From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, December 24th.

For today's show, we're doing something special for the holiday that involves no politicians, no other

newsmakers, no other experts, not necessarily holiday-related content, but the guests for today's

show are all you. We are announcing now the topic for this year's Lairor Prize for Community Well-Being. If you're asking,

what's this? Well, five years ago, I was honored that WNYC decided to create an award called the Lairer Prize for

Community Well-Being. Each year, we choose a well-being category in which to honor three recipients.

They get recognition,

a chance to describe their work on the air, and a small cash grant. Past categories have included

individuals or groups who help deliver food to the homebound at the start of the pandemic.

Those who are leaders in social and emotional learning, as many kids

struggle to readjust to in-person school, and last year, those helping asylum seekers get

their feet on the ground as they arrived in New York by the busload. Thank you, Greg Abbott.

Each year, our team looks for potential Lera Prize winners, and we invite you, our listeners,

to supplement our team's research by making nominations as well.

Our community well-being category for this year is people supporting transgender kids.

If you know a person or a group who has excelled this year at supporting transgender

or non-binary minors and their parents medically, socially, or in any other way, we're inviting you to

nominate them for the Lera Prize for Community Wellbeing for 2024. We have a form online at WNYC.org

slash Lera Prize nominate, but we'll kick off the nominations right now by inviting anyone

to call in and name a person or an organization doing good work in supporting transgender

or non-binary kids and their parents.

And as your calls are coming in, I'll talk about why this.

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