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It's the same as the radio show. We're going to get right to it here. Tanya Sikanovsky. Am I saying that right?

Great. Yeah, I'm I'm Polish, so I think you're Polish too based on this name. Russian.

Russian, Ukrainian. Ukrainian. Close enough. We're cousins. She's an out and proud lesbian who voted for

Donald Trump and told her friends about it.

And now she's been locked out of most of her friend groups.

And she's going public with what it's been like for her.

We just played the little two-minute story that Fox 11 did on you right before the news.

When did you decide you were going to tell people you're voting for Trump? Because your recent voting history was Hillary in 2016,

Biden in 2020. And is this something that you and your friends always talked about? And

there was a day that you had to say, hey, I'm switching sides?

No, it was more of me watching everything happened on campuses over the last year.

You know, in my friend groups, based on my voting history, based on what I look like,

based on my gender and sexuality, people assume that I am always going to be blue. So the conversation about who I'm

going to vote for wasn't actually a question. The assumption was always there. But after watching

what was going on on campus and how the Biden administration did nothing to prevent students from

Jewish students from attending their classes. I realize that I am

doing a disservice to my Jewish identity if I continue to vote blue. And so it's been festering

all year. I have been very, very vocal about being a Zionist, which has already alienated me from

queer spaces because at this point, especially

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