1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I don't go to Stephane. 2 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 1: Never told you, but actually I heart rate you. So 3 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 1: for this Monday Many, we wanted to put a date 4 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: on it, which I actually think we should start doing 5 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: pretty often because things change pretty quickly. It's true something's change, 6 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: but not all the things. There's so many cyclical things 7 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: that I keep looking at, like new posts or new articles, 8 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 1: and I'm like, didn't we talk about this five years ago? 9 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: Why are we still talking about this? So, yes, things change, 10 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: but not the whole thing. Time is a flat circle. 11 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: You're really embodying Matthew McConaughey right now. I'm just saying 12 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: there's a lot of good and bad that's happening, and 13 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:06,320 Speaker 1: I feel like we're just going in the same cycles. Well, 14 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: I know I've shared the story before, but my AP 15 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: World history teacher used to say time is like a slinky, 16 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 1: where it's always in circles, but slightly moving ahead with 17 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 1: every iteration. Slinkies also tangle up and just go into 18 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: a giant ball. I feel like we're really showcasing our 19 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: personal outlooks somethings perhaps, But what is today's date and 20 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: what is it is? June twenty three one. So as 21 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: we're coming to the end of Pride Month, we thought 22 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: we would look at some anti lgbt Q plus legislation 23 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: in the US around the world. So trigger warning if 24 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: we're not going to get into Danny thing. I don't 25 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: want to say too upsetting, but but just like if 26 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: you really don't want to hear this right now, that's 27 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: a good thing about Yes, and these are definitely things 28 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: that we want to keep an eye on. Uh. And 29 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: it's something that's been making international headlines recently when Hungary 30 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: announced earlier in June that they were prohibiting queer entertainment 31 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 1: and content for young people. This law passed on fifty 32 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: seven to one in Hungary's National Assembly. It was framed 33 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: as a way to combat pedophilia. Thousands protested in response 34 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: to the proposed and later passed bill. So we recently 35 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: discussed the wave of proposed legislations against transgender people and 36 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 1: specifically transgender youths when it comes to things like participating 37 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: in sports, locker room use and things such as that. 38 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: And again, these are things we continue to see and 39 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: which is why I'm like, why are we talking about 40 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: this still? Right? Yes? Um? And There are currently hundreds 41 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: of bills that have been filed on the US restricting 42 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: LGBTQ plus rights across the United States, making this potentially 43 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: the worst year for lgbt Q plus rights since when 44 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: fifteen bills were made into law. We're only halfway through 45 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: the year and eight have been enacted into law and 46 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,399 Speaker 1: ten are just one signature away. Most of the eight 47 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: that have been made into law have been specifically focused 48 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: on transgender minors. So Alabama, Timasee, Msissippi in Arkansas have 49 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: put laws into place preventing trans use from participating in 50 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: school sports on teams that match their gender identity. In 51 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: South Dakota to executive orders prohibit trans girls from being 52 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: a part of girls sports teams, and experts say that 53 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: the states recently signed religious freedom bill will allow for 54 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: discrimination against the queer community. So Arkansas recently enacted a 55 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: law that gives doctors the right to refuse treatment based 56 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: on their morals or religion, and a law banning transition 57 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: treatment options for miners goes into effect soon. Another bill 58 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: in North Dakota could allow for student groups that receive 59 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: any state funding to refuse entry to trans use based 60 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: on free speech. Yeah, some Other laws prevent changing the 61 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: gender markers on birth certificates until the person seeking to 62 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: do so has undergone gender affirming surgery. Others would require 63 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: a guardian signature for any proposed content around sexual identity 64 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: and orientation in the school curriculum. Another in Tennessee proposes 65 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: to ensure that students have access to quote reasonable accommodations 66 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 1: if they don't want to share restoring with trans students. 67 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: Texas and Tennessee have the most anti lgpd Q plus 68 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 1: legislation on the table this year so far. So some 69 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 1: of these bills have been vetoed often things to the efforts. 70 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: And when we say efforts, we meant fights, we mean 71 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: real fights. They're fighting real hard of activists and advocates 72 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: to fight discrimination and misinformation. And it's worth noting that 73 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: a recent poll found two thirds of Americans were against 74 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: these bills targeting trans people. But this push is obviously 75 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: very concerning, uh, and not to mention how harmful that 76 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 1: these are and who they impact. And it's not just 77 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 1: the trans community. Is affecting the trans community pointedly obviously, 78 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: but it harms everyone. Just again, like this is not 79 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 1: just about one group of people, and it's not just 80 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: about one community. This is hurting the whole. I just 81 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: feel like that needs to be said. And they're contributing 82 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: to a wave of anti trans violence, specifically in a 83 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: year that has already seen at least fifteen murders, and 84 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,599 Speaker 1: the numbers keep increasing, the attacks keep increasing, and it's 85 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: very very alarming and really sad. And I hate that 86 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: we're still talking about this. I hate that after a 87 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 1: small amount of time that we got to celebrate with 88 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: our trans community and the people in that community, that 89 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: we're back to where one it feels like, yeah, yeah, 90 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: it's it's very exhausting and frustrating and just infuriating because 91 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 1: to me, and I would imagine to most of ours, 92 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: probably all of our audience, it feels not only hateful, 93 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: but a waste of time of like why right? Why prevent? 94 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: Why uphold this binary and then prevent people from participating 95 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: in sports and like sports for children, like what right? 96 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 1: To the point that it becomes harmful. When we talk 97 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: about doing the general confirming test types of things biology 98 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: testing on UH and checking for genitalia essentially on younger kids, 99 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: I cannot imagine the trauma of being even told let's 100 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: talk about the overall fight for any young person adult 101 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,039 Speaker 1: being like, I need to check you out point blank, 102 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: what the hell are you kidding me? Like, that's in 103 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: itself a conversation of why. And then a majority of 104 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: the times when these bills are even in conversation or 105 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: even being presented, and the counters, can you name one area, 106 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: one school, one city where this has been an issue? 107 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 1: And they couldn't. They couldn't, It's not been an issue. 108 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: Their fearmongering to discriminate ahead of time. I just can't. 109 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: I just can't. And the level of permission that they're 110 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: giving to the outside beyond the government of eliciting this 111 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: type of fearmongering among the community and causing havoc and 112 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: causing violence and causing deaths because of this type of attitude. Yeah, indeed, 113 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 1: and there have been you know, we were focusing mostly 114 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: on the negative in this episode, but there have been 115 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: some positives for sure, And we've been touching on some 116 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: of the people making that possible and fighting for it 117 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: and in women around the world, for instance, and that's 118 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: just so inspiring. But yeah, these are things, these are 119 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: very concerned and we need to keep or eye on 120 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: them and not let these things happen under our our 121 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: watch right and speaking of good things, uh, definitely having 122 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: the first openly trans competitor at Olympics. Laurel Hubbard from 123 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 1: New Zealand will be competing as the first trans competitor. 124 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: So good luck and we're excited to see you. Yes. Yeah, 125 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: And if there are any other examples people we should highlight, 126 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: laws we should highlight. Please, I'll let us know. 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