Outward | The “Protect the Children” Trap: How Trump Targets Trans Rights

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

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Bryan Lowder sits down with journalist Nico Lang to discuss their recent article for Slate It Was Never About Protecting Kids on Trump’s Executive Order restricting gender-affirming care for minors. They examine how the administration is using “child protection” rhetoric as a cover for anti-trans policies, the real-world impact on trans youth and their families, and the history of this political strategy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.2	Terms and conditions apply. Hi, everybody, and welcome to Outward Slate's LGBT podcast.
1:19.3	I'm Brian Lauder and editor at Slate.
1:21.3	And this week, we're going to take a bit of a step back from the endless flurry of Trump
1:26.0	administration news and consider a broader view of how we got
1:30.4	here. Specifically, we're going to look at how an anti-trans movement that just a year or two ago
1:35.8	build itself as being merely about, quote, protecting children, transformed so quickly into a far
1:42.3	more ambitious and vicious one, attacking the lives of trans adults and trans youth alike.
1:47.6	As we know, that saved the kids' branding strategy unfortunately worked on a lot of people, especially parents, across the political spectrum,
1:54.8	and Trump's campaign invested in it to the tune of many millions of dollars in anti-trans political ads.
2:00.4	Yet, on Trump's first day of office,
2:02.2	it was passports and official gender markers that his State Department went after, and the
2:07.1	project of limiting the script of trans public life has only escalated from there. To help us
2:12.4	understand this shift, or you might accurately call it a con job, I'll be joined today by journalist and friend of the show Nico Lang,
2:19.9	who's recently published a piece in Slate under the headline.
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