Outward | Chase Strangio on Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

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In this episode, Bryan Lowder and Christina Cauterucci sit down with ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio to unpack the strategy behind the latest legal fights over trans healthcare, passports, and military service. They explore how the language of Trump’s executive orders are more overtly cruel than his last administration, what this progression signals policy-wise, and how we can think about the road ahead for caring and protecting each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:11.7	Try for free today at asana.com. Hey everybody and welcome to Outward Slate's LGBTQ podcast. I'm Brian Lauder and editor at Slate and I am joined by my co-host Slate senior writer, Christina
0:39.5	Carterucci. Hey, Christina. How you holding up? Hi, Brian. How you holding up? Um, I'm all right.
0:45.5	I'm here. I'm queer. And that's the best we can hope for. That is the best. That is definitely
0:50.8	the best we can hope for right now. So we've got an important show for you all today. ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio, who you've probably seen in the news a lot recently and who
0:59.5	you may remember from a previous show last spring, will be back with us to discuss the Trump
1:04.0	administration's ongoing attacks against trans Americans and the legal challenges Chase and his
1:08.9	colleagues are leveling in response.
1:11.2	You'll want to hear this because while things are definitely dark right now, those lawsuits are
1:15.7	already beginning to bear some hopeful fruit.
1:19.1	But first, Christina, I wanted to discuss a little bit of breaking news with you.
1:23.2	The day before we were recording this on February 13th, word spread that the National Park Service
1:27.8	had erased all references to the words, transgender and queer, from the webpages of the
1:32.3	Stonewall National Monument. That's the site of the 1969 riots against police harassment
1:36.7	in New York City that are credited with galvanizing the gay rights movement. President
1:40.5	Obama made that area an official monument during his second term. And as I'm sure most
1:45.7	listeners will know, trans women of color like Martha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were integral to
1:50.6	those protests alongside Queers of All Stripes. So this is a real affront to history to erase trans people
1:56.6	from this monument in particular. And it's obviously yet another capitulation to Trump's apparently
2:01.0	illegal gender ideology, executive orders, that among many other damaging impacts, some of which
2:05.7	we're going to talk about with Chase, have been driving the wholesale erasure of trans people
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