how this will be a boost to the expansion of medicaid and now it will affect people we got a mixed federal ruling on using sex discrimination laws in gay cases  and bills in montana virginia and oklahoma have been drilled which is a good thing you know we're going to update you i was at orlando this past weekend and we're going to update you on the pulse club the scene of that l g b t massacre  this past year meanwhile in australia they gave rodeo cowboy has stood up to anti guy anti guy and his words have gone viral and i'm going to give you my review  don and their ad and we're going to talk about we'll talk a little bit about the movies in the comics yes our resident movie critic chris cooper all right well we do that and by the way this friday is we're go celebrate mark international transgender day of visibility on friday the activities all over the country so we start with what president trump has done this week that there is a there are federal orders for complying with civil rights and they're basically saying you don't have to report on how you whether you've had instances of l g b t q discrimination at this point right i mean this is this is about the rules that exile their cutting the reporting requirement exactly those it's important to make the distinction though knows that executive order is still in effect but what's happening is that basically the enforcement ability has largely been gutted because there used to be a provision that required those companies to report three years worth of compliance yes but not just with the l g b t provisions but also with the nondiscrimination on the basis of race and on the  said ok well you don't have to now prove that you've been complying with these rules for three years in order to get the federal contracts the big federal contracts and what did what it essentially does is it sort of been counted officially is in terms of our relationships a little bit right if you had if you had a partner or more recently a spouse but of course that was not true anywhere in the country in tw question on the census this time we were building up to that and it's not going to happen it's not going to happen to the drop of a strange no in fact apparently the census bureau mistakenly published something that indicated suggested that they were going to have a it's an ongoing process and that leads us into a discussion of well actually let's talk about some of the other harz that get this the trouble is administration has selected to head the  health and human services civil rights office a famous anti transgender activist this guy's name is rick roger severino he's a longtime opponent of transgender  equality he rare in the device center for religion and civil society at the anti gay heritage foundation and he's long opposed equal treatment for transgender people in health care it looks very service access to public services he called transgender inclusive nondiscrimination protections a radical social experiment and he's heading the civil rights division of the justices how much contempt they have people in general  to complying for three years with the various regulations for nondiscrimination is a good example of under the guise of we want to free business from regulation that's choking innovation  removing protections that actually make people's lives better bigotry such an innovation that's what they're that's what they're opting for it's about making america wait again and one then there's the gorsuch  a tremendous threat to civil liberties to the voting rights to l g b t rights to everything and his hearings concluded the human rights campaign sent to a trans woman sour below to testify against his nomination and she said we need a justice who recognizes our basic equality and our shared humanity judge gorsuch has never met this bar so chuck schumer says the head of the democrats of the senate we're going to fil buster this i think that they could get the votes for a filibuster and then the the republicans seem bent on changing the rules which they're entitled to do to no longer have filibusters on supreme court nomination meaning you only have to get a majority vote which is already true for federal judges and cabinet appointments which the democrats changed to get obama's appointees through so that's what it looks and then there's the there's just a question whether there are enough republicans to get rid of rule now on the other side of the coin there are actually some right wing outlets that are concerned about the course it's nomination now because of what he said in the hearings which is that found that ruling in the decision they said you can't have laws against consensual sodomy well that involves them reversing a precedent that they've already established which they can do boys but they don't even have to go that far if these right wing outlets were actually listening to what course said he said settled law but he wouldn't say more and the reason why he wouldn't say more is because he said there are cases that may come before the court court where we will have to decide on the nuances well this is the client etc etc and i'm going to talk about that yeah in other words restaurant these religious freedom restoration act and various other exceptions where you know they supreme court justice may actually decide oh well yes you can get married but someone so doesn't have to honor it because of their religious beliefs but then some states don't want to honor it in terms of even giving benefits to same sex marriage couples they say you're married but you know we don't have to give you better fits because essentially we're allowed to discriminate against gay people because we don't have laws protecting gay people in our state like texas and places like this so that's that's the kind of thing he's talking about that may come before the court is this kind of discrimination illegal so don't be full now don't be fooled it would be great to stop this guy i mean though i'm sure  they have a long list of people from the federalist society who they're going to pick from who they're all dedicated to the same thing but we get along with eight justices i think is this been pointed out the original court was six i think i week refused to condemn the murder of a black man in new york by a white supremacist who drove up to new york city specifically to just look for a black man to kill him and we just we have all over the news he had plenty of black people to kill in baltimore where he's from yet he wanted to do a new do it in new york city because he figured he'd get more media attention that way so the lovely sean spicer the spokesperson for the president was asked about this and he said i don't have the details now this was one of the this was a national news story that the because it was such an egregious thing and this administration is not inclined on its own to look at elements of bigotry because that's his base and condemned i don't know because if he were pressed he's going to say of course it's a terrible thing but they don't go out of their way to say folks you know a lot of you since my election is never going to say this but that's what's happened feel emboldened to commit acts of bigotry i don't disagree with with anything you said and even though i don't feel like the president necessarily has to weigh in on every crazy who does a crazy act because there are so many and you know and then there on the basis of so many different objectionable horrible things well you know if it's something like pulse or something like newtown well or something like the folks in that church in the black church you got blown away by a lunatic you know those are mass murders of such an ethnic incident on the subway where this this thuggish guy was yelling at some rainy and people and you know calling them names and things in the daily news wrote this up and followed them out of the train and it was being very threatening and they have a video on it  know so maybe they'll maybe they'll catch this guy because he was he was really threatening to these people but the daily news didn't mention although it's on the tape that he also calls them mad and calling about a call and it's the same the same thing as what you are you know but it the the judgment on this is that this was a big boost for medicaid and i was kind of shocked to read that now the number of people on medicaid because of the medicaid expansion under obamacare is now more than the old people on medicare which is pretty startling and apparently i was reading something in the times about how it was the flexing of that muscle that actually helped to derail the republican efforts to repeal a lot of these people again or trump's base their their their on their you know the out medicaid all those all those opioids stuff that everybody claims to be so concerned about including trump right you know they keep talking about it but if they get any treatment at all it's almost all on medicaid right now so this was a big also when you're talking about people with aids i mean absolutely essential but again folks as i'd like to remind you we're all going to be dependent on medicaid you can go on medicare when you're sixty five dollars but if you've got to go into a nursing home you end up on medicaid almost universally because you run out of your money and the state has to take care of you that's what happens well and he as you were saying you mentioned people think hiv and how they've been impacted by the affordable care act and it actually has brought thousands of low income people living with hiv allowed them to obtain health insurance through medicaid that they would not have been able to afford before fourteen million people would have lost their health care if the system repealed and passed and by tw and similarly on his big infrastructure plan you know he's you know a lot of conservative republicans about going to want to go into these big federal expenditures of course trump doesn't want to either he just wants to privately financed profitable projects that private companies could run to charge you more to drive and go across bridges that's not the way to do it if he wants to work with democrats it's got to be public funding of infrastructure and that's the only way they're going to go forward so now hopefully of the the democrats will hold the line and you know grow a pair finishing up on health care senator bernie sanders and a car somebody else in the house are going to introduce a single payer thing and that is where we have to head if we're going to solve the health care problem in america i wish i wish i wish why wish i mean it's what the rest of the world enjoys i know has look at the polling on the repeal bill that they put up you know they got seventeen percent approval on their plan clinton couldn't do it obama couldn't do what he did do something obama did something obamacare was you know a gift to the insurance companies it's a problem but it did cover a lot more people know i mean i'm not educating folks a big no because fox news and the koch brothers and all these right wingers they pay a lot of money to make you hate the government there are entrenched deeply entrenched interests that would put up such a fight yeah well let's i think we're ready for it after this i think this is woken us all up right i mean look what's happening in new york they're even going to put a resistance group several several resistance groups towards the front of the circuit which is the you know federal circuit in new york they've rejected sexual taishan discrimination claims by a gay man under title seven which is sex discrimination but they've revived his sex stereotyping now this is a very important case of this is a split decision and it was important because it's the st time that the nd circuit has ruled on this kind of sexual discrimination case of sexual orientation discrimination case since the trumpet ministration has flipped its approach to these cases the approach under obama was to try to make sure that sexual orientation was covered under sexual discrimination provisions and now trumps justice department is you know wasn't a chance of that right but this maintain his lawsuit on the claim that he was a victim of a lawful sex stereotyping by his employer you know i found this particularly interesting because his employer is also my name lawyer oh he well he works for a mas com is the company which is a huge multinational advertising agency which has companies you know like an octopus all over the globe he works for a different company obviously than i work for but i do work for a nominal back and i heard all about it and i was like good god what happened what happened what happened was because we're a medical education company and they wanted to change they wanted to do something cute to label the bathrooms so they did chromosomes because we're a medical education company a picture of chromosomes one for the y chromosome for the male and one for the x chromosome for the women's bathroom you know ok fine except that someone pointed out young woman named alexis in white there said you can't do this  far but don't give any ideas to the right one about blood tests before you go into the rest room well i have to say that the c e o because she spent a lot she thought this is a great idea and she had had someone draw these chromosomes and she's a she's  unstoppable force and she went charging to confront alexis that's up she got it confused and she confronted this young guy named alex gay guy who had just started working that week and she's late into it saying real i mean she wasn't yeah but she's like what do you mean what do you are you trying to do here what's a point you're trying to make and i give alex tremendous credit a young guy there less than a week faced by this unstoppable force of the c e o and he stood his ground and he said well i was the one who complained but actually yes she's right and this is why and he laid it out so good for our good for our i was it was in orlando this weekend and at the rose and center everything is the rose is centered around this guy owns we heard from him he's the guy who owns half the hotels at orland so you know i was walking out on the woman was walking out but that's the way it works and it was fine they're not all that way but they had one at least right next to our where we were beating it and of course they the other solution is to have single use restrooms that are not you know designated for any gender whatsoever as they do not have here in m and m well hey emmett and everybody else has single serve restrooms they're supposed to be judged or neutral now just gender neutral just call it a restroom whatever you wan call it but it shouldn't have men and women on it if it only serves one person that's been the law in new york city since january st so we have to get some been forced but going on this was a magician you know i go to joe and the restaurant all the time they've got five restrooms you know three for women too for men but they should all just be single serve a nato does lined up go to the next one all right anyhow so we go to the states now shot let's do can we start with north carolina if you like north carolina which is infamous for having passed h b two b two does a lot of terrible things it's called the bathroom wall but that it also bans locals undermines local civil rights laws it undermines local governments from even raising the minimum wage and i don't undermine two suing in state court for four of those very anti discrimination protection so it does a lot of horrible things but the when they used to pass it was the whole idea of transgender use of the wrong battle right then they get they were they were you know going against charlotte north carolina which passed a comprehensive law on civil rights that included gender identity and then try to repeal their whole law in an effort to get them to repeal h b two and then the right wing rag on the deal this was a couple of months ago so now the governor of the then governor it cost him his job that was one of the main one of the main reasons why he lost in the now governor the democrat cooper who tried to undo it and as you just mentioned the attempt to undo it failed but because they drew their own lines in the legislature they have made these right wing republicans have maintained a veto proof majority of the state legislature this is what we're going to be up against in twenty million one hundred and eighty two thousand and twenty as all these horrible lines that we have to wait on which can be done it can be done but then we've got to redraw the lines at least fairly if not to our favor well the thing about north carolina is they had no idea when they did this the storm of excrement that was going to head in their general direction and that storm the bill for that storm has as now been calculated by the associated press it will cost the state of north carolina because they have passed this bill and held onto it three billion seven hundred and sixty million dollars in lost business one billion with a b the be over a dozen years this is a horrible thing for north carolina but a wonderful thing in terms of a barrier warning to other states that are thinking about doing this we'll go through some of those we are going to go through these and they're also up again north carolina is also up against the deadline of the n c a a deciding on top of this for a couple of years out till two thousand and twenty two they're going to be deciding where these tournaments are going to be held and likely none of them will be in north carolina if h b t is still and well i mean they have put the right wing has put forth a new proposal but it also provides a broad license to discriminate against us even more than the indiana law that sparks such a national outcry sort of putting a super rich you know religious freedom act on top of their h b two and they're not going to get away with it repeal means repeal i mean even mike pence as governor of indiana who tried to defend his religious freedom act eventually had the legislature repeal it  they didn't put it to place which would have been nice protections for l g b t people in the law but they did repeal their law in order the indiana could move on because they were also under tremendous pressure now of course given the government we have in washington now right now we're going to have to have sanctions against the united states of america they're not going to be able to play the n c a a in the united states anymore well if there's one takeaway from h b two it's that anti gay doesn't pay it doesn't pay for it let's talk about some the situation of the united states where your passport it's still male or female other countries have added x as an alternate paul and a couple of other places have done this but we haven't done that in the united states meanwhile in tennessee hats off to the american civil liberties union and the l g b chamber of commerce for beating back for now anyway one of those bathroom bells that's the wedge that they're really having some success with the right wing is same gender partners but they they still don't want to recognize it and and stuff and if this goes through it could cost the state nine billion dollars not in boycotts but a loss of federal funds to things arkansas their house centering another bathroom six bill quote unquote an anti trans h b one hundred and ninety six it's progressed in their house and would make it a criminal for a transgender person to access a sex segregated space consistent with their gender identity can we give them a little good news for montana lawmakers have blocked it anti transgender ballot measure they defeated a statewide bal initiative that would have prohibited transgender individuals who are using the restroom that matches their gender identity just to be clear it didn't actually make it to the bed would have been a ballot measure and i think the legislature tours right blocked it  not like it was actually voted on of i wasn't voted on the beat by the people and then in south dakota business leaders are basically saying to their governor that you know you do not want to pass an anti you law they're considering there because we'll the problems it's going to cause because people are already saying some business leaders are already saying i'm not going to do any business in south dakota anymore you know high tech firms whatever they're not going to do it anti gay doesn't pay it oklahoma  gay people from discrimination it failed and a nd measure allowing businesses to discriminate against gay people was withdrawn after that so that's this oklahoma i know that's not a shooting well i mean you know i don't want to offend oklahoma but it's not what you think of when you think of you know politics right meanwhile in texas their house speaker a guy named joe strauss and spoken out against their s p six which is another anti transgender bell on the consideration of the bathroom bill and he says i oppose it i've never seen or heard about this issue until you are two ago count me as a know it is great when you have the leader of the legislature who has an awful lot of power to decide what comes up what gets voted on all those kinds of things be an ally i mean that doesn't mean he's an ally of he's pro l g b t ready thing but he doesn't want texas to deal with these kinds of boycotts and all this other kind of stuff  happened in indiana they see what's happening in north carolina and they're all like you know what we don't want to deal with this in tightly we lost a vote of the colorado states that are in this in military affairs committee they defeated the birth certificate modernization act which would have put it in line with federal policy for transgender people in colorado who want there to update their gender on their birth certificate so this is someplace that they don't seem to be willing to ran for the presidency and the st time around couldn't remember the name of the agencies he wanted to abolish you know actually that agency now under mr drum he said i want to get rid of three they mentioned complicated this department of energy it's like health care who knew it was so complicated but anyway so rick perry a former governor of texas now u s energy secretary took some time away from his duties guarding the national  nuclear stockpile to rail against the fact that an openly gay man had won the election for student president of the texas and m university and you guys have already talked about how he abi brooks won the presidential race out there he claims it was on technicalities and technically the the opponent robert mackintosh was disqualified for not providing receipts for the glow sticks that he used in his campaign video perry and talk to him in the light of all this but you forgot to mention that rick perry was a former e l leader at texas a and m i think he was like the chief cheerleader is a lot in common with they're urging lawmakers to reject the amendment to the adoption bill now there too i think we have people in the leadership who may scotch these anti gay things i'm not sure when we were at orlando this weekend we heard from kathy willard who was a former city council out lesbian city council president in atlanta she's running for mayor in atlanta so she thinks that some of this stuff can be also stopped by the governor governor nathan deal who was also like the head of the house and taxes doesn't want this stuff in georgia do you want to talk about our lawn do a little bit more thought we could go where we where we up to them yeah i mean you know  i did go but i want to have a couple of stories about the pulse there and if we can put this picture up we've made of everybody make sure you go to our land of these days you make a pilgrimage to the pulse and that's that's the the sign is still there it's still lit rather lightly there it's in a very busy business district it's not like some out of the way place but of course it's now surrounded by all kinds of  banners and things that you really can't see the black box there now i learned that the city of orlando offered two million five hundred thousand dollars to the owner of the place which is like a one million dollars over what the value of it is and she won't sell and there she's not also not talking but the story is that she wants to reopen it as a club the other thing is not take it take a look at that picture there there was a father and we were there a whole big a group and everything but there was a father and his little son there and he was taking the boy around to all the aspects of the memorial there they're looking at the pictures of the forty nine people who were murdered there in the largest single massacre in the history of the country on one day by one shooter and  he was patiently explaining everything that was going on i was removing just to watch it you know that he was explaining it was there so i would just like to see it grassed over and do you know be a place of  but as a club i just think i don't think i'd want to be dancing in a place that was the scene of such carnage as some people would say that would be a triumph of the spirit well yeah i mean the overcoming the argument would be  disabled and things like that working for you and you knew you knew it and you didn't do anything about him you just gave him got to work with i will take issue with one thing you just did and which is i wouldn't mention his name i would never mention his name you know that happened in orlando they had a panel on the pulse massacre and i don't know if i mentioned his name i just said what's the update on the killer what's the what is the these were reporters who had covered it in orlando and i said what the what is the final verdict on what was he up to what we know what happened all this kind of so i was just trying to get analysis and i was i was interrupted by the by the hostess and we don't want to talk about his name we don't want to talk about him well i think we do have to understand i think we do have to understand know who he was great and what happened i agree but i just i resist with every fiber of my being using these people's names i think they should be have their birth certificates revoked i think they should have their social referred to from then on but i just think you know especially the ones who are doing it because they think somehow they're going to grab some glory like this guy who came up from baltimore to do it in a couple and in new york specifically so we get the maximum of amount of media attention i hardly think it leaves us that we already have enough laws to cover these things don't do it it's just it's just gratuitous they have to gay stuff and also good news from columbus ohio where their city council has passed a ban on conversion therapy for minors which is a positive trend that we see happening in more and more places but as the state of ohio they've reintroduced your l g b t rights bill and they asked governor case that you about it and he said oh i don't want anybody to be subject to discrimination but i'm not sure it's a problem but ohio i running custody case of the the millers jenkins custody case yes you guys have tell you and you went out of talked about this for years on the show which is the great tragedy because even if one of the women said i'm not a lesbian i'm more she abducted the kid took her to i don't know south america or something like that lisa miller and flew to nicaragua via canada and abducted the daughter because she was afraid that custody would be awarded to her former lesbian partner and she had left the lesbian lifestyle and decided that she was now with a conservative christian and she was aided and abetted allegedly by liberty university and the liberty council well they were waiting for some of the convicted and sentenced to three years in prison so now that that criminal action has wrapped up they're looking at the civil action and liberty university could be on the hook for major damages when you consider that this woman's relationship with her daughter has essentially been eradicated it happened in two thousand and four and is now two thousand and seventeen and that child was seven years old and in two thousand and four quickly go through as predicted by and of this week last week show that national organization for marriage is anti transgender bus did get vandalized in new york somebody paid to transliteration on it and scratched it have been itself who profits the bus was headed to trump tower to haven boston philadelphia washington d c and thanks to the sleuthing of dan savage we now know that not two but voted for trump so you know his policy positions are pretty people but he says he says that he's actually on all our issues that he's in favor he supports marriage equality he's married himself to one man that he supports adoption rights for same sex couples that he opposed bathroom bills by a couple of new new york notes are our attorney general has brought charges against a republican state senator robert ort from upstate new york now all this would be great in terms of eliminating some of these anti republicans from the legislature but we still have in this state a lot of renegade democrats who caucus with the republicans to keep them in power of course it would be now schneider but of course has a lot of jurisdiction over trouble he could do something to and to get him on something that would be nice about some terrible things in new york the port authority is conducting an anti gay sting in the restrooms which is just outrageous and in queens in jackson heights they arrested six male prostitutes in order to clean incorporated to do that right to international norms yeah i also i do want to note that the a p stylebook is now saying this is for their for their reporters when they write stories can use they as a singular pronoun this is something that transgender people want especially and they've also included homophobia and homophobic as words that their reporters can use in two thousand and twelve they were trying to discourage them from doing this and i think this is a great which has apparently long been a little bit of a gain haven as much as one can be in africa because things aren't always good for the good so africa but there was an read on how the laws against it going to exactly they do not but two gay men were jailed for three months for public indecency law that carries a harsher sentence who are being unnatural it's the same sense the same thing they do in egypt but apparently this is one of the st times that this is been applied in this way and it's causing a lot of monks for people in the ivory coast who saw especially in the city of abidjan pronounce it correctly which is the commercial capital sort of like the new york i guess of ivory coast and it's long been seen as a day people can be safe at the ministry of justice they're actually considering changing the law so that it no longer singles out homosexual acts or relations now would be wonderful and while commuters from a continent where we often get only bad news my favorite story of the week is for was truly where  a an eighteen year old gay rodeo cowboy actually senses might be nineteen but he's a ball writer and he started receiving death threats because he was open and he responded to everybody in a in a short rural australia has a terrible problem with homophobia and needs to stop and we need to join together as a community to make it happen the fact that i'm getting death threats just for going to a rodeo  people think that homophobia doesn't exist on the radio nd but it certainly does i face it daily and it's really sad that still happens in the st century but i always if i thought it was good that guys died of aids and he also said he wished it was fighting fifty so he could go and she thing just a kid u the texas rodeo maybe you can stand up to travel i thought that was a brilliant you know i especially like these kind of scum of the on great talent like it is all right what else is going on in india the catholic church has teamed with trans advocates to improve the community they've opened the st school where members of the trans community could take classes and vocational training right you know enough to make your head spin and then back in australia for just a  nd the minsk immigration minister peter peter dutton wants to have a male plebiscite on game day i al and people are organizing against it because they think it's incredibly bad idea which it is ok literally there it is these are these are drawn into the streets and it's to promote press and you can learn more about that by going to prep here prep h e r e dot org and of course as  baldwin our associate producer says you know all hospitals are supposed to provide prep prep at this point but i mean but you can learn about it by going to that website and just because i sometimes find it confusing prep is pre exposure prophylaxis yes as opposed to you don't have a chevy you take the pill every day and you won't get hiv except in the extremely extremely extremely smaller of odd cases correct ok but you should still use condoms because there are a lot of other executed and entertaining and it's making a hell of a lot of money at the box office which is only good for the future of things like this you can read all of chris cooper's movie reviews and we put this in our in our email  it's a very melodramatic story you know it's got everything but eva and allister bramber in the leads there they are they have very fine voices and it's very hard not to be you know my problem with missing on has always been you know it's a british production in my attitude is you know what you brits don't have enough atrocities in your own history to make musicals about this is true i mean you know come on this is true we're on entertainment news but the superhero america chavez but the most interesting thing is that she's written by a lesbian and a latein that incentive the usual thing where i we're going to throw in some diversity and some old white guy is going to write about  guy so you know really with all this how did trump win well and this is the interesting thing because in the comics when they made lex luthor war president of the united states  and it's the st time a transgender actor has played a transgender role on broadway and justin bond is well known in new york anyway for his act is kiki in the the you know it's sort of like part part of gravity unfortunately not enough of the good parts of one million in gravity and not enough novelty well keep out there sacrificing yourself so we can understand these movies thank you for being