Hi, Pam, welcome to the Translash podcast, the show where we look at news and culture from a trans perspective.

I'm your host, Amara Jones.

And today, we're coming to you with a special bonus election episode so that we can unpack

and better understand what happened and what's ahead. I hesitate because I don't know if we will

be able to better understand what happened. I'm on the edge of my seat, of course, like all of you,

and I'm waiting to see how this plays out. That's why I'm delighted to have a

conversation today with Caitlin Burns, and it will be a conversation. And it's no surprise that I

would want to talk to her. She is the first out trans reporter that covered the U.S. Congress,

formerly a political writer at Vox.

Caitlin is now a freelance journalist who has written for The Washington Post,

Teen Vogue, Vice, and many, many more.

She's joining me on Wednesday morning.

This episode is going to drop on Thursday, but according to all the reports,

what we talk about is still going to be highly,

highly relevant.

Caitlin, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, well, there's no shortage of things to talk about.

I'm really glad to be talking to you specifically as a congressional reporter because I think it's a really relevant background for what we're going to talk about today.

Here's why.

Everyone's in a panic or, you know, turned upside down by the election result last night in which

Donald Trump and Joe Biden are not the clear winner,

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