In this episode of El Niño Speaks, José Niño sits down with Basil for a sharp, fast-moving breakdown of why the “trans question” isn’t a side show—it’s all about law, money, and managerial power.

They unpack how gender identity folded into the Civil Rights Act created a censorship bureaucracy and a patronage system that spans HR to universities, and why the right’s habit of critiquing excesses while accepting premises keeps the ruling class intact.

They also trace the media-market incentives behind “edgy, but allowed” takes, the Passage Press to Blaze pipelines, and how immigration debate gets rerouted into H-1B expansion and donor priorities.

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El Niño Speaks 186: The Trans Question, Civil Rights, and the Media-Market Machine