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Welcome to redact to tonight, VIP. I'm Lee Camp.

Tonight I have a packed lineup for you, not one but two guests.

First up, let's get into something I haven't addressed recently

on the show, transgender rights. Even though our country has taken a few baby steps here and there

for equality for transgender Americans, the situation is still not good at all. They face discrimination,

persecution, and abuse every single day. So I spoke

with Raquel Willis, a national organizer for the Transgender Law Center and a talented writer.

Here's our conversation. Raquel, thank you for being here. Thanks for having me, Lee.

So last year, the Trump administration banned transgender people from the military with a tweet, oddly enough.

But in our mainstream media actually did talk a lot about that, but it seems that they only get upset for the trans community when it comes to military.

So I was wondering if you could talk about the other ways that the trans community is discriminated against and how important it is to talk about it outside of just the military.

Definitely. So I think we do have to make sure, right, that we understand when President Trump tweeted about the military ban, right, for transgender people.

It was a signal to other industries and other workplaces, of course, that discrimination was okay.

Right.

Really, like a lot of what he's been doing while in office, it's really been a signal, been symbolic in a lot of ways,

but it's been really impacting the different ways that

trans folks move through the world.

And I do also want to lift up, right, that actually in the trans community, thinking about

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