TransLash Presents: Private, Separate, and Unequal
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week on the TransLash Podcast, Imara shares the latest season of The Anti-Trans Hate Machine, TransLash Media’s investigative series. In this final episode, she and her team investigate how the anti-trans attacks on schools are part of a larger strategy to dismantle public education, and they’re being driven by the most powerful coalition on the right. Join Imara as she learns how the plan to privatize education is flourishing in Arizona and starting to gain momentum across the country. The ultimate goal: use vouchers to destroy public schools — a major pillar of democracy. But the outcome of these efforts is far from a foregone conclusion.
The interviews with Tami Staas and Marisol Garcia in this episode were conducted before the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey fam, it's me, Amara. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome to the third and the last of this season's episodes of the anti-trans hate machine. |
| 0:15.8 | So far, we've taken you to Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Sarasota, Florida to reveal |
| 0:22.6 | how anti-trans hate is being used to destroy public schools and how communities are fighting |
| 0:27.7 | back, because they understand that the 13,000 school districts and the schools that are in them |
| 0:34.5 | represent a key pillar of democracy. |
| 0:39.5 | But today, we're going to go deep into the machine that's behind it all, focusing on the movers and the shakers of this movement. |
| 0:45.9 | And this movement has been decades in the making. Now, overall, this is some of the most |
| 0:51.6 | critical journalism that we've done here at TransLash Media, |
| 0:59.0 | because we're focusing on the part of the destruction of democracy that's from the ground up when everyone else is focused on it from the top down. |
| 1:03.0 | So I really hope that you will hang in there with us as we've done in the previous two episodes. |
| 1:08.7 | And as I've told you before, if you don't want to wait for the anti-trans hate machine |
| 1:12.7 | to drop here in the trans-lash podcast, |
| 1:15.7 | go over right now and subscribe to the anti-trans hate machine podcast channel |
| 1:20.1 | and you'll be able to get everything that we're putting out there |
| 1:23.1 | right away and without delay. |
| 1:25.8 | Okay, let's get into this final episode of the anti-trans hate machine, |
| 1:30.7 | season four, the destruction of public education. |
| 1:42.8 | It's late 2022. A group of students gather in an auditorium at Hillsdale College. It's a small |
| 1:51.0 | Christian conservative school in Michigan. They're here to listen to a speech from a big right-wing |
| 1:57.9 | activist, Chris Rufo. He's one of the most influential political strategist on the right |
| 2:03.9 | and has a lot to say about reshaping public education. |
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