Phone A Friend: Jeff Main, Executive Director of Point of Pride.
Unf*cking The Republic
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🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
One half of one percent of Americans identify as a gender other than the one assigned to them at birth. And yet our state legislatures found the time to propose more than 550 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in 2023, with over 80 passed into law and nearly all focused narrowly on restricting trans rights. According to Human Rights Watch, since the Transgender Day of Remembrance in November of 2022, at least 33 transgender and gender non-conforming people have been killed in the United States. In 2024, state legislatures are on pace to drop even more legislation.
To help us wrap our minds around the challenges facing the trans community, I spoke with Jeff Main, executive director of Point of Pride, an organization dedicated to helping trans youth and adults access necessary, life-saving health and wellness services. Point of Pride’s vision is a world where trans and gender diverse people see a bright future for themselves—living their authentic truth.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes when we talk, we don't know what the fuck, so we have to call, so we have to call and ask a friend. |
| 0:16.0 | I want to know the things you know |
| 0:22.9 | It'll make a better show |
| 0:26.6 | You're the one assigned to them at birth. |
| 0:50.3 | And yet, our state legislatures found the time to propose more than 550 anti-LGBQ plus |
| 0:56.9 | bills in 2023, with over 80 passed into law, and nearly all focused narrowly on restricting |
| 1:03.5 | trans rights. |
| 1:05.1 | According to Human Rights Watch, since the Transgender Day of Remembrance in November of |
| 1:09.0 | 2022, at least 33 transgender and |
| 1:12.3 | gender nonconforming people have been killed in the United States. |
| 1:16.5 | In 2024, state legislatures are on pace to drop even more legislation. |
| 1:21.8 | To help us wrap our minds around the challenges facing the trans community, I spoke with |
| 1:26.0 | Jeff Main, executive director of Point |
| 1:28.5 | of Pride, an organization dedicated to helping trans youth and adults access necessary, |
| 1:34.3 | life-saving health and wellness services. Point of Pride's vision is a world where trans and gender |
| 1:39.6 | diverse people see a bright future for themselves, living their authentic truth. |
| 1:48.5 | Now, I first met Jeff many years ago when he worked at a different advocacy group, |
| 1:54.6 | and I'm a deep admirer of his work and his ability to communicate hard truths with great warmth and empathy. He's one of the best humans that I know, and it means the world to me in 99 |
| 2:00.1 | that he agreed to come on the show. |
| 2:03.3 | You and FDR. Jeff Mayne. So good to see you. Thank you for coming on the show today. I really appreciate it. |
| 2:11.9 | So good to be here. Thank you for having me. So I gave a brief introduction of what the organization is kind of all about coming into this, |
| 2:22.0 | but better coming from you. Can you just briefly describe what the purpose of the organization |
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