For pride month, the girlies mount a defense against one of the largest threats to queer people today: transphobia. They trace the long history of trans existence and its erasure, unpack how moral panic is used to justify control, why transphobia exists on both the right and the left, and how the freedom to live outside the binary can liberate us from other systems of oppression. Digressions include: the highs and lows of plant parenthood, our no-phone summer so far, and a new candy shaking up the scene.

This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza McLamb and edited by Livi Burdette. Research assistance from Kylie Finnigan.

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RESOURCES:

https://transharmreduction.org/

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

https://translifeline.org/

https://transequality.org/

https://transgenderlawcenter.org

https://pflag.org/get-support/

https://transreads.org/

https://www.elevatedaccess.org/

https://www.pointofpride.org/resource-library

SOURCES:

2025 anti-trans bills tracker

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Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

Forensic Assessment of the Self-Defense Claim

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