Back in 1948 a group of women integrated a Kansas grade school five years before Brown v Board by not taking no for an answer.

What I said was, this is wrong and we're going to do something about it. You wait and see.

Listen to a people's history of Kansas City from K-C-U-R, part of the NPR Network.

Just a heads up, y'all. This episode contains some salty language including some slurs.

What's good, you're listening to Code Switch.

I'm Gene Demby.

And I'm B.A. Parker. Over the last few years we've seen several waves of

panics around trans people and trans women in particular. And today on the show

we're looking at the history of those panics and how they've evolved over time

All right Parker did you do you watch sex in the city at all for sure I mean I mean, I was like 15 or whatever. I wasn't supposed to be when I was

younger fast, okay? And proud of it. Anyway, I remember moving to New York City later on and being like,

this is nothing like my life in New York.

First of all, you can't get around in heels in New York.

They tricked you.

Yeah, I mean, that's why Carrie was always taking cabs, you know?

Yeah, I remember there was a scene in the movie where Carrie, like finally relents and is like swimming it by finally taking the subway.

Anyway, I bring it up because there's a scene I've been thinking about that has aged particularly badly from that show, but it's aged badly in a way that is possibly illuminating. This scene and this whole episode I think kind of shows up on like, uh,

you know, cringe-iest episodes of Sex and the City lists that you know get published online every so often.

Wait, Jean, who's that?

Oh, that's...

I'm Jules Gil Peterson.

I'm a historian by day, not sure what that means I am by night.

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