Trans Rights, Representation, and Remembrance With Kate Sosin
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🗓️ 18 November 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This week is Trans Awareness Week, leading up to the Trans Day of Remembrance on Saturday. This year is particularly important because 2021 is the deadliest year on record for trans and nonbinary people in the U.S., according to the Human Rights Campaign. Kate Sosin, the LGBTQ+ Reporter for the non-profit news organization, The 19th, joins us to discuss the rights and safety of trans people in America, among other trans news.
And in headlines: tensions at the border between Belarus and Poland temporarily eased, two men found guilty of assassinating Malcolm X in 1965 are expected to be exonerated today, and President Biden unveiled a plan to drastically increase the country’s investment in coronavirus vaccines.
Show Notes:
Kate Sosin at The 19th News – https://19thnews.org/author/kate-sosin/
GLITS – https://www.glitsinc.org/
Marsha P. Johnson Institute – https://marshap.org
TransLatin@ Coalition – https://www.translatinacoalition.org
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday November 18th. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Gideon Ressick. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Trevelle Anderson and this is What A Day by Crypto.com, the podcast formerly |
| 0:13.3 | known as What A Day by Staples. |
| 0:15.6 | While we will miss the free office supplies, we're excited to learn more about our new |
| 0:19.4 | partners at Crypto.com. |
| 0:21.9 | Starting with what exactly it is that they do. |
| 0:23.9 | And then printing t-shirts that say Crypto.com, I honestly have no idea. |
| 0:31.3 | On today's show, some migrants at the border of Belarus and Poland were finally moved |
| 0:35.4 | to shelters. |
| 0:36.4 | Plus, President Biden announced a plan for the U.S. to produce a billion COVID vaccines |
| 0:41.0 | starting at the end of next year. |
| 0:42.7 | But first we're going to focus on the rights and safety of trans people in America. |
| 0:47.6 | And Trevelle, this is all the more important because of a deeply tragic staff that we talked |
| 0:52.0 | about last week. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, so 2021 became the deadliest year on record for trans and non-binary people in |
| 0:58.0 | the U.S. according to the Human Rights Campaign. |
| 1:00.8 | It said at least 45 trans and genonoccaforming people have been killed this year. |
| 1:05.3 | And we say at least because trans deaths are often undercounted because they go unreported |
| 1:09.9 | or misreported by police, the media and medical professionals. |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah, and it's more than just violence. |
| 1:15.7 | I mean, how else do trans people face numerous adversities in America? |
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