TransLash Presents: Moms Insurrectionists, and Hate in Education
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week on the TransLash Podcast, Imara shares Season 4 of The Anti-Trans Hate Machine, TransLash Media’s investigative series about the surge of anti-trans attacks in education and how it’s part of a strategy to upend democracy. In this second episode, Imara travels to Florida, ground zero for the modern anti-trans movement in schools. Join her as she travels to the belly of the beast, exploring the origin and spread of Moms for Liberty, a so-called parental rights group weaponizing anti-trans hate. In this episode, Imara uncovers how the anti-trans movement in schools is directly tied to the January 6 insurrection, revealing a fringe conspiracy theory fueling these efforts by casting trans people as an existential threat to America.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, it's me, Mara. Welcome to the TransLash podcast, a show where we tell |
| 0:12.0 | trans stories to save trans lives. Well, as you know, we're doing something a little different |
| 0:17.3 | this week on the TransLash podcast. Yesterday, we dropped the first episode of our investigative series, |
| 0:23.0 | The Anti-Trans Hate Machine. |
| 0:24.5 | And today, we're sharing episode two of this new season. |
| 0:28.8 | It's actually season four of this series, if you can believe it. |
| 0:32.5 | Now, this season is about the far-right plot to use anti-trans hate |
| 0:36.4 | in order to erode trust in public education |
| 0:38.9 | and, as a result, to unravel democracy. |
| 0:42.6 | Now, I don't want to give away too much, so let's just say that your jaw is probably going to be on the floor by the end of this episode. |
| 0:51.5 | Now, this new season of anti-trans hate machine actually dropped on the anti-trans |
| 0:56.1 | hate machine podcast channel last month. So moving forward, if you don't want to have to wait |
| 1:02.0 | to hear the things that we're putting out there, then go right now and subscribe to the anti-trans hate |
| 1:08.1 | machine wherever you listen to this podcast. |
| 1:13.4 | All right, with that, let's get into this episode. |
| 1:27.9 | I have been a part of Sarasota County's schools my whole life, having attended Ashner Elementary and Sarasota Middle School. |
| 1:29.6 | It's after 9 p.m. on a school night, and I'm sitting in a school board meeting in Sarasota, |
| 1:34.7 | Florida that's been going on for three hours. |
| 1:38.9 | Usually you have to register. |
| 1:40.5 | She's on the list. |
| 1:41.8 | Now, this meeting has the regular TDM that you would expect, like kids being recognized for their academic and athletic achievements and discussions about staff changes across the district. |
| 1:55.0 | It's pretty dull, to be totally honest. |
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