logo
episode-header-image
Feb 2023
28m 8s

Transgender Youth Care Targeted

bloomberg
About this episode

Sasha Buchert, senior attorney at Lambda Legal, discusses lawmakers in more than two dozen states weighing legislation that aims to restrict or ban access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, prompting legal challenges from LGBTQ rights groups that allege the bills are discriminatory.
James Shreve, a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP, discusses the Illinois Supreme Court ruling that claims under the Biometric Information Privacy Act, accrue at each violation, opening up businesses to massive damages.
June Grasso hosts.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Up next
Yesterday
Lindsay Clancy Jury Deadlocked & California Slayer Law
Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the deadlocked jury in the trial of Lindsay Clancy for the murder of her three children. Then trusts and estates litigator Robert Harper, a partner at Farrell Fritz, discusses a trustee blocking Ni ... Show More
38m 2s
Yesterday
School Can Order Removal of Pride Flags From Classrooms
First Amendment expert Timothy Zick, a professor at William & Mary Law School, discusses a federal appeals court ruling that a school district in Long Island, NY did not violate three teachers’ First Amendment rights to free speech when it ordered the removal of pride flags and s ... Show More
20m 59s
Sep 2
Trump's Ballroom, US Attorneys & Kalshi Loses
Traci Feit Love, founder and executive director of Lawyers for Good Government, discusses the implications of the Supreme Court allowing President Trump to continue building his White House ballroom. Anne Joseph O’Connell, a professor at Stanford Law School, discusses two federal ... Show More
35m 54s
Recommended Episodes
Apr 2023
Trans Americans Face Patchwork Of Differing Laws
As many Republican-led states pass legislation restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors and adults, both the Biden administration and the Supreme Court have begun to weigh in. We look at the current state of affairs in Utah, which passed a law on the topic earlier ... Show More
12m 36s
Apr 2024
Pediatricians on the Frontlines of Gender-Affirming Care
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that Idaho could temporarily enforce a law that would ban providing gender-affirming care to minors. That means doctors who administer puberty blocking-drugs, hormone therapy, and perform certain surgeries could face up to 10 years in prison. It ... Show More
34m 13s
Apr 2021
"Over-Broad" & "Extreme"
Amid the fallout over Georgia's new sweeping elections law, Texas Democrats and voting rights activists are strategizing how to get some of the state's biggest employers to apply political pressure on lawmakers weighing restrictive voting bills in the Lone Star State. Plus, Gover ... Show More
35m 12s
May 2021
How Employers Fail Trans Workers and What Can Be Done
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 
34m 33s
Aug 2024
How Anti-Trans Laws Hurt Everyone
As we've been covering on the show for a while now, Republican-led states across the country are attacking trans communities by banning or attempting to ban everything from life-saving healthcare to sports participation for school-aged youth. In South Carolina Thursday, a trans m ... Show More
17m 46s
Dec 2024
The Supreme Court Takes On Transgender Care for Minors
<p>On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard a major case on the rights of transgender children that could help uphold or dismantle dozens of laws across the country.</p><p>Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The Times, explains how the questioning played out and how the ju ... Show More
35m 16s
Dec 2024
United States v. Skrmetti and the Future of Trans Rights
<p>A new Supreme Court case, United States v. Skrmetti, will challenge Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1, which prohibits gender-affirming care for transgender minors. <b>Katelyn Burns</b>, columnist for MSNBC, first ever openly trans Capitol Hill Reporter, co-host of the podcast Cancel ... Show More
40m 32s
Mar 2023
Masha Gessen on the Battle Over Trans Rights
<p><span>Many culture-war politicians are attacking the rights of trans people, and making a regressive view of gender as biology the key to their platforms. In this episode, David Remnick talks to two people who’ve found themselves at the center of the battle over transgender ri ... Show More
49m 30s