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May 2021
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How Employers Fail Trans Workers and Wha...

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Kate Davis talks to Gabriel Arkles, Senior Counsel at the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, about trans rights at work, healthcare disparities and his work on Aimee Stephens Supreme Court case last summer. Produced by Joshua Christensen 
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