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Democracy Now! 2025-12-19 Friday

Democracy Now! Video

Democracy Now!

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for December 19, 2025; Doctors in Jail? Hospitals Stripped of Fed Funding? The Criminalization of Trans Youth Healthcare; Kilmar Ábrego García Reunites with Family, But Trump Admin Threatens to Jail & Deport Him Again; “Terror & Fear”: Trump Moves to Denaturalize Citizens, End Birthright Citizenship, Halt Visa Lottery

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:17.0

So-called gender-affirming care has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable

0:23.6

young people.

0:24.6

This is not medicine.

0:26.6

It is malpractice.

0:28.6

We're done with junk science driven by ideological pursuits, not the well-being of children.

0:36.6

The Trump administrations announced sweeping new measures

0:40.7

that could effectively cut off gender affirming care

0:44.7

for transgender youth across the country.

0:48.4

We'll speak to ACOU Attorney Chase Strangio

0:51.6

and a New York doctor who works with trans youth.

0:55.0

Then to the case of Kilmar Abrago Garcia.

0:59.0

The Maryland father wrongfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year last week.

1:03.0

He reunited with his family after months in ICE detention, but his ordeal is not over.

1:09.0

No matter what this government says, in the end, I still believe this is a country of laws,

1:18.6

a country of justice, and we will put an end to all this injustice.

1:24.6

Plus, we look at the Trump administration's plan to ramp up efforts to strip the citizenship of hundreds of naturalized Americans.

1:35.4

And we'll get response to the Trump administration's move to suspend the diversity visa lottery program, the green card program, in the wake of the Brown University

1:47.4

and MIT shootings. The suspect in both cases has been found dead. All that and more coming

1:54.8

up.

2:00.2

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

2:05.8

The Pentagon says it killed five people in a pair of airstrikes on boats in the eastern Pacific, claiming they were carrying drugs, though again providing no evidence.

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