Hey fam, it's me, Amara.

Welcome to the TransLash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives.

Well, this week on this podcast, we're going to do something a little different.

I'm going to share with you the latest season of the anti-trans hate machine over the next three

days.

It's some of the most crucial reporting that we've ever worked on.

Here at Translash, we've been investigating the surge of anti-trans attacks on school boards

for the past year.

And I've uncovered that these anti-trans attacks

are all in service to a larger goal, the end of public education as we know it, which is a dire

threat to democracy itself. Over the course of the next three episodes, I'll expose the strategies

and inner workings of this movement.

And I'll also bring you into communities that are fighting back and actually successfully preserving this critical pillar of our democracy.

Now, the anti-trans hate machine has its own podcasting channel,

and the series went up there last month.

So in the future, if you don't want to wait,

you can go right now and subscribe to the anti-trans hate machine itself. Okay, with that,

let's get into it. I'm sitting in the basement of a church where a group of queer youth have come together.

It's the Rainbow Room.

This is a place where young people can be themselves, and it's in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Even in this like super like suburban rural area, like where you can feel like safe, like leaving your door unlocked, I just didn't feel safe like being who I was.

I'm struck by the fact that while these kids can be themselves more than ever,

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