transgender people i think the real headline is has he lost it completely are not the debate is open but meanwhile the log cabin republicans club has endorsed trump for reelection and becomes funnier than it was this is a man bites dog story here's a question can a t shirt company refuse to print a pro t shirt on religious grounds the kentucky supreme court is going to decide retreat on gun control this week he said you know they call the slippery slope and i'm not going to let that happen and we're not going to let the slippery slope to fascism go down either mr president you're a country to many from strangers so i only mean it is trump supporters that non trump support guys but let's launch into the noose around him so the justice department they filed their briefs to the supreme court in the case that's going to one case that's going to be heard on october th among three bt cases urging the court to allow employers to turn away or fire transgender  solely on their gender gender identity they say the title seven of the civil rights act of one thousand nine hundred and sixty four only protects on the basis of biological sex which is not the rest of it and the courts that well in fact we've had much more success in the courts in the case six transgender employees on the arguments than we have on sexual orientation because so clearly when you're talking about an trance employee who is fired for being intransigent is because they have in their terms changed their sex and therefore to make the argument that this is sex discrimination is a lot easier and then to make a sexual orientation charge stand in an argument about sex discrimination some of the fact that the trumpet administration is is landing on this st seems unlikely but they're going to go after all else all the way this is the case of a woman named me amy stevens transgender woman versus harris funeral home where she worked in michigan and then they fired her after she trained you know transition the u s court of appeals for the th circuit held for her and now we have the current court and the current court has shown no signs of coming down on our side on this so it's not impossible but i wouldn't necessarily bet the house in our favor on because of course at the same time the department of labor has proposed a new rule busy that would expand the right of federal contractors to claim a religious right to not  hire people or single parents or members of other religion anything that they claim their religion is again says the thirty three comment period on this one well over one hundred thousand people rode in on the one of the last one which inappropriate and fired him and i can't remember what the rd case is but it's another sexual orientation case maybe the georgia case i don't want to say right when i'm just trying to pull it out of my i was waiting on that because t meeting on august th help us find traces single and it's a heartbreaking story she had only to use that on june th she is from new orleans she just settled into a new home and just to death they did a nice thing for her in houston they did a lighting up of city hall and her memory and let up some courage to do so they're taking note of this but no one's but i have to repeat what would be even better is lots of employment opportunities lots of educational opportunities etc for transgender people living so far on the edge i don't know the exact circumstances of this death he was killed at a gas station but who knows well the most one of the more chilling stories to come out that encompasses all of this is matt staver of liberty counsel one of these right wing groups giving an interview and saying that yes president trump has accomplished ninety percent of their right when you have goals from expanding religious freedom to issuing pro life declarations to the point you know these judges and doing all this a is a club that barely exists of gay well i think it's just mostly gay male republicans a couple of women one of them is one of their executives this is a group that is basically opposed to transgender rights and excuses trump's assaults on  to have their analysis johnson trying to ask him about this in light of all these horrible things he's doing and trump of course just ignoring the substance of the question and talked about how honored he was to have endorsement so the log cabin quote unquote cabin people also were happy about the tax cuts they must all run corporations if they're happy and i'm tired most telling experience with log cabin republicans was at the republican national convention they had a big party get bryant park where you there  and i thought all these people off welfare they went crazy for that they love that that's what they love but not all of them are heartless jennifer horn of new hampshire a former chair of the republican state committee resigned from the log cabin club she s dying because of the silence of those who oppose this president i mean and so obviously they talk to lots of republicans and think oh my god you know it's terrible but they won't speak up and robert turner the former head of the d c chapter also resigned citing trump's anti  g b t rollbacks and rule changes at the club in endorsing did it meant that they thought banning trans people from serving in the military was a bad thing but nonetheless they were endo student i think named patricia ryan clyde's called parsing bill it's very very gets stranger and stranger extremely strange does all right trump stuff well how about the trump  donors how about them you know we told you well the head of marvel comics and movies i mutter censored this week art speak well he didn't do it but his company did they censored art spiegelman the cartoon who did mouse about the not the meissen the holocaust because he wrote an intro to marvel the golden age and mentioned the out of the phrase at the orange skaro that haunts america but he was writing about the fascism well now they're into fascism and the designer major designer rag and bone has pulled out of fashion week and steve ross has the big trump donors hudson yards which is up a block from us and it went out to the sauce like the whole cycle so psycho yes yeah they're owned by steve ross they're trying to dig themselves out of this by donating a one million dollars to charities but to vote on which charities should  be a member and you have to show up to their clubs so forget about it people are withdrawing because they don't want steve ross his bank account further padded and while there are is news on an almost daily basis about who his  owners are and they do control a lot of america and it's going to get very narrow number of companies we can patronize without running into that was ever so yeah and you know in reading about trump's retreat on gun control i learned this week i didn't know this that the nd amendment was intended to appease slave holders such as patrick henry the governor of virginia who threatened not to adopt the constitution because he was worried about congress having the power to control militias he one of the states to be able to do it so that they could keep slave rebellions down and round up runaway slaves so that's where it came from and parent that acclaimed congratulations to the new york times for the major  project they're doing on the history of slavery in the united states starting in one thousand six hundred and nineteen and yes and talking about how far how much farther back and been jackie would soon have major pieces in the sunday times magazine on this but it's really stunning and important and i'm happy to see that there is a huge hunger for this information and the times is being inundated with requests for material that it is timely because that is what we are living through now i mean look i mean look at you know how even though the officer who killed  garner you know was finally disciplined he lost his job you know by the new york city police tomorrow but they were practically apologetic about it yes and criticized garner for resisting arrest when all he was really doing is rebalancing of the power dynamic and it's quite quite fascinating and moving and important to read so i'm predictably the husband of our ambassador to the vatican newt gingrich said parenthood you know said that they're not going to comply with the gag rule good for them state and local governments and more liberal states are making up the sixty million dollars that they are for going and other ten cents state agencies are opting out of the federal money to some of the they also are not subject to this gag rule this extreme gag gag rule which says you can't tell women where to go for an abortion you can't even discuss it with them right now it was nice to see two of the anyway these guys who were convicted face up to fifteen years and they're being sentenced on october th i want to hear about the methodists shore the methodist church has drafted and released this thing called the indianapolis plan because they're going to have to split up over all g b t rights these are irreconcilable differences because they decided this year to reinforce their prohibitions against  performing same sex marriages having clergy people were very very upset and so this split is coming to fruition so they say they want to maintain neighborliness with the two wings they're going to establish two separate wings and they're going to have to separate names because they can hardly call themselves the united methodist church anymore now they could call themselves the warring methodist church of the divided methodist church but they prefer to go through a conscious uncoupling but the conservatives are insisting almost sexuality is incompatible with church teaching and the others are saying we want to do gay weddings that we want gay clergy and they'll just go their separate ways and they'll be happier i wish we could effect such a divorce in our country without a civil war do we have any idea of the numbers are what happens to a church utah you remember the kidnapping of elizabeth smart and who is rescued finally some years later after being kidnapped in two thousand and two well her father ed has now come out as he owns a bar called a gay bar called pegasus in san antonio he's not leaving he's running for congress against walk in castro he's a big trump supporter and on gay people he says i do not wish to force americans to understand our culture and a track record of failure so i'm not worried so much about him going to the moron trouble about the united states the knowing flu vaccinations to migrant families the border detention camps isn't that an interesting genocide on par and it's about hoping to speaking of health and transgender people u s district judge william conley granted summary judgment to a class of medicaid participants issuing a permanent injunction against denial of coverage for gender confirmation surgery under medicaid and he said it not only violates the a c s a which is being challenged in court by trump but also the medicaid act itself and the equal protection clause so it's going to stand if the a c l falls let's go to the lexington kentucky t shirt case right here we are we've been talking about this case for years and we've been talking about it it's a two thousand and twelve so why go in the context of a lot of other cases th cases the flower cases the one ever because this is a case where i said print shop owner and lexington kentucky did not want to print this t shirt for the th annual lexington pride festival that's not entirely true because they submitted this design and he said fine fine hero we'll get it to you on tuesday yeah but then he figured out what lexington pride was all about and now they're in court you know so that's why see if it was just a print case where you came in and said i don't want to print this i think printers are entitled to say i don't want to print something but this he only he's against the group he's  well he's against the design in retrospect and is there a time limit on when he gets to figure out his attitude on the design i say as playing devil's advocate but yeah the pride festival people say he's discriminated against us on the basis of sexual orientation and he's saying no it's the message of the t shirt so the appeal they want to the level of the human rights commission the appeal the pride festival you want the appeals court found no proof of discrimination based on sexual orientation but a firm disapproval of the message out vacating sexual activity outside of marriage but again as i said came up later that's what makes this case complicated because normally banker who serves the public is expected to serve all of the public is supposed to serve the public too and even the appeals court said if they have been rejected on the basis of their sexual orientation and yeah  drape shoulder covering thing that they put on women for your book pictures and she wanted to be an attack so the photographer said fine i'll shoot you in the talks and this is the picture she wanted in the yearbook but in fact the school said no that is they gender stereotype they said this is not appropriate for our female student movement public high school yeah and so the year book was published and she picks up a copy of the yearbook and she's in a list at the end that says no picture available at the school meadows says they're going to print a page to include all students regardless of choice of attire that they're learning about these issues because like they could be sued now and in denver colorado at coors field where the colorado rockies baseball team plays a lesbian couple attending a ballgame to celebrate their anniversary were asked by a stadium employee to refrain from kissing now they say they were just doing casual light kissing and you know you have to do to drive me crazy well this stadium has explicit rules that say no outrageous public displays of affection that would be outside of totally they didn't go exactly so they get a room they feel they were treated in a way that a straight couple would not have been treated to so they complained and the colorado rockies have apologized to them and offered them tickets to a subsequent game but they think this is basically busy a little lip service yes they that are and because the team had too many gay mayors back to back in city hall period i think that would be to it's time to get it straight but she said no to a species said she's not homophobic and her words are being twisted they have been preventing ads from appearing on l g b t videos according to this suit and laughing a mature label on l g b t v the people suing feel that they are being discriminated against trade mart to go train people were going to do aids work in new york and a whole bunch of niger this was a whole room full of nigeria and so the catholic church had brought in and they said to us this is very interesting to us because we don't have homosexuals where we're from vote against that bill to give them free securely mariette i'm talking out of mayors but everybody else indulges them i mean they didn't even address the break in that community until for months and months in  in yes circumcision yeah cetera c etc or even cracking down on the horrible education job they do with their kids you know right well right now i mentioned that you know in new york there's these lawsuits against abusers the window was opened up for a year it started last week right i found suits have been filed for one year you can file and you can also if you ever starkly have been sexually abused by whatever authority figure he or anybody you know yeah he used to be a statute of limitations but that has been laziness down here from filing when you were twenty three now it's up to fifty five and then for now it's for anybody anybody but one of the suits is by a guy named james groene sixty one years old he was abused as the child by ted mccarrick the archbishop of newark and then he was in new york in washington since childhood he was in a meeting with pope john paul in front of vatican officials thirty dear brad i think it's certainly grounds for well we have to take the halo off of fame down away so she was scheduled to appear in the show tea at five on broadway which has something to do with catherine have come she was going to play katharine hepburn i guess which doesn't strike me as good chemistry whatever whatever so nine she got fired and one of the guys in the well i know he's in her personal assistant during the one really know he made public the news that she had been fired for not being able to remember her lines and throwing things that people slapping you know crewmember her or throwing things whatever so then she starts abusing him he gets fired and now he has filed suit against her and she called him another day were all the workers there little gay people and called him a little homosexual her he was fired you know he's suing the whole company so it's a mess and see if t it five ever appearance on broadway and then there's news that and again i'm going to say i don't believe the accuser in this case don l being sued by a trump supporter who has a grudge against c n n who says that don is suing don lemon for sexual harassment if you said while he was bartending in the hamptons and categorically denies that the guy tried to extort lemon for  one point five million dollars and i won't file the suit is name is dust and heists h i c e he ought to be countersued lemon is in gauge to ten below that doesn't mean that he couldn't have done something we weren't to read this thing but we do know is that at a metropolitan community church of albuquerque new mexico windows have been broken in the church six times in two weeks  they put the rocks inside the church and they said we're stronger than a little rock and that was what pastor judith maine are nice to say that they're pounding up for white supremacist in this week who were about to shoot us all yes i do appreciate law enforcement for doing and as we mentioned last week when his case against close to school board they are appealing and gavin says i'll see it all the way through but they did say we will change your again and so it may get to the new board again a real hero he really really is because he has persisted all right international news and congratulations to the mayor of ottawa canada  allowed me to live my life as full of love and adventure as my gay friends who were braver and bolder than i ever was well except i got a note from a viewer who said the mayor had shown up at some of that w people who have been in the white house who worked with him of met with him say he is a total maniac who is lost his mind and then he gets on t v and while i don't think you know he says nothing i agree whether i think it is the truth he appears they do educational professional programs on sexual and gender diversity now this of course then immediately implicated the palestinian members of congress the whole israeli lobby the think your civil rights should be taken away because you hold the zamora positions the fact that the palestinian authority is saying this to al cause doesn't mean that there are any less abused by our israeli government could it's the real thing prior marches as troubling he had her harming polish society and the best ones are traveling the inner yes like the one we did in new york this year they have the reclaim pride march the queer liberation march but here is my favorite story of the week i always have on wales i don't know so well but i watch the show in port color porthcawl i think it's pronounced port call could be there  local government has decided to make some physical in just minutes to the public toilets where they are unhappy that men are meeting for sex so they have put in a system to make the floors wait sensitive to people in the stalls yes not too many people go stalls to go and look i think it's insane so they so when two people get in the stalls together and a funny place i mean the immigration judge there rejected asylum seekers who claim to be gay saying this guy wasn't offended it enough interestingly the man's partner one asylum from toilet the virgin active gym it's called in london in company they're under fire they told their members because of inappropriate behavior in the locker room for some of these undercover cops were being deployed to investigate criminal and i'd have to be in a towel maybe with a bat and then that end up having sex with them in berlin to get more serious there you know there's a gay holocaust memorial in one of the features that my moral is that you can look through a window into one of the you know tellers or something and see same sex couples kissing yeah and this is seems to upset people well someone is painted over the window so you can no longer see you so much i think you all should reflect on that's why the window is there because people are upset and we're trying to desensitize them to my favorite story of the week is the retirement not that i'm happy that is retiring but of out gay south african  justice edwin cameron he served ten years on the high court there he was twenty five years on the bench he was called to the bench by no less that's him on the right in the picture he was called to the bench by no less than and the minister who spoke at the retirements ceremony said there is no vulnerable group in south africa that you didn't fight for having on the show we did when and he wrote a book he was fraud i didn't know this we didn't talk about this on the show terrific and he it's not like he's going to retire into nothing now he's sixty six years old he's expected to go on to do other things but he's spent twenty five years on the bench in the last ten on the constitutional court and he's ready for a new challenge all right but he he left with his last decision being about land distribution and he has really miraculous busy things about what he sort of said i don't envy the people lawyer who is thus now described as american georgian has filed a complaint against a busy right wing a leader in georgia for attacking and abusing elegy bt people will keep an eye on where activist from traveling to the united states he was headed in basically was the immigration officer not liking this you know where there are sort of two camps and there are the official games who hang out with mariel castro and then there are the independent gains who are anathema to the government because they challenge the government and in brazil president also are of the fascist is trying to prevent the national cinema agency from funding l g b t themed films well that's probably going to be the least of it by the time he gets finished with us hall let a lot of the amazon forest burned right a mess ok she's a former member of parliament as well and she's the st woman in this position so people are optimistic that she is someone with a strong human rights background and perhaps she can help make progress on getting the medicines that are needed to the people who need them because we're not doing a good enough job that currently she is a big front of us leader in new york state i mentioned our attorney general to james she's brought criminal charges against three pharmacies  they take the drugs and then they resell them at the thousands of dollars price they made forty million dollars this way the pills can cost one hundred dollars apiece which is also a scandal the world health organization has come out with new guidance seven on prep pre exposure prophylaxis against h i be taking medicine now we know about taking truvada on a daily basis to prevent infection with hiv and that that is virtually one hundred percent effective but we've also toyed around in the past with different variations on that and the world health organization has now officially declared that event driven practice can be effective and that involves taking two pills two trovato pills or other preventive pills two to twenty four hours before sex and then another pill twenty four hours after you've taken the st two and another one hundred and forty eight hours after you've taken the st two now that's a great solution for people who are not that sexually active  because it means you don't have to take this drug all the time it's expensive you may have access issues and you can just confine your used to four pills total around your sexual state senator ben hoist so is asking the state attorney general to investigate the aids healthcare foundation over an alleged legit fraudulent misuse of savings from a federal drug discount program to help poor patients under this that politically and i didn't realize this group has operates fifty pharmacies and has a one billion six hundred million dollars budget oh yeah they're big time very powerful entertainment news yeah well there is a very very big story in the battle over bachelorette franchise area ok bachelor in paradise and i gave up watching the shows years ago i watched a couple of things about bachelor paradise is the worst if you take family contestants from the bachelor and bachelorette i think i saw about ten minutes of this when i was flipping through channels they put them in some tropical setting for a summer series and they're all supposed to pair one off and have sex with each other or whatever and there is one guy who says i've slept with all the women on the set and tire only possible probably the production  acts last night as we are taping on wednesday afternoon there is a contestant or a participant named to me or demi i don't have to watch the show so i don't know how her name is pronounced so she's been developing a relationship with derek on the show but she has been telling derek that in fact she is by sexual and left a girlfriend at home to come on the show well this of course picks up the ears of the production team and what do they do they bring the girlfriend on the show they love to do that well this is only the nd time in the entire history of all these franchises that they brought it outside iran to one of these shows yes and christian the girlfriend is now on the show she and demi are together and to me says to christian it's always been  you from the very beginning it's never been anyone but you and i want to be with you so this is now setting off fireworks all over bachelor land tonight if you care to know our culture makes progress on these issues well we always sad that we wanted to be everywhere because that's how we would desensitize the top like i'm not sure of one person i do want to invite you to our old friend donna sego you see a lot of her pictures on this show she's a great monologues about fatherhood and birth the death a it's by two playwrights simon stevens who did curious incident of the dog paid who did constellations but there's no i would say very simple writing doesn't survive having very little stage craft this is just the two guys one after the other standing on the surely it sounded like they were reading a short story to me more than they were telling me anything but anyway well i have a much better recommendation for you and that is this new t v show david makes man on the oprah own whole extended television series it's the same setting in the miami housing project basically area young boy in school and fitting in and not fitting in with his community he's not gay and this but there is a whole lineup of queer characters in the show and i watched the st episode last week and it was so moving and so were only words that on again own network wednesday nights and you can catch up is as brilliantly shot and written and moving as moonlight was except now you get hours and hours of it and oprah tells the story of having been invited in to hear the pin and it was supposed to be ten minutes and she came it's not going to be on until march but she won the pulitzer for this and the pose finale was on last night terrific they have now completed two seasons you can also catch up with all those demand and it's really worth september th there's going to be a sort of street performance called love and or fear of celebration of genders six thousand five hundred hollywood boulevard dance performance  art mixed visual art workshops the whole thing on september th so we will be with you next week and we'll have more insight into the president's mental state oh i hope so i really want more insi website that well i just hope he doesn't explode the world but thank you for being with us and we hope to bring you better news next week we all ways that we don't always and i will say if you we all stand up for ourselves