Mia Wong

Yeah.

Ones with millions of dollars of budgets.

you know, apparently their higher-ups are too busy, you know, taking first-class flights and raking in nearly a million dollars a year while trans people can't find jobs, you know.

But, like, so I've never gotten the aversion because for a lot of us on the ground, for a lot of us who, you know, among the many, many, many trans people that are working class, that live outside some of the, like, you know, handful metropolis that we often get depicted as

exclusively living in fundamentalist violence you know to be and to be clear from plenty of like protestant evangelicals as well yeah never stopped it never stopped being a very serious and real threat their numbers have gone down since the 90s you know in the early 2000s yeah but it's never stopped being something you really have to have to account for whether it's institutional even if it's totally illegal they'll still do it like they did in california

Or literal like street violence, literally like people attacking you with weapons.

So I think that's definitely a factor in all this.

And I think it's a sad factor in why folks haven't heard about it.

And, you know, in some of the stuff I've talked about before on the show and elsewhere, I've mentioned that I think that whatever the intent behind it, the gay ink, as it were, the structure of, you know, these larger nonprofits, which you can send down to like the local and state level at some points,

And the culture from them that kind of is more status quo, more solution, kind of dictates a lot of, like, official, at least, queer and trans politics has been a disastrous failure.

And I think that's even, you know, even more apparent here.

This is, again, the largest, most draconian trans health care in the U.S.

It's already happened.

It's already in place.

And you will look in vain for any organizing from the institutions that are supposed to protect trans rights against it.

Yeah.

There aren't, like, big lawsuits being filed.

There's not, like, you know, exposés being run.

They have far more resources than our, you know, worker-run newsroom.

We do a lot with what we have.