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Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur.

Here's what's coming up. We are being sold a story of transgender people as a group to fear when the reality is, is that we are a group that is almost nowhere impacting other people's lives and we're just trying to live our own lives.

Trump targets trans people. I speak to activist Chase Strangio about pushing back against the president.

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We're trying to express ourselves as human beings.

Like everybody else, we don't want to be different, but the journey is ours.

Partners in Art and in Life, the inimitable Gilbert Gilbert and George give us an up-close

look at their weird and wonderful world plus they believe that America was founded as a

Christian nation and should be a Christian nation and so there is a sort of less interest

in reaching out to to non-Christians.

Anti-Semitism, Christian nationalism, and the Republican Party.

Reporter Tom Jelton tells Michelle Martin about this dangerous intersection of religion and politics. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Biona Gola-Driga in New York, sitting in for Christiana Amonpour.

Donald Trump came back into office nearly a year ago, determined to change the face of America,

undoing a slew of Biden's policies and approaches to issues, including trans rights.

The U.S. President has made no secret of his lack of sympathy for trans people,

vilifying the small population and calling into question their very existence.

Transgender for all is a great, great thing for the Democrats to be talking about.

Transgender for every member in your family.

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