Fighting the Anti- Trans Phobia
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Political Strategist Max Burns continues to fill in for John. He speaks with Parker Molloy who is the writer and author of The Present Age, a newsletter about communication in a hyperconnected world. Between 2018 and 2021, Parker was editor-at-large at Media Matters for America, writing about the role right-wing media played in the rise of Donald Trump and the creation of alternate perceived realities. They talk about the life and death challenges facing transgender Americans. Then he chats with Brian in Oregon about piercing the right-wing narrative. Next, he interviews reporters for Rewire News Group - Garnet Henderson and Jessica Pieklo on their new article The Grift of So-Called Crisis Pregnancy Centers. They discuss the anti-abortion movement and new abortion laws in red states. Then finally, Mark in Portland calls in to talk about how to regulated right-wing Crisis Pregnancy Centers.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the John Fugel-Sang podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back, friends. |
| 0:11.0 | You're tuned into serious XM progress and tell me everything with John |
| 0:14.4 | Fugel saying. I'm Mac Burns sitting in for John. Well he gets some much needed rest. |
| 0:19.7 | Now we were just talking about presidential campaign equivalent of an herbal life supplement salesman, Vivic Ramaswami, and as fun as the guy is to laugh at, he's also an extremist, anti-trans, anti-democratic nutcase, and the things he's proposing are anything but a laughing matter. |
| 0:37.0 | And my next guest has been a real leading voice in highlighting just how destructive Republican rhetoric has been to the transgender community, to the gay community, to really everyone who isn't a Republican. |
| 0:48.0 | Parker Malloy is an award-winning writer who's published all over the place, including at her also award-winning |
| 0:54.0 | sub-stack, the present age, which has some of the best political insight around. |
| 0:58.2 | I encourage you to check it out. She's recently written about everything from Ann Coulter, |
| 1:02.3 | pending a New York Times |
| 1:03.5 | op-ed to the many failed efforts of Republican transphobes to dehumanize trans people at the ballot box. |
| 1:10.4 | And we are so lucky to have her joining us now. |
| 1:12.8 | Parker, welcome to the night shift. |
| 1:14.8 | Max, it is so great to be here. |
| 1:17.8 | So we've been buddies on Twitter since the olden days, |
| 1:20.4 | and let me just say it really is an honor to have you here. |
| 1:22.6 | You've been a real light insight on a dark time for trans rights and for the country. |
| 1:27.7 | And I'm sure our listeners are really curious to know what you make of Vivic Ramaswami trying to blame trans people for the Florida |
| 1:35.7 | white supremacist shooting. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, so basically what happened with that was he was being asked on meet the press Chuck Todd was |
| 1:45.0 | asking him about the the manifesto the quote unquote manifesto of the Jacksonville |
| 1:50.6 | shooter and that being motivated by racism. |
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