Erin Reed Reports from the Trans Wars

Erin Reed Reports from the Trans Wars

Author: Overnight Productions, Inc. February 4, 2025 Duration: 28:58
Transgender journalist Erin Reed is a respected independent voice with a large following on social media. She met with a group trans people and allies to review the growing list of anti-trans executive orders coming out of the Trump White House (produced by David Hunt). And in NewsWrap: gender-affirming healthcare for Australia’s trans and gender-diverse young people is under review, U.S. President Donald Trump “has blood on his hands” after a blitz of anti-transgender executive orders, the Human Rights Campaign and Lambda Legal take on Trump’s new ban on service in the U.S. military by transgender and gender-diverse enlistees, the U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear LGBTQ-related children’s stories that offend some Maryland parents’ religious beliefs, Minnesota’s Twin Cities Pride receives double the amount of major donor Target Stores’ contribution when it parts ways with the retailer that’s abandoning DEI policies, Costo shareholders reject a right-wing sponsored bid to dump its inclusivity initiatives, and more international LGBTQ+ news reported this week by Joe Boehnlein and Tanya Kane-Parry (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the February 3, 2025 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

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