Eli Butler’s Transmasculine Joy

Eli Butler’s Transmasculine Joy

Author: Overnight Productions, Inc. March 4, 2025 Duration: 28:59
As the Trump administration erases the T and Q in LGBTQ from government websites and publications — even the signage outside the Stonewall National Monument — New York college student Eli Butler seeks to counter the hate of far-right politicians and media outlets by exploring the hidden history and the joy of transmasculine community building (interviewed by David Hunt). And in NewsWrap: two young men in the Indonesian province of Aceh are publicly beaten with a cane for having gay sex, British law does not recognize “nonbinary” as a gender according to the United Kingdom Court of Appeal, Iowa’s transgender people are no longer protected from discrimination, a federal judge rules that key provisions of Trump’s executive order targeting federal agencies and federally funded DEI programs in higher education and the private sector are “impermissibly vague,” a second Trump order to move transgender women in U.S. women’s prisons to men’s prisons is blocked, the U.S. Supreme Court lets Tennessee’s virtual ban on drag performances stand, the “reverse discrimination” case of a straight, white, cisgender woman is heard by the U.S. top court, and more international LGBTQ+ news reported this week by Ava Davis and Joe Boehnlein (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the March 3, 2025 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

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