What’s The Power of Trans Joy? with Adri Pèrez and Chase Strangio of the ACLU

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Society & Culture, Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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As we count down to this year’s Trans Day of Visibility, there’s a lot to be thankful for: trans creativity, resilience, community. There’s also a lot on the line for trans people and those who love them. Adri Pèrez and Chase Strangio of the ACLU join Jonathan to discuss the importance of protecting trans rights, what attacks on the trans community say about state power, and what a coordinated resistance could look like. Adri Pèrez is the policy & advocacy strategist for the ACLU of Texas, where they lead LGBTQIA+ advocacy on the Sexuality & Gender Equality team. You can follow Adri on Instagram @adriperextx and on Twitter @AdriPerezTX. Chase Strangio is Deputy Director for Transgender Justice with the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project and a nationally recognized expert on transgender rights. You can follow Chase on Instagram and Twitter @chasestrangio. Join the conversation, and find out what former guests are up to, by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Love listening to Getting Curious? Now, you can also watch Getting Curious—on Netflix! Head to netflix.com/gettingcurious to dive in. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our associate producer is Zahra Crim. Our editor is Andrew Carson. Our socials are run and curated by Middle Seat Digital. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIN; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Getting Curious merch is available on PodSwag.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a gorgeous
0:04.4	conversation with a brilliant expert or two to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by Chase Strangio and Audrey Perez of the ACLU where I ask them,
0:15.8	what does Trans Joy look like? Audrey Perez is the policy and advocacy strategist for the ACLU
0:22.8	of Texas, where they lead LGBTQIA plus advocacy on the sexuality and gender equality team. Chase
0:30.5	Strangio is deputy director for Transgender Justice with the ACLU's LGBT and HIV Project and a
0:37.1	nationally recognized expert on transgender rights. Without further ado, this week's Getting
0:42.8	Curious. Welcome to Getting Curious. Okay, so we're diving straight in. So ew, I can't believe I
0:49.0	just said that straight in. We're diving in is what we're doing. First of all, welcome Chase,
0:54.1	welcome, Audrey. I'm so excited you to are here. This is a really big episode. It's a big week.
0:59.2	We have Trans Day Visibility this week, which we love. I think everyone knows what our community
1:04.6	is going through in terms of the challenges that we're facing. But what I would love to focus on
1:09.9	to kind of get started is some stories of Trans Joy and Trans resilience. And so Audrey, can you
1:16.2	start us off with just a gorgeous story of Trans resilience? Well, it's been a really hard month
1:22.8	in Texas. And I think folks have been feeling a lot of fear and these stories of joy and beautiful
1:29.2	moments that that we have shared have been interspersed between all of that because we have been
1:35.5	forced in some ways to come together to resist against these attacks in the state of Texas.
1:41.0	And it has resulted in a lot of protesting that has brought together trans people from Austin
1:47.6	and from all across Texas. People have driven in to come to the Capitol and to protest against
1:52.3	what is happening in Texas. And those moments are I think always really beautiful and really hard
1:58.0	to feel any sense of despair or hopelessness in the midst of it because you are standing amongst
2:04.7	hundreds of beautiful trans people and beautiful allies that are all there in community alongside you
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