Last week, I had a chance to chat with The Daily Show’s Roy Wood, Jr. and the ACLU’s Chase Strangio about the state of trans rights in the U.S. — the Republican-led attacks on trans people, the relative Democratic silence on the issue — and just reflecting a bit on the time we live in.

You can watch the interview here:

You can also listen to it as a podcast wherever you normally get your podcasts:

If that’s of interest to you, please check out some of these recent articles I’ve written about trans issues:

Most recently, I covered the way right-wing groups are targeting Pride Month events:

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The anti-LGBTQ right is going to get people killed

On Saturday, 31 people affiliated with Patriot Front, a right-wing white nationalist group, were arrested en route to an LGBTQ Pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The organization had apparently planned to crash Coeur d’Alene’s annual “Pride in the Park” event, a family-friendly LGBTQ get-together put on by the North Idaho Pride Alliance…

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And before that, about how Republicans tried to blame trans people for the Uvalde mass shooting (even thought trans people had nothing to do with it):

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Just like they did in 2015, Republicans are falsely blaming trans people for a mass shooting

On November 27, 2015, armed with a semi-automatic rifle, Robert Lewis Dear Jr. walked into a Colorado Springs, Colorado, Planned Parenthood clinic. There, Dear shot and killed three people and injured nine others. “No more baby parts,” Dear told police after his arrest…

20 days ago · 40 likes · 4 comments · Parker Molloy

National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman Rick Scott released a plan for what the party will do if they retake control of the government, and it basically amounts to exclusion of trans people from society.

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