from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Thursday, April 6th.

No beating around the bush for an intro today. The legal assault on the rights and even the existence

of transgender Americans is reaching

crisis proportions. Just in the last two days, the governors of Indiana and Idaho signed bills

prohibiting any kind of medical intervention known as gender affirming care to minors,

even with parental consent. The state senate in Tennessee passed a bill, codifying sex as an

immutable trait identified at birth. The Kansas legislature just yesterday overrode their governors

veto of the bill that bans transgender girls and women from girls and women's sports.

That ban now becomes law. And there are so many more examples. Now, an analysis on Vox

says it's a nationally coordinated Republican effort to boost conservative evangelical turnout

in the 24 elections by keeping this issue front and center.

And it's curious on the issue of no gender affirming care for minors, even with their parents' consent,

when Republicans are also running on parental rights as a central platform, parental rights to have it

reported to them by schools if their child

starts going by new gender pronouns in particular. Here are two parents advocating for that in a CBS

news report from Virginia last fall. My parental rights don't stop where your feelings begin.

You cannot have a good quality of education or of mental health, excluding the parent from the process.

So parental rights, when they're seen as limiting trans expression, no parental rights, when they're seen as supporting it.

Another ban on any gender affirming care for minors is being filibustered in Nebraska by a state

senator named McAlea Cavanaugh, don't know if I'm saying her first name, right, who's getting

national attention. Here's Kavanaugh on a local know if I'm saying her first name, right, who's getting national attention.

Here's Kavanaugh on a local ABC affiliate there on Tuesday.

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