Targeting Bans That Target Trans Kids Edition
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🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode: Jamilah, Dan and Elizabeth talk with Alex Chen, founding director of the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic at Harvard Law, about bills that prohibit transgender youth from playing sports and accessing gender-affirming health care. Check out his piece here.
The hosts also tackle a question about a father in a blended family who seems to be prioritizing his daughter with his previous wife over his son.
Then, the hilarious hosts of ICYMI, Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher, pop by to translate internet slang that has parents scratching their heads.
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Recommendations:
Elizabeth recommends making DIY sun hats.
Dan recommends reading more Ursula Le Guin, especially Four Ways to Forgiveness.
Jamilah recommends Cali'flour Foods’ Enchilada Bake.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Thursday, April 22nd, the Targeting Bands That Target Trans Kids Edition. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, contributor to Slate's care and feeding parenting column, and mom to Naima, who is eight, and we live in Los Angeles, California. I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer and editor at Slate's Karen Feeding Parenting column and Mom to Naima, who is eight, and we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm Dan Cois. I'm a writer and editor at Slate. I wrote the book How to Be a Family. I'm the dad of Lyra, who's 15, and Harper, who's 13, and we live in Arlington, Virginia. I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. I write the homeschool and family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's nine, Oliver, who's six, and Teddy who's four. |
| 0:40.5 | And we live in Navar, Florida. |
| 0:42.4 | On today's show, we have a question about a father and a blended family who seems to be |
| 0:46.6 | prioritizing his daughter with his previous wife over his relationship with his son with his |
| 0:52.2 | current wife. Then we'll be joined by Alex Chen, director of Harvard Law's LGBTQ Advocacy Clinic, |
| 0:59.0 | to talk to us about the bill's sweeping state legislators targeting transgender children. |
| 1:06.1 | Plus, the wonderful, hilarious host of Slate's newest podcast, I see Y.M.I, are dropping by to quickly |
| 1:12.3 | explain internet slang that has our listeners completely confused. It's the first installment |
| 1:17.8 | of our recurring segment in case you missed it, Mom and Dad. On Slate Plus, we'll be debating |
| 1:23.6 | whether or not it's okay to read your kids text messages and emails. But first things |
| 1:29.7 | first, we always start with triumphs and fails. Dan, which one do you have for us this week? |
| 1:34.4 | I have a minor triumph, I think. So this has been a truly insane and terrible school year for |
| 1:41.2 | everyone. But Lyra has generally done pretty well. Like, |
| 1:45.5 | she's a sophomore now in high school. The work is a lot harder. She really, really hates |
| 1:50.2 | online school, which she just finds basically impossible to pay attention to. But through all |
| 1:55.4 | of that, she has been very diligent. She clearly cares about her performance. And it's not clear |
| 2:00.5 | to me what exactly drives how much she cares about her performance, and it's not clear to me what exactly drives |
| 2:01.7 | how much she cares about her performance, whether it's that she expects herself to get good grades, |
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