Trump Declares War On Trans Service Members
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🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Thousands of trans people serving in the armed forces are worried that their careers are in real peril after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that could ban them from the military. Army veteran Laila Ireland tells us about her experience as a trans service member and what she’s doing to fight back.
And in headlines: Trump signed an order imposing tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China, The Department of Justice fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Panama.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, February 3rd. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day. |
| 0:06.0 | The show where February is Black History Month, because it is. |
| 0:10.1 | And today we're thinking about the men and women who served in segregated units during the First and Second World Wars. |
| 0:15.5 | People like Sergeant Henry Johnson, or my grandfather, Oscar Koston, who fought on D-Day as part of the 320th Balloon Barrage Battalion. |
| 0:27.7 | On today's show, the Trump administration continues to fire federal workers across agencies. |
| 0:33.0 | And President Donald Trump flings us into a trade fiasco with our neighboring allies. |
| 0:37.8 | But let's start with the Trump administration's war on transgender Americans. |
| 0:41.8 | Since inauguration day, President Donald Trump has decided that one of America's biggest problems |
| 0:45.8 | isn't high prices, or lack of access to health care. |
| 0:49.4 | No, it's trans people, doing stuff, from being kids to serving our country. |
| 0:56.2 | That's the only way I can explain the Trump administration going after transgender folks at every stage of life. One executive order |
| 1:01.1 | was aimed at discouraging schools and teachers from supporting transgender youth. |
| 1:05.1 | My Department of Education will inform states and school districts that if any teacher or |
| 1:10.6 | school official suggests to a child |
| 1:13.4 | that they could be trapped in the wrong body, they will be faced with severe consequences, |
| 1:18.9 | including potential civil rights violations for sex discrimination and the elimination of federal |
| 1:25.2 | funding. |
| 1:26.2 | Another executive order, he signed, declaring that there are only two genders. |
| 1:30.6 | Apparently, this was so important that Trump also made sure to mention it in his inauguration |
| 1:35.0 | speech. |
| 1:36.0 | As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that |
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