Mia Wong

But TNN, as far as I know, is one of the only outlets, including queer and trans media, I won't say the only, but one of the only, that has done ongoing coverage on this, let alone in-depth, extensive, what are the roots of this, how did we get here kind of coverage.

I've done two articles on it.

And those were in December.

So a few weeks after it passed, we kind of went in detail on what it meant and the implications of which were and have proven to be pretty horrifying.

And also the Catholic Church has pretty horrific history as an institution.

While individual Catholics have a, as we'll get to, have a wide range of beliefs, including on trans rights.

The institution itself has always been highly abusive, highly reactionary, and incredibly opposed to our very existence.

And that just hasn't changed.

It's actually escalating.

And then we did one just last week that was on the actual impact.

Like, we talked to trans people around the country who'd encountered the impact of the bishop's ban, as I've heard a few folks call it, and I've called it a few times myself, and what it means for their lives on the ground.

So I guess there's two points we should hit immediately.

One is sort of how this happened and like how this band sort of came together and was voted on by like who.

And the second one is how many people this affects, because I think this is the point that's really been ignored, which is that like Catholic hospitals, it's not like they're running like 10 of these.

I mean, it would be bad if they were running 10 of these.

But this is a significant part of the entire U.S.

health care system.

Yes.

A massive part of it.

So I think that's very important to kind of touch on.