Slate News The Waves: The GOP’s All-Out Assault on Trans People
On this week’s episode of The Waves, we’re talking Texas. Slate community manager Evan Urquhart and author and co-host of Slate’s Outward podcast Jules Gill-Peterson dig into the Texas governor’s directive to treat gender-affirming health care for transgender youth as child abuse. In the first half of the show, they explore what’s going on in Texas and the harm it’s already causing. Later they talk about how the problem in Texas is symptomatic of a much bigger trans obsession by the GOP.
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Recommendations:
Evan: Do your research
“Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care”
Jules: Support on the ground organizations in Texas and contacting lawmakers to demand they support trans kids.
Campaign For Southern Equality
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Shannon Palus and June Thomas.
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