Hey fam, it's me Amara.

Welcome to the TransLash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives.

Well, we are fresh from arguments at the Supreme Court about trans people's ability to equally participate in sports

at schools and universities across America. But the debate isn't over. That's because right

across the street from the Supreme Court, the Congress has pending legislation, restricting

trans people's ability to play sports, which was passed by the House and

awaits Senate action. Moreover, additional congressional moves are likely this year, and

hundreds of anti-trans bills, including those on sports, have already been introduced at

the state level. But one of the things driving this debate are mids, out-and-out

pseudoscience, which pushes the advantages that trans people, specifically trans women, supposedly

have, are behind a lot of the controversy. And this fiction does not match the experience of actual trans athletes.

That's why today we are taking on these unproven political talking points

by speaking with a trans athlete who has been at the heart of the debate over athletic competition

and its explosive politicization, Chris Mosher, who has made sports history and has just contributed to a new book called Fair

Game, debunks the core made-up ideas about trans people in sports.

All of this is intentional, and so this idea of intentionally painting, particularly trans women, as being a threat in sports,

is by design to make it easier for discrimination to happen in other areas of life.

But before we get into it, let's start out as always with some trans joy. I'm excited to highlight a rather unconventional sport today that I'm guessing that not too many of you have heard of.

Combat robotics.

By day, Jay Lee is a teacher, and by night they build robots and compete with them at the National Havoc Robot League, or N.H.R.L. They started competing after their

students asked them to sponsor a robotics club. Together, the whole club traveled to the national

competition and put their first robot into the ring. Now Jay builds their own robots, modeled after Mecca from anime, as the

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