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Trans and Shut Out in Trump’s America

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Trans rights and access to health care have been under attack on the state level for years, but the second Trump administration and the Supreme Court have accelerated a chilling effect at clinics across the country.

Guest: Grace Byron, author of “The Grim State of Trans Health Care” and “The Bureaucratic Nightmares of Being Trans Under Trump” for the New Yorker. 

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Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.



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families have been gathering for months now. They're there to protest what's happening at the Children's Hospital. Protesters are holding a rally outside Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, after the hospital's

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decision to put a pause on hormonal therapy treatments for new transgender youth patients.

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