I recently got to talk to my old friend Bob Lederer about the current attacks on trans people coming from new Trump administration. You can listen to the interview here.
In our first segment, Out-FM’s Bob Lederer interviews prominent trans liberation fighter Dean Spade about the larger nefarious logic behind Trump’s anti-trans attacks, and the important principles to follow when mounting resistance to them. This includes the anticipatory obedience of several hospitals which have discontinued gender-affirming care for young people — even before any binding federal rules have forbidden that. Fortunately, as he notes, mass protests for these actions have already occurred at the New York and DC hospitals in question. In Part 2, we discussed some of the themes of his new book, Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together. In particular, we talked about the ways of building lasting social-change organizations based on a commitment to respectfully and lovingly working through differences, while we all stay focused on our common goals. Then we invited listener calls.