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

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41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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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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I'm Brian Lauder and editor at Slate.

1:21.4

And this week, we're going to take a bit of a step back from the endless flurry of Trump administration news and consider a broader view of

1:29.8

how we got here. Specifically, we're going to look at how an anti-trans movement that just a year or two

1:35.6

ago billed itself as being merely about, quote, protecting children, transformed so quickly

1:41.5

into a far more ambitious and vicious one, attacking the lives of trans adults

1:46.3

and trans youth alike. As we know, that Save the Kids' branding strategy unfortunately worked on a lot

1:51.8

of people, especially parents, across the political spectrum, and Trump's campaign invested in it

1:56.5

to the tune to many millions of dollars in anti-trans political ads. Yet, on Trump's first state of

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