Trans people present this deeply troubling set of freedoms when people need and want order.

Because at the end of the day, we also represent this possibility that you can't figure certain things out

just by looking at someone's body. And that is so troubling to people. And right now, especially as

they feel the world changing around them, I think it's beautiful and amazing and incredibly

liberatory to say, you know what, the world is telling me all these things. My parents are telling

me all these things. My school is telling me all these things. But I know something deeper about

who I am and how I want to manifest that in my body.

Hello and welcome to Wise. It's happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

So I'm speaking to you in April of 2023. And last week, the Kentucky Governor

Bashir, a Democrat, tried to veto this legislation that would ban gender-affirming care for young

people in the state of Kentucky, along with all kinds of other stuff about discussions of sexuality

and gender in school and requiring schools to notify parents about changes of pronouns that

do not conform to the student's biological sex or require like a plan for detransitioning

for certain youth who are under gender-affirming care. A huge slew of like really, really draconian

aggressive and brutal restrictions on trans youth care and trans people's lives. And that piece

of legislation, which was vetoed by the governor, was overridden large majorities of the Republican

House's in Kentucky. It was signed and acted into law. And there's this website you can go do. It's

run just by two volunteers who put together this great website called tracktranslegislation.com.

And if I go there right now and I just pull up and you can sort by state, by bill type and whether

it's signed or enacted, if I just pull up, signed and enacted, I get 16 different pieces of

legislation signed and enacted, going after trans people in one way or another in just March of 2023.

In March of 2023, in the last few weeks, Kentucky, Idaho, Georgia, Utah, Tennessee, Wyoming,

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