Hi, fam. I'm Amari Jones, and you're listening to the Translash podcast, a news and culture program that centers the experiences and perspectives of trans people.

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We're so grateful for your support and keep doing it and we'll keep calling out your name.

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We're so energized by all this love across the board. Okay, now on to the heart of our program.

Like so many of you on Saturday, I woke up to celebratory shouts and screams. There's actually

video of me on my IG page,

looking at everyone and telling everyone that I was just woken up by all the screens.

I don't know what I was thinking.

I don't have any makeup, no nothing.

At that moment, I learned that we were officially in the last days of Trump's presidency.

Today we're going to talk about all of that with Congresswoman

Deb Holland, one of the first Native American women serving in Congress, and vice chair

of the LGBTQ caucus in the House of Representatives. This is our land, and we care deeply about it.

And so when you're thinking about the history of our country, Native history is American history.

Then I'm going to talk to Gia Neptune. They are non-binary, trans and two-spirit. And the first out person of any of these identities to be elected to political office in the state of Maine.

Many indigenous languages don't even have gendered languages.

Many Western languages are divided into masculine and feminine,

whereas, especially Pasmequoddy, you know, my native language,

we only have one pronoun.

Before we get started, however,

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