Susan Stryker: Trump's War on Transgender People, A Historian's View

Apr 26, 2025
44 mins

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Why is the world so threatened by the existence of trans people? Historian Susan Stryker joins us to break it all down. She talks about how she's thinking about the onslaught of attacks targeting the trans community, her time with the activist group Transgender Nation, and why she views transness as "a practice of freedom". 

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