How the Trans Community is Gearing Up for Trump's Second Term
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lair Show on WNYC. I'm producer Amina Serna filling in for Brian today. Welcome back, everyone. |
| 0:18.6 | Now we'll take a look at what's in store for transgender people in a second Trump presidency. |
| 0:23.6 | Over the course of the election, then candidate Donald Trump made angst about issues involving the trans community, a cornerstone of his campaign. |
| 0:32.6 | He shelled out big dollars, something to the tune of $215 million, on ads that sounded like this. |
| 0:40.3 | It's hard to believe, but it's true. Even the liberal media was shocked. |
| 0:44.3 | Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal aliens. |
| 0:49.3 | Every transgender inmate would have access. |
| 0:52.3 | Kamala's for they-them. President Trump is for you. |
| 0:56.0 | It's quite a lot of money and time spent focusing on such a small segment of the population. |
| 1:02.0 | Various studies have found that trans people only make up somewhere between 0.5 to 1.6% of the population of the United States. Nevertheless, this proved to be a winning |
| 1:13.4 | message amongst Americans, connecting soccer moms and the alt-right into the same coalition. |
| 1:19.6 | Yet on the same election day that brought forth Republican control of all branches of government, |
| 1:24.9 | Delaware voters cast their ballots for Sarah McBride. She will be our first |
| 1:29.7 | openly trans member of Congress. Her colleagues on the Hill have already put forth a bill |
| 1:34.7 | banning her from using the women's restroom. Take a listen to Congresswoman Nancy Mace |
| 1:40.5 | from South Carolina on why she introduced the bill. So I'm absolutely a hundred percent going to stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a |
| 1:50.0 | women's restroom in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms. |
| 1:53.6 | I will be there fighting you every step of the way. |
| 1:56.2 | Where does this leave? |
| 1:59.2 | All of the estimated 1.6 million people who identify as transgender or non-binary |
| 2:04.9 | in this country? Where are the concrete plans put forward by the President-elect, and how will |
| 2:10.7 | they affect the trans community? What is the community doing to prepare for Trump 2.0? Joining me now to discuss all of these questions is Kate Sossin, LGBTQ plus reporter for the 19th, |
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