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What Next | Trans and Shut Out in Trump’s America

What Next | Trans and Shut Out in Trump’s America

Update: 2025-07-29
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Trans rights and access to health care have been under attack on the state level for years, but the second Trump administration and the Supreme Court have accelerated a chilling effect at clinics across the country.


Guest: Grace Byron, author of “The Grim State of Trans Health Care” and “The Bureaucratic Nightmares of Being Trans Under Trump” for the New Yorker. 


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Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.



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What Next | Trans and Shut Out in Trump’s America

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