yeah very not but who knows who knows stranger things have happen like moving to impose his ban on transgender troops in the military next month it's complicated but we'll give you the details speaking of transgender troops chelsea manning was locked up for refusing to testify in the wiki leaks case but out in the states we have a couple of wins for transgender people in the iowa supreme court and the ohio court of appeals but in indiana this is kind of surprising they have joined six states and the district of columbia and providing a non binary marker for driver's license so once they got  there they could do thing more on the go along i kept a catholic elementary school in the state of kansas says no to kids with  parents just like jesus would do but here's the surprise at your part of liberty university jerry falwell school now run by a son the students protested the transphobia being falwell's wonders will never cease haven't and a big stone wall fifty exhibit is opening in washington d c we'll show you a little of that yeah all right so the equality act has been introduced to today two hundred thirty house members are  but it's not just us it's a whole raft of people because what it does is take several pieces of civil rights legislation and fix them fix them where they have left out women fix them where they've left out race and so it was a coalition of communities that put together the equality act and it really affects a broad swath of people in a broad range of civil rights bills for many many years we this is not about opening it up to give the right wing no opportunities to do that it's about adding things that need to be added to make sure that a wide broad you know many many many community these are covered still about half the country is not covered by more than half the states well states but but many municipalities within the state yeah cover it yes but more than half the states do not have protections for against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity and so people can be fired from jobs lose their housing and not be served in restaurants or other public accommodations simply because the proprietor of those establishments doesn't like the fact that you're l g b t q they don't have to offer any other explanation they don't have to justify what they did and they're perfectly free to say you're not welcome there are a number of disturbed why this is well i guess i do understand why it's so hard given the where the republican party is these days but this is a bill well it's predecessor you know which was just a and right i mean only lost by one vote in one nine clinton administration and i will never be convinced otherwise bill clinton had that guy down there in arkansas so that they wouldn't pass and so he wouldn't be held responsible for the passage of it and i wasn't the only reason they were having the vote was because they were they were really screwing us over on doma yeah so that they said ok we'll have a vote on that money and the house did pass and one point i mean so they're both in the past we've won but we're still in a situation where the house will pass this bill yes and the senate will not well it won't at the moment i am not entirely convinced that we can't get there it is more importantly can can we get enough equality caucus they're all democrats there are one hundred sixty companies that came out in support of this big corporation and then there's the polling on this from the public religion research institute you know it shows majority support in republican support this by fifty seven percent liberal democrats eighty three percent jehovah's witnesses by fifty three percent and that's a shocker every age category every race category every gender categor supports this comprehensive nondiscrimination approach and in addition to the sixty four civil rights act this also impacts the fair housing act it impacts employment housing public accommodations  trying to read my writing again jury service education federal programs and credit this is a sweeping bill comprehensive and if all these people support it then you ask why can't the that's why can't the president sign it might be percent of the congress is against hate in all its forms right some days  they did vote on that so we thought we would show you the person of acacia know this we have a couple of things first the story of a guy in mississippi who in fact was rejected from i did come from such a rough background family dysfunction i was homeless by the age of fourteen but i did continue high school as well as college all in pursuit of the american dream do well in your career work hard build a family really learn my way through the mortgage business and real estate agents really connecting with both customers as well as realtors and learning the business and excel really well  i was doing great in my career my wife and i bought our first home we were able to have my daughter create a family one day i go into work and a couple of my colleagues asked me if i could go with them into a meeting so we could have this private conversation they confronted me and said that it had been rumored that as transgender at work it completely changes my life months of discrimination and harassment from colleagues even managerial staff and human resources in the eyes of my colleagues away from people begin to slowly stop talking to me see me kind of go the other way at all in cubicles why when i pass a body if there's another bathroom that i would like to use sometimes i would go on break and sit in my car and cry you know because i'm so stressed out about this i had to mentally prepare it up in a great way just to go to work every day i was eventually far from work simply because of my support me i would have had more completive is why knowing that there is some sort of protectionism i would be as happy as any other american who is pursuing their dream of just taking care of their family and working hard gender identity or sexual orientation right now how h r c which produced that interview with carter also produced a little explaining video which i also think needs a little expl but we'll get to that afterwards but this is a pretty good level some ation of the problem and they solution and it shows you some of the things other things that the bill does besides protect l g b to cure it's hard to believe you can be fired for this but it's true half of americans live in a state with no legal protections for all to be cheeky people they can be fired from their jobs a victim from their homes denied credit or worse  imagine you're a gay couple celebrating an anniversary you walk into a restaurant to have a nice day the manager or the server doesn't approve they won't serve you tells you to get out that's wrong imagine you're a transgender woman and you walk into a store to buy a bra the clerk decides they don't like transgender people doesn't want to sell you a dress that's wrong imagine you're a lesbian couple with three kids you've been dreaming of buying a house you walk into the bank to get a home loan but the manager of the bank doesn't approve of your relationship doesn't like your family refuses to give you credit imagine you're a gay couple who just got married to the best day of your life but then your landlord finds out decides to addict you imagine you're a transgender kid going to school every day your teacher won't use the right pronoun the other kids are harassing you the school won't let you use a restroom consistent with your gender identity you should be able to do something about that you don't have to imagine these things may happen each and every day for many of the equality equality act will provide federal protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in all of these areas of life existed but federal law is not perfect there are ways to improve it as well one of the things the equality act does is it has protections for women right now women are often charged more when they go into a dry cleaner than men for the same service suspicious that's not illegal now but the equality act would give you re good news is the house of representatives will soon be voting on the that we need your help we need you to call your member of congress and tell well that is a pretty good explanation i would say the real if you want to emphasize one thing call your senator yes because your senator democrat or republican needs some pushing on passing this bill and call the white house they're really going to need a push on this how to listen of course not but he would you have to be in the game and you have to make yourself heard and this is the time it's now i mean because when i think of the people that trump does listen to he is entertaining the president brazil next week on march nineteenth president balsa naro they're going to have a little hate fest at the white house he's there he's a real gay hater and this is going to be the one year anniversary of the assassination about lesbian council woman mario franco an activist by a militia linked to balsa gnarls family they finally i guess it was yesterday to their former police officers or whatever in these militias who were part of the group that killed her and they are trying to actually fought so that they can maybe get out the whole gang that did this but one of these guys is from a little town where both in our own lives and  been linked to his family and meanwhile paulson are always tweeting out video of things he didn't consider is disgusting at the pride parade but here's who else trump listens to besides the part of the homophobic overtly homophobic and evidently violence supporting president of brazil he listens to tony perkins of the family research council and mike pence as vice president and ryan anderson of the heritage foundation and representative vicki hartzler of missouri about making trance people leave the military or not be able to serve openly or not be able to transition while they're in the military they get sign off on all the judges that are being appointed now the trump judges are twenty percent of the federal judiciary more about that later well the news this week is that the trump administration issued a directive now that they think the courts have gotten out of their way to start the ban on trans troops in the military there are four lawsuits that were brought against his ban on trans troops the four courts where these cases were heard all put in injunctions against enforcement of the ban nationally three of those injunctions have been overturned two of them by the supreme court one by a lower court that just said well the supreme court and thirty day is horrible and we're hearing from our kids for transgender troops the people who are either in the service or who are applying for the service are terrified well here and here is the new rule if you are already in the service and you are trans and you have transition and you are out about it you will be allowed to stay in the service and continue to serve you are grandfathered in as they say if you are in the service and you have transition but you're not out about it you have hurty days to come out because if they find out about you they will throw you out of the hole for news and saying then ridiculous if you were in the service and you want to transition you must apply for that and get approved within this thirty  you will be out now the exception to that is that the various service secretaries can on a case by case basis give you a waiver to this rule and let you stay in and let you transition that's going to be a hard sell although all the service secretaries support service by trans troops they're against this ban so maybe they'll just give a waiver to everybody and if you apply for the service are trans or want to transition they will reject you and the thing is they say this is not a ban on trans troops you can serve if you're trans as long as you don't transition as long as said appealing to the base well the only bright point in this is that these court cases are not done these court cases will proceed the supreme court has not made a final decision on it the just allowed the ban to go into effect correct now because they allowed the ban to go into effect you might think that by the time the cases actually get to them they may be inclined to uphold the ban but there is always hope that we can convince the court to allow transfer well or maybe if some of the service chiefs or whatever allow people to serve and they can then show there's not a problem we've already done that well i know i know but but i do think all is not lost and the idea is we have to pursue these court cases as all these legal our organizations are doing their own way to map whole had taken advantage of that moment in the white house and said something about this when he was sitting there with the president the president was the apple's symbol it would have been better if he had said something about the way they're treating trans people it's all this question of corporations that want to do business with the government and want the government to go easy on them and so they don't speak out the most patriotic thing you can do is stand up for justice and the american way all right and then you know what some other trump notes this  week i read this week that among incarcerated migrant children they are being delivered now to a christian adoption service with links to betsy divide us what else did betsy device do this week she eased the separation of church and funds to fix its playground so they're hanging on that that was a very hard fought case because people don't want religious schools to get public funding it was another case that they didn't even take this this past week with the supreme court on this sort of on this matter everybody thought they were going to go farther and they didn't well that's evidently far enough for a divorce who is now she doesn't need any excuse to see them or if she says religious organizations can get federal funds for secular projects in the public schools ok well as i've always said we have a horrible situation about that in new york city and you have tons of money to religious and we're going to go on to some school stories eventually but a couple of pence things i thought mayor  donations as a result how could he how could pence allow himself to be the cheerleader for the porn star presidency is it that he stopped believing in scripture when he started believing in trump that's a good i mean this is a great line i mean he's a very smart thoughtful guy on the shoes i'd love to see him debate her and but he's also a phrase maker and people are going to remember that phrase and it's going to be hung on trump the porn star presidency what are you going to call you can't even pronounce people who  can judge what a judge and i mean also wants a fifteen member supreme court yeah i've talked about this in the past about but of course his thing wouldn't require an amendment to the constitution he said yes expand the federal judiciary and and add more justices but let the the additional six be a consensus pick each one of the existing supreme court so that because he says the court has become too politicized every one of these appointments causes a horrible thing in the country let's take some of that pressure off and get judges that everybody can agree are fair judges battle take centuries well that would that would take because the president in the constitution gets to appoint these people but the number want to expand the lower courts otherwise people like anna mae are going to be living under this regime for the rest of my life and that's why you're going to say i've been living under this table for the rest of our lives and thank you to nancy pelosi who took away my pence's office in the capitol said paul ryan had given to him so no more pants living in the cap and as long as we're talking about large scale reforms of the colorado house passed the national popular vote bill the thirteenth state to constitution and so that you don't have a donald trump who got three million fewer popular votes assuming the presidency because where his votes were gave him more electoral votes this is say we won't go through the process of getting rid of the electoral college even though it's bad but what we will do is set up a system that becomes a one person one vote election for president by assigning the electoral votes as the popular vote could look it up national popular vote and you know it's very important that we get that done and get that done fast and then you know all of you who live in states that are ignored by the presidential candidates because your state is going to go for one of the other would now be in play yet my body would be in play every vote would be in play yes so that would be great and i here's another bad trump thing the th was a poignant story in the new york times magazine this last weekend customs officials took a h i b positive mother and her two daughters one of whom is eighteen and hiv positive fled honduras where they were being horrendously abused and customs said all right be a champion positive mother and the non infected daughter can stay here and apply for asylum but the eighteen year old hiv positive has to go back to honduras absolutely insane and cruel beyond imagining the stuff for the border is insane elizabeth warren was down there this week looking around they wouldn't let cameras and while she had to talk about it the other day speaking of transgender troops chelsea manning was locked up this week for refusing to testify in the wiki leaks case now this was a case that the obama administration a bruce suit abandoned but now the trump administration is pursuing and they the judge is going to say you're locked up for the duration of the grand jury or or eighteen months at the maximum  chelsea said these secret proceedings tend to favor the government i'm always willing to explain things publicly and glenn greenwald the journalist from brazil raises the issue you know this is a press freedom can yes there they want to crack down says this is stuff i testified about years ago there's nothing new but others say look you're allowed to come out of the grand jury and talk about everything that you testified to so maybe this is  investigation for fraud that's a civil case and the manhattan d pants is trying to redeem himself for not indicting jared when he had the chance years ago and he is bringing sixteen troy williams or i williams we have we have a share of him so i don't i'm not going to be window dressing for your task force if you're not going to do anything if you're not going to be with us or you're not going to deal with these issues he says if you change your mind you know where to find me and he said  conversion therapy is causing some of these suicides so the governor writes a letter apologizing well monday there was a demonstration by university of utah students who went to his office yes and then look there they're funny there that you know you i totally misunderstood this let's start again i was you know i was deceived or i just didn't get it i am i hear you let's let's start talking about this again   president of the senate the state state senate majority leader at kittens and yeah seems like a great success story well it turns out that calvin has been using there big basketball power they were down there at the c pac conference and then one point jerry jr and his wife jerry jr says you know we just welcome to baby girl into the family grandparents and we're raising or is a girl we're not letting her have a choice and jerry said she's got a little baby doll under her arm every second to which donald trump jr who is on the panel with him says much oh no  my boys always not excuse me jerry falwell said my boys always have guns in their hands and trump jr said hashtag me too so liberty university we just showed you students thirty of them protested led by an out bisexual sophomore elizabeth oxley thirty students at liberty university are you allowed to be bisexual of liberty university well i don't think they can shoot you for that even if their sons are carrying guns  right all right other educational news in kansas a catholic school in kansas rejected the application of a kindergarten student  because the student has parents who are a same sex couple and the school explained that the problem is that back and most parents can't model the behavior that i in the school a kindergarten child who has same sex parents would confuse the other children so this was mainly coming from the archdiocese right yeah so parishioners really got up in arms about this and they asked the ar getting smart well we've been hammering them on the head first so many years they figured it out you know what's his name from saturday night live got in trouble this week what's his name pete davidson yes pete davidson because he said supporting the catholic church is the same thing as being a fan of r kelly these days so so in favor of that or against it so said he saw no difference between r kelly and the church except one's music is significantly better and i think that's the catholic church i don't know where you're speaking i just said one of them and i think you probably couple who were plaintiffs in the marriage suit there have created a scholarship for l g b t catholic students at the university of louisville college students so they should help out this elementary school and  know the methodist colleges are seriously considering ending their affiliation with the methodist church at this point because of their homophobia you voted for him or not it's been a tenuous relationship anyway for a lot of these schools and they're just saying it's untenable now all right let's move to mississippi where a trans woman was denied a job in day care katrina kelly twenty six years old she was invited to mississippi is the state with the worst law the one that says if you have any objection at all to someone who is trans or someone's sexual orientation or whatever you can refuse to hire them or whatever you there are no barriers at all and this is devolved to the detriment of katrina now we told you about the homophobia of a new york city council member democrat named ruben d s sr who is a pentecostal minister he lost his subcommittee because he started saying that the city council was controlled by homosexuals well lost a subcommittee but he's unrepentant this week he retreated an article saying hollywood is controlled by homosexual jewish men who expect overkill at the very least well and the police are in trouble to some extent for spilling the beans on things as the investigation was going on and i spent all sixty sixty employees have been let go for accessing his medical records if you want to and your computer room looked up his records you're fired some of them are saying well i was in this position and i had a right to look up as records but sixty of them are out the door look this is insane it didn't hurt anyone well but the hurt for a lot of people was first of all you know destroying a lot of people's ideas of what i hate crime is but they act like they're devoting all their resources to good things which i would argue and i just think this is piling on and we don't know the facts of the case yet maybe he is just guilty from the word go but i still don't think that he has some emotional issues i sadly you know are what i expect and then he needs some help rather than being indicted on sixteen counts or they're going to give us some help in indiana because they've begun issuing gender neutral non binary markers and next on your driver's license if you'd like that and it was done because of legislation on the recommendation of the american academy of motor vehicle a bit straighter and the absence of mike pence much you do need to submit a physician's no amended birth certificate can't just come in and say i want it other states with this option are california colorado maine minnesota oregon and the district of columbia nice right in iowa the supreme court ruled in favor of two trance women who were rejected for medicaid coverage of their trans care surgery or hormones or whatever and the court said no medicaid has to unreasonable and based soley on the trans status of the applicants child the kid was fifteen is fifteen the court really this is the first time we've gotten a pro decision out of the ohio court of appeals very  ed but they had to send it back to the lower court which could make the same decision whether or not i think so yes god in north carolina lambda legal defense and the transgender legal defense and education are suing over the denial of health care coverage to state employees who are trans north carolina state health plan categorically excludes coverage for gender com confirming health care coverage trance care in california and non binary person was turned away for giving blood then levy thirty one a donated for thirteen years and said he go the blood bank says they need guidance from the f t essay about how to deal with exactly and these rules are very arbitrary and nonsensical to begin with blood donation rules should deal with whether you've engaged in any risk behaviors no matter what your gender or sexual orientation are have you had unprotected sex also had problems with their passport and their driver's license too so even though these states are more enlightened about instituting these non binary identifications not everyone has gotten the message yet april twenty sixth that alone would be a reason to go about chicago you know we told you there's going to be a run off for mayor between two african american women and one of them is an out lesbian lori lightfoot and she well they asked i really admire the fact that you're so open about your sexual orientation little it's sort of wondering if she was just trying to get that in man to make it an issue with conservative voters but whatever we'll see the vote is april for it for the new mayor of chicago we told you about the equality act well sage for older people had a national day of advocacy today when we're taping on wednesday and they're also lobbying and addition for the really undergoing a lot of harassment in the men's prison in south carolina an elementary school in morris south carolina rejected a fourth graders essay on bt acceptance for a book on of essays on so sorry because it might upset parents so the mother is suing this is a ten year old her granddad is apparently and those rights activists the student wrote re trans people but some people think they are choosing the wrong thing of life but in the world people can choose who they want what a subversive ten year old massachusetts the republican governor charlie baker says that he is inclined to support a law for biddy conversion therapy for minors he hasn't totally agreed to it yet but he's pretty sure he would sign now about more roy moore is thinking of running again against jones would that be nice i mean they just never go away i will contribute to the campaign and we mourn the loss and celebrate the life of john richardson who died at ninety five he was a extremely famous art historian that's him on the right with his pal well five for a long time and he had partner douglas school for a long time they were you know very out and about and you know we think we invented this but please when i'm going to mention that the texas republican party took one little anti gay thing off their platform at the behest of the gay tell me i'm not aware they removed the language from its infamous platform but no longer since homosexuality is a chosen behavior that must not be presented as an acceptable lifestyle they're still against all old you bt right but this is seen as probably a lot less they do the bathroom build against transgender people is a top priority for twenty nineteen technically subject to a fifty year prison term and he got six and there are a lot of people who think six was pretty light he's got two former prime ministers speaking up for about that trial and he seventy seven years old  china the chinese government says oh yes we accept the united nations human rights council's recommendations on l g b t rights such as adoptee nay sexual orientation gender nondiscrimination laws our content is censored on line they just shut down to well g b t i organization it's very difficult to register new ones this is something that we were going through here in one hundred seventy three when states would not register congress will vote to ban same sex marriage although legalizing same sex marriage has been made dated by the enter american court of human rights activists in guatemala will s the country does pass they know same sex marriage bill and two gay men are running for congress there which is a good thing then the vote is june sixteenth and in thailand they're having their big election on march twenty fourth and the first trans woman to run for that country will on the march twenty fourth election in thailand the april fourth election in chicago and the june sixteenth election in guatemala and the polish elections are coming up for the european parliament so they're piling on with anti gay stuff with them the ruling party they're having their national elections later this year but this this weekend in poland and olympic we're windsurfer medalist sophia club paca attacked the warsaw mayor we told you about his pro l g b to order and she said no to the promotion of people and said her grandfather didn't fight in warsaw uprising for this so a veteran of the warsaw uprising an ancient nobody is allowed to be disregarded so after this controversy soccer fans in warsaw unfurled a banner supporting our club the anti gay and then they put up another banners saying keep watch we're saw free from faggots this is allowed and more so as stadiums own free speech i guess it's terrible yes waving the confederate flag wow did you see that story of the girl in and i have written it notes and posting them all over school and she gets reprimanded for this and told that she is being disrespectful and abusive to the g s a the how do you think i feel about the p but she said she says i wasn't i didn't even know what the c s a was i wasn't abusing anyone i was trying to help people they need help they need god god needs to cure them they should not be is not an organization she's an individual putting up notes and they said well you didn't have permission i mean some people got bible verses tattooed on themselves living as i do exactly in the netherlands the senate has  added sexual orientation and gender identity nondiscrimination to a nondiscrimination long in the united kingdom the women's prize for nonfiction which was instituted because so few women were nominated for the booker prize twenty seven years ago is anon for the first time a non binary trans person author nigerian author named key easy thirty one who lives in brooklyn now for her first novel freshwater non binary probably she's on the short their first novel yes oh that i did not send her that's wrong i have they are written down here sorry shortlist comes out april twenty ninth and the winner will be announced june fifth in malaysia the minister there condemned the presence of people in the international women's day march calling it anti islamic aids news ok well so the president put his budget in this week which we don't really need to discuss because you know it's just a political document but well it has more money for press but it doesn't do anything about the prices for prep which he could bring down by taking back the  you know it puts two hundred ninety one million more but it also cuts two trillion dollars to twelve dollars for medicaid and medicare over the next ten years wow and cuts  billion out of the and i h budget but mostly in aids news this week we want to celebrate and mourn the loss of jim chad yes sixty two years old living with a with h human services the national aids housing coalition board west hollywood disability advisory board a journalist a software expert and when he found out yet h and he saw people around him wasting in dying he went out and put on a ton of muscle he made himself huge so that he could fight against the wasting that would come from having to be in the drugs mr in the room for the broadway backwards benefit for broadway cares and the l g b to center they raised a record seven hundred thousand dollars so charming to see people like len cariou get up there and sing a woman song like here's to the ladies who lunch it was hilarious kathleen turner awards in los angeles march twenty eighth because jay z and beyonce are going to show up to accept the vanguard award as allies they've both spoken out for l g b t rights used a lot of people in their videos they really have done a lot and that should be terrific and on may fourth madonna will be at the new york city glad awards getting an award you know if you're planning to go to washington to educate for the president to be impeached you might want to go to the newseum there because until the end of the year they're going to have a bigger exhibition rise up stonewall on the old g b t q rights movement these photos that are given to us from mark siegel they go twenty movie of the eternals they prefer someone out gay thirty to forty nine any ethnicity contact marble not us and we will be back next week i