The Anti-Trans Hate Machine Rolls On
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The attacks on trans people all over the country have ramped up again this year. This week, Imara delves back into the Anti Trans Hate Machine to bring you up to speed on the latest.
First we talk with Lizette Trujillo, a mother fighting for her trans son in Arizona. She tells us how these bills have hurt her family, her son, and her community,
Next we talk to Vivian Topping, Director of Advocacy and Civic Engagement at Equality Federation. She shares with us her deep and unique understanding of the challenges we’re facing, and how to overcome them.
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Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Callie Wright
Intern: Mirana Munson-Burke
Sound editing: Alexander Charles Adams
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Music: Ben Draghi and ZZK records
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| 0:00.0 | Hey fam, it's Amara. |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome to the Translash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives. |
| 0:16.3 | Today we're bringing you a heavy show, but it's a really important one. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm going to dive back into the anti-trans hate machine to take a look at the ever-escalating |
| 0:25.8 | attacks on trans youth all across the country. |
| 0:29.3 | As we reported last year on the anti-trans hate machine, a plot against equality, what we're |
| 0:35.3 | seeing today as part of a coordinated effort to establish, |
| 0:38.8 | quote, God's kingdom, close quote, on earth and to end democracy. |
| 0:43.7 | The astounding fact for these extremists is that they're willing to sacrifice the well-being |
| 0:48.7 | of trans kids to accomplish all of their goals. |
| 0:52.2 | To be clear, this anti-trans push across the states is not a grassroots movement. |
| 0:58.0 | It is not something Americans want. |
| 1:00.0 | It is something that powerful billionaires and right-wing leaders have put at the center of their agenda, |
| 1:06.0 | and they have enough power to make us all deal with it. |
| 1:10.0 | The sad truth is that they seem to have no limits, no low that they won't sink to. |
| 1:15.6 | The recent move by Governor Greg Abbott of Texas to separate trans kids from parents |
| 1:20.7 | who affirm them is a page that is ripped right out of the worst of America's and even |
| 1:26.1 | the world's past. |
| 1:35.5 | It is why the anti-trans hate machine is likely to exceed last year's record of 198 pieces of anti-trans legislation. |
| 1:41.1 | Our team did extensive reporting on the slate of anti-trans legislation last year. |
| 1:44.7 | If you want to listen to that, you can find the anti-trans hate machine wherever you listen to podcast and make sure you subscribe because we've got another season coming out |
| 1:50.3 | later this year. But because this story is not static, today we're giving you the latest. |
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