How to Vote as a Trans Person
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The 2024 elections are only three months away, and turning up at the polls is critical. But the complex landscape of voter ID laws across the U.S. can make voting a challenge. This week, Imara takes a look at the proliferation of these laws, and the potential disenfranchisement of trans voters whose name, gender markers, and appearance may not match voter registration records. First, she talks with NBC Out reporter Jo Yurcaba about the barriers to updating government IDs across different states and the potential impacts on everything from school board elections to the presidential race. Next, she’s joined by Josie Caballero from Advocates for Trans Equality, who shares advice and resources to help make sure everyone is able to cast their ballot in November.
To get more information on updating your ID, registering to vote, and casting your ballot, check out the following resources:
VoterRiders: visit https://www.voteriders.org/pride/ or call/text their voter ID hotline at 844-338-8743
TRANSform the Vote: https://transformthevote.org/voting
TransLifeline’s ID Change Library: https://translifeline.org/resources/id-change-library/
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TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media.
Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Aubrey Calaway.
Xander Adams is our senior sound engineer and a contributing producer.
This episode was sound engineered with help from Lucy Little.
Oliver Whitney and Courtney Cobb are our social media producers.
Theme Music: Ben Draghi and ZZK records.
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| 0:00.0 | A quick heads up, that the two conversations included in this episode were recorded before |
| 0:05.6 | President Biden dropped out of the presidential race. |
| 0:18.2 | Hey, fam, it's me, Amara. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome to the trans-lash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories |
| 0:24.2 | to save trans lives. Well, the stakes of the upcoming November elections are high and becoming |
| 0:31.4 | clearer and clearer by the day, which means that everyone needs to be ready to take themselves to the polls, |
| 0:39.3 | not only because of the top of the ticket, the presidential race, but also down ballot, |
| 0:46.3 | including local school boards and state legislatures, where the issues of trans people |
| 0:52.3 | and trans lives are taking center stage. |
| 0:56.4 | But voting as a trans person can bring up a host of complications, |
| 1:00.8 | especially in light of a string of voter ID laws, |
| 1:03.4 | which have gone into effect over the last couple of years. |
| 1:07.5 | The bottom line is that it can always be easy to vote while trans. |
| 1:11.6 | But that's why we want to make sure that each of you has exactly the information that you need in order to make your voice heard. |
| 1:18.6 | First, I'm joined by reporter Joe Yer Kaba, who walks us through the thicket of voter ID laws across the country and what it means for ballot access. |
| 1:28.4 | These barriers to voting are having the intended effect. |
| 1:31.9 | And then it seems like now we're also seeing |
| 1:34.8 | as just an apathy toward the idea that there can be any change. |
| 1:38.8 | Next, I'll talk with Director of Voting and Elections |
| 1:41.4 | at Advocates for Trans Equality, Josie Cavalliero, about how to vote |
| 1:46.0 | and why showing up this year means so much. |
| 1:50.0 | One of the things that we have to realize is that if Trump were to be elected again, |
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