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Welcome to the waves for Thursday, November 1st, the Radical Gender Ideology Edition.

I hope you all had an excellent Halloween yesterday.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's In Fitzhabilia. In the New York studios, we have June Thomas, senior managing producer of the Slate Podcast Network. Hello, June. Hello, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hello, Noreen. I feel like I got a less British greeting from you. Hello, Noreen. Hello. Thank you. How was that? That was better. Oh, my God. Hannah, I didn't know you did a British accent. Why have you been holding this back from us? I did. Because I can't, I can't do an upper class British accent, so I'm a little self-conscious about it. It's too much watching of scandal, whatever that show was. I watched like 400 episodes of that. Shameless. Shameless, thank you. Oh, my God, it's set in Manchester. You should be talking like me then. Exactly. I watched a lot of that at one point. All right. So our topics today, we're going to talk about the Trump

administration's attempt to roll back trans rights. Second, online hate speech and what it does

to women. And finally, the widely popular newsletter, The Skim, and what it says about millennial

women. And then in our Slate Plus segment, we will discuss, June, take it away.

Well, in our Slate Plus segment, we will discuss, June, take it away. Well, in our Slate Plus segment, we will discuss whether it's sexist to expect Hillary Clinton to change her mind about Monica Lewinsky.

We'll be debating that.

And if you want to hear that segment, and if you want to support Slate's journalism and get ad-free podcasts and take advantage of many of the benefits,

you can go to slate.com slash the waves plus to learn more about Slate Plus.

All right. Let's talk about the trans rollback. The Trump administration is taking on transgender

rights on many fronts, legal and administrative. They're considering a

policy change that would narrowly define gender as a biological condition determined by

genitalia at birth, and just in lots of creative ways trying to essentially define transgender

people out of existence. So we're going to discuss exactly what they're doing and what they

are so afraid of with Alex Barish, who is our production assistant and has written about the Trump proposals.

Hi, Alex.

Hey, happy to be here, although I wish under different circumstances.

But you're always here with us.

Now you're just here and they can hear you being here.

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