Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

In America, trans rights debates are multiplying and are perhaps nowhere more fraught than in the criminal justice system.

We look at the balancing of rights it's required when it comes to housing trans prisoners.

And at Russian protests, plenty of people are holding up gold-painted toilet brushes.

Luxuriant loos can tell you a lot about despotic leaders,

so we head into the smallest rooms from history.

But first, for the sixth consecutive day across Myanmar,

tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets.

They've been demonstrating since the military seized power last week, overthrowing the

elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

The army has claimed, without evidence, that an election in November won by Miss Suu Kyi's

party was fraudulent.

On Monday, the top military commander, now in charge, Min Online, made his first televised address since the coup.

He restated a pledge to hold elections after a year-long state of emergency,

and he tried to reassure the public and investors that his interim government would be

different from the oppressive junta

that ran the country for nearly half a century.

But America said yesterday

it'll impose fresh sanctions in response to the coup.

I've approved a new executive order

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