challenging the law.
And in headlines: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, Ed Buck was sentenced to 30 years in prison, and an NFT of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet is being auctioned off by its owner.
Show Notes:
ACLU of Alabama – https://www.aclualabama.org/en
Lambda Legal – https://www.lambdalegal.org/
Magic City Acceptance Center – https://www.magiccityacceptancecenter.org/
The Knights and Orchids Society – https://tkosociety.com/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, April 15th. I'm Gideon Resnick. And I'm Treville Anderson. And this is what a day |
| 0:10.0 | sending blessings to anyone celebrating Easter, Passover, Ramadan and Coachella. Yes, they allow us to |
| 0:17.2 | connect with our ancestors who also saw frogs falling from the sky when Swedish house mafia started |
| 0:23.1 | performing. But they loved it though. I don't know if YAH is going to love it this time. |
| 0:31.1 | On today's show, Elon Musk makes a $43 billion bid to buy Twitter. I mean, I could technically afford it. |
| 0:40.4 | Well, technically, but we'll break down for you how that could even work later in the episode. |
| 0:45.3 | Plus, both Florida and Kentucky enact restrictive abortion bans after 15 weeks of pregnancy. |
| 0:51.0 | But first, we're going to tell you more about a blow to trans rights that happened last week. |
| 0:55.6 | Alabama became the first state to criminalize the act of providing gender-affirming medical care |
| 1:00.5 | to trans youth after Governor Kay IV signed SB 184 into law. The bill also called the vulnerable |
| 1:08.3 | child Compassion and Protection Act, which you know is weird, makes it a felony to prescribe |
| 1:16.3 | puberty blockers or hormones to trans kids under the age of 19, a crime that's punishable by up to |
| 1:23.5 | 10 years in prison. Not only could doctors be thrown in jail for providing trans kids with care |
| 1:28.8 | they need, but trans kids themselves, along with their families, could be held criminally liable |
| 1:34.1 | under this law as well. Yeah, that part is the one that seems the wildest. The law is currently set |
| 1:41.2 | to go into effect on May 8th, but on Monday, two physicians filed a lawsuit to block it. |
| 1:46.7 | One of the plaintiffs, Dr. Marissa Ladinsky, said that Governor IV has, quote, |
| 1:51.4 | undermined the health and well-being of Alabama children and put doctors like me in the horrifying |
| 1:56.9 | position of choosing between ignoring the medical needs of our patients or risking being sent to prison. |
| 2:02.9 | And that same day, two families with trans teenagers also sued the state. They are represented by |
| 2:08.3 | a number of LGBTQ plus advocacy organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union or |
| 2:14.0 | ACLU of Alabama. To learn more about the effort to challenge this law in what comes next, |
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