Policy Chats Amanda Goad: LGBTQ+ and Transgender Policies & Protections
In this episode, Audrey Irmas Director of the LGBTQ, Gender & Reproductive Justice Project at the ACLU of Southern California Amanda Goad talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about transgender rights in California and the country.
About Amanda Goad:
Amanda is the Audrey Irmas Director of the LGBTQ, Gender & Reproductive Justice Project at the ACLU of Southern California. Amanda was previously a staff attorney in the LGBT & HIV Project of the National ACLU. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network.
Learn more about Amanda Goad via https://www.aclusocal.org/en/Amanda-goad
Podcast Highlights:
“Even as we're focused on implementation and making things even better in California, the trans rights movement at a national level is still unfortunately having to play a lot of defense.”
- Amanda Goad on the topic of California paving the path for the trans rights movement.
Guest:
Amanda Goad (Audrey Irmas Director of the LGBTQ, Gender & Reproductive Justice Project at the ACLU of Southern California)
Interviewers:
Maddie Bunting (UCR Public Policy Major, Dean’s Chief Ambassador)
Daisy Gonzalez (UCR Public Policy Major, Dean’s Ambassador)
Music by:
C Codaine
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/motif-remix/imagery
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/Minimal_1625
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/Phase
Commercial Links:
The Role of Public Policy in Challenging Times: An Introduction to APPAM
California Policy Links:
AB-2218 Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund
AB-1266 Pupil rights: sex-segregated school programs and activities
Transgender Organization/Agenda Links:
The Trans Agenda for Liberation
This is a production of the UCR School of Public Policy: https://spp.ucr.edu/
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