The Anti-Trans Agenda (w/ Gillian Branstetter)

Matt and Sam talk to Gillian Branstetter , press secretary for the National Women’s Law Center, about the spate of anti-trans laws sweeping the country: What do these interventions do? Who is pushing them? And why? The American right has long been invested in policing gender boundaries, but its fixation on trans people — and trans children, in particular — has become more acute in recent years. Over 100 anti-trans state-level measures have been passed this legislative session alone, including athletics bans, curriculum/book bans, religious refusal laws, and bans on access to health care. Perhaps most alarmingly, states like Texas are instituting policies that equate gender-affirming care with child abuse, terrorizing trans kids and their families. With Gillian's help, we explore the conservative forces behind these bills and reveal the ideological fixations, misapprehensions, and contradictions driving this panic. It's a difficult but necessary conversation. If you'd like to help fight the right's anti-trans onslaught, consider donating to The Trans Justice Funding Project . Further Reading: J David Goodman, " How Medical Care for Trans Youth Became ‘Child Abuse’ In Texas ," NY Tim…