Trans People are Facing a 'Dual State' in Trump's America
3/25/202625 min
This week, the Idaho Senate is considering a bill that would block transgender people from using public bathrooms that conform with their gender identity, escalating the state’s preexisting trans bathroom ban in public schools. A first offense could land someone in prison for a year. This bill is just the latest in a devastating cascade of legal actions stripping away trans rights. For the midweek pod, host Brooke Gladstone speaks with Alejandra Caraballo, a civil rights attorney and a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, about why she's been looking toward a legal framework invented in the wake of Nazi Germany called "the dual state" to better understand this moment.
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First 90 secondsMicah Loewinger· Host0:00
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Speaker 1· Soundbite0:56
Why? Because they're transgender A new Kansas law takes effect requiring transgender people to use public building bathrooms corresponding with their sex at birth.
Brooke Gladstone· Host1:06
It lets any citizens sue someone they think is trans for a thousand dollars if they violate that rule.
Micah Loewinger· Host1:12
In Tennessee- House Bill seven fifty-four would require clinics who perform gender transition surgeries to also perform detransition procedures.
Speaker 4· Soundbite1:20
It would also require clinics and insurance companies to report the occurrence of these procedures to the Tennessee Department of Health, who would then record various statistics into a database.
Micah Loewinger· Host1:29
And