members of course we're recording this on wednesday afternoon and by the time you see it he may have done six other eight things or rescinded this are whatever but at this moment in time he has ruled out trans service members meanwhile his newest pet anthony scaramucci the new communications director once called himself a gay rights activist more trump's  appointments are being confirmed by the republican senate while anti a transgender legislation at vance's in texas several states are making progress on transgender issues this week we have some good news it's a balance to balance out north carolina that horrible bill in the past another horrible bill well on transgender and gay rights and human rights in general well they're being sued over it transgender judge may reconsider its ban on sodomy the speaker of the house in the philippines is endorsing civil partnerships for same sex couples yet another study finds that kno the transmission occurs when viral load is undetectable the international aid society is meeting in paris this week and there are a lot of headlines out of that so we'll go over some of those to tell you what the latest news is afternoon anyway the white house where president donald trump in a series of three tweets this morning this is how policy is now made in the united states announced that he was banning transgender people from serving in the united states military i don't think that's going to hold up in court if it's just a tweet presumably it will be followed by something more substantial although if it is just meant to distract always has and once somebody looks at the books of this private company that didn't have a board to oversee it they're going to find out that he's a crook well i'm going to keep repeating that we are taping this on wednesday afternoon i assume because i assume a lot more information will come out in the next twenty four to forty eight hours but you have to look at the fact that representatives mickey hartzler and stephen king right missouri and iowa right wenger's tried last week to pass an amendment in the house to for bid medical care for trans military members failed much to everyone's shock and then swore that they were going to try again in various ways and i think they just trotted right off to the white house and my aunts and got the ear of donald trump and said you know these people it's just it's costing billions of dollars for their care and it's so disruptive in the military and then he sends out these tweet said six o'clock in the morning the interesting thing is is the pushback the trump is getting from  john mccain senator richard shelby of alabama senator orrin hatch of utah i was just about to mention those well i beat you to it but right wing republican senators well this is where the rubber meets the road this is they have to choose between their lifelong fealty to the military and this moron in the white house and they choose the military the question to update everybody i mean look the there has been open transgender service of people who were already in for a little while yes under obama we have one now and but they're going to not they did not allow transgender recruits to join and that was being delayed for six months as just a couple of weeks ago transgender people have institute says there are fifteen thousand trans people serving in the military the rand institute did a study that said there could be as many as seven thousand there are two hundred and fifty evidently serving openly who have identified themselves so part of the nonsense this morning was idiot reporters going on there and say there are two hundred and fifty trans military members know there are thousands of tr military members here just not up on all the latest information and the debate has been about open service and medical care and the and the obama administration defense department approved open service and approved medical care the right wing work publicans last week were trying to stop the care after failing to even be able to propose throwing people out but they have succeeded in and general mattis has been on our side and was calling members of congress and saying don't pass this anti transgender amendment right and they didn't but did agree to a compromise to lay on new recruits while they studied and so there is some talk of democrats working with some of these that attaching something to another bill that would allow open service by transgender people in the military i think there's a high possibility they could pass something like that but i  think is what i'm supposing and this is where you get to check our speculative powers i am supposing that trump will actually back down on some of this you know i i'm in the pollyanna  hitler with hitler youth and then the worst thing the worst thing about him giving that horrible political speech and for the boy scouts was that most of the boy scouts were chair yeah that was chilling to look at that yes anybody who remembers the rd reich and you know how try seethes about things and he was very unhappy about chelsea manning be pardoned or what exactly was what commute commuted his sentence commuted the fact that she was getting out of prison he was very unhappy about that good though i guess was the longest serving whistleblower in history exactly and you know really didn't hurt anybody and  yourself for the big but the big show because the big show is going to be world war three this maniac has had on the trigger and is ready to go to nuclear war with the red then and quite frankly you know we may end up that way with russia after all that's going to what's going on in terms of the conflicts there so the conflicts in the middle east the conflicts in north korea everywhere he know his there's no bottom none  now i'm also happy about the language that all these senators are using about this they're calling it disgusting they're calling it outrageous they're they're not holding back on their  and i think that's a good thing there was nothing measured about their response then you know there's obviously a part of his base in the religious right that hates transgender people or uses transgender people to get you know keep their organizations going  don't think that's the majority of his base transgender i don't think they care well it's it's an excellent opportunity for temperature taking because what we have predicted that richard shelby of alabama would be standing up for trans this idiot plan and on health insurance and votes yes i have to mention something that came out of left field connected to this though this week story popped up it was covered extensively in newsweek and other major news organizations but it seemed so unlikely that it's hard for us to give it any credence or think that it's real but it's out there in the mainstream media and this is about a  some i guess we used to call the mercenaries but they're independent fighters who are supposedly fighting isis in syria and they are an l g b t it is hard to believe because of the the attitudes towards homosexuality among most of these nations on whatever side you're on is bad the queer the queer insurrection and liberation army initials to kealoha fighting rights we don't know anything about his sexuality but but he you know he took a number of liberal positions he was he believes totally believes in climate change you flop a wall you know it goes on and on and on and on so  not a year ago but here in africa oh shocking all right and let's investigate jeff sessions the democrats are all going out there and saying wow i don't know what to say i was against about on water him but support of me against the president i don't want state went to court last it's all about they want i would vote for the title seven which is against sex discrimination in federal law yeah they want to civil rights act and they want to say that this applies to sexual orientation discrimination right now the nd circuit because of a precedent here said no other circuits have been saying yes this is all working its way up to the supreme court right and now we're going to get a taste of where the trump submitting a brief against us they're telling the nd circuit they should not be interpreted in laws against sex discrimination as including sexual orientation or gender identity even though that's not even in this case and we had to listen you know as but after her repeatedly you know she see you see her on television all the time and i know she gives some good analysis and things like that on some other issues but she was wrong wrong wrong on this and we tried to tell her and she never you know wrote a story about how bad he is i'm going to go after another new york times reporter a little later but let's finish the trump stuff and in the legal arena still they have can the senate has confirmed the her brenda slay antigay john bush to now just homosexual and we told you last week that turn in general sessions had spoken to the lions defending freedom and promised them that soon he would be issuing the guidelines on religious liberty and policies for the federal departments while the a c l u is now filed a freedom of information request to find out what the plans are for this religious liberty guidelines and the continues with the total anti science juggernaut by appointing this sam clovis was no background on the hard sciences for a poor or or any policy experience with food or rag or culture to be the department of agriculture undersecretary for research education of economics the top science position no experience that's so this is draining the swamp and now scott pruitt continues to get rid of all d environmental regulations  new oil exploration coal mining and betsy give us the education secretary was in denver last week addressing our like the american legislative exchange council the one that writes all the right wing laws at the level and she was there to pump up the charter school movement hundreds of people protested outside but betsy stayed strong and then we have the democratic response you have chuck schumer and a couple of others standing there in the countryside in virginia i guess it was yeah you know saying we're going to get better deal to the back of the people it was so new libya i mean if they can't come out with bold things that people can understand on health health care it's got to be single bare and you know on the whole right you can't just say and we're going to have a fifteen dollars minimum wage that's dealing with the margins i'm for it but it's dealing with the margins you've got to restructure this economy for people if it's going to work for everybody and you've got to be for progressive taxation and you've got to stand up to wall street which i mean they they sort of allude to this in a minor way but chuck schumer sold the democratic party to wall street as the senator from wall street so i mean democrats  know it's not enough to be anti trump well still a little more inside trump would help to explain to people that their environment is being ruined their public school system their health care everything else donors i mean cory booker was at this press conference he's a big proponent of charter schools and the health care debate continues hundreds of people are getting arrested in demonstrations at congress including our city council shouting you know yes they were all of course arrested and they made sure that they were the weren't allowed to be photographed the one thing that is positive is that in the house committee they restored budget transgender and gay bills because the governor d abbott is scared of patrick running against him for governor so he went along with calling the special session to do the really really bad and as expected the texas another both houses are controlled by republicans but the senate as expected voted twenty one to ten to pass these horrible horrible bill and the question is whether the speaker of the house joe straus a moderate republican more business oriented will stop this in his chamber and businesses corporations have been showing up to them and lay opposed these bills but the thing that actually surprised and impressed me was that standing on the capitol steps in austin texas as the senate was debating in passing this bill standing there on the capitol steps to oppose this bill or law enforcement officer because they're being asked to be the bathroom little implication there maybe that she was trying to hide something but in fact she had turned over all the documents to us and hiding anything she's totally open and the company that investigated her recommended her for the job it's just that in their investigation court records tax records that became apparent records she had handed over so i just don't want to leave the implication that she was trying to do anything wrong that as we  show north carolina is the current g b t law is being challenged by lambda legal defense and a new suit to them this is the one that governor roy cooper the democrat elected basically on a platform of getting rid of all this stuff signed so i think they've sort of amanda in the a c l u inland and sort of amended their suit they had an ongoing suit against h b to the original anti trance law and then when the state repeal that law and replaced it with this bad one they have now incorporated that new law into the suit they have a and states b to right now know you know tennessee passed this law which said a man means a man married couples so so that was a couple that for a lesbian couple sued their suit was dismissed because they said look the law is the law you're married these are your kids everything there's no problem so you haven't suffered any harm and we're taking this is a victory definitely taking it in victory because the of the decision even though it to dismiss the souse said you are entitled to equal treatment under the law you just this new law that was passed has not harmed you it's just nonsense eight but it's that we're throwing out your suit because you are being treated equally if for if the state manages to not treat them equally they'll go back to court and it was interesting to following up on you know using title seven and all these are the kinds of things to cover us in michigan l g b t groups are asking the michigan civil rights commission to clarify that the state the since the state has a corrections department has agreed to provide medical care for transgender inmates in the corrections were a couple of things like this the the minnesota department of education as an bill that are pro trans one requires the state to give guidance to public schools about policies regarding transgender students and colluding use in the restroom aligned with their gender identity of the nd private state licensed hospitals health providers a center for refusing service to an individual because there are transgender chris christie with a fifteen percent approval rating he did it and delaware the governor there john carney issued a directive for the education department to draft anti discrimination policies to protect  d q students in the state school of public and charter schools so while all this is happening bash in a way that is horrible there are great pockets of decent people who are trying to do the right thing and doing the right thing in rhode island the governor  signed a no conversion therapy for minors bill and in alabama at sam hurd university which is a christian school the school has turned down a three million dollars donation from the alabama baptist convention because the convention demanded that the school reject the l g b t group on campus it's not even an l g bt group it's just a group and says can't we talk about this issue we have to be able to talk about this issue that it's just a discussion group about the issue and that was too much for the for the southern baptist convention and but the school stood up to that they did and we c i was thinking that but i wasn't in the house to be said ok all right and arkin saw the right wing has not given up they are submitting signatures for a public vote on an anti trans bathroom bill and you know we can't pass anything good in pennsylvania state wide although they have a good governor who's done some executive orders but i won ten pounds of i did vote to protect the youth from conversion therapy you know that of us lee all right my next favorite story of the week is in kentucky grant county kentucky where there's a guy who put together a like a theme park called the ark encounter he's made this religious symbol into a gay thing and he said no no no and they said they owe if you were called they were taken and it's our symbol and by the way we're quite interested that you're celebrating god's massacre of the entire do same sex marriages that was went through clerk yeah the u s district judge david bunning who was handled this case from the beginning ordered the state to pay two hundred and twenty three thousand dollars in fees to the attorneys for the same sex couples that she gave all the trouble he's a department store this is a you know a right wing republican it was doing the you know under the stall thing with the rubber to the foot and all this kind of stuff but the reason i bring you the story is that because he's the republican county chair for left your know but and then this australian woman and it's all just pile and there was another incident and and and this woman is today for the coach they did they did it so she's out here is about what's going on and anchorage where these fringe groups have submitted enough signatures although it hasn't been certified to get on the ballot in anti a transgender ballot measure for the for the fall we will see about that and beyond embarrassment is did nice grady reporter for the new york times who wrote a what i thought was a gratuitous piece few days ago in the paper they've now run these columns by reporters sort of behind the and i don't know what occasioned this look back by her because she doesn't really explain but the column is all about how they debated whether to do it and sally was very private and the end of her column says it all seemed like just what sally ride would not have wanted it was exactly what sally ride wanted she and tam discussed it before her death they wrote the obituary specifically mentioning the surviving partner so it would be mention florida of billy maines he was a really stunningly smart and sharp columnist you might you might not have been eyes on because he was so visible after the orlando shootings of the pulse massacre  campaign which last week convened a meeting with representatives of fifty historically black colleges and universities to discuss issues bt and race issues and what's going on on these campuses and the presidents of the colleges came out of the meeting saying how moved they were by the conversation and how important they thought it was and how  you know openness and real and i you know long overdue but really impressive that they would have that meeting also what about the death of  day marilyn monroe impersonator in santa cruz county seventy nine years old why was she significant death was by the way pulmonary fibrosis she was the st gender transition surgery in america and in  things like that and she was among the st of female impersonators to take hormones and change her gender according to this professor all right well let's transition a segue into international she was a royal turn warm before she was sympathetic to the chinese nationalists so she got a lot of money in her drug running operation from the cia and what is the thing she felt she was the story that i read said look you know where it we're not sure because the terms of how they use pronouns over there it's different but she preferred to be called uncle olive that's why fact that was her preferred name i want to be called on and she spent a lot of time in prison over there because as a as a she dated her brothers girlfriends actresses singers and she ended up as a nun e s a uncle i want a story i had heard before that could be a hell of a movie that would be a movie all right in other news well a lot of stuff going on in india yet the supreme court there is indicated it might take another look back at its judgement that it's ok to ban sodomy so that it could be and in india a trance woman twenty nine years old has been appointed a judge in a mediation court she has a background as a social worker and doing community they were making ground on government housing for the trans community on the other hand now this is the motive and then people with hiv and single moms and people have mental and physical disability this is the modi government and they are drafting a transgender bill and a some people on the go who are more progressive are saying well it doesn't really cover a lot of other civil rights issues and marriage issues to voice issues and all these other kinds of things so not perfect in the mode of government is conservative the you know but they're doing this and speaking of that look what's going on in the philippines i mean you've got the speaker of the house they're introducing a bill to have civil partnerships over there and to legalize divorce there are very catholic country and say only ten the world doesn't have divorced they in in the walk and state i'm making up that pronunciation they have decided to allow gender change on birth certificates by just filling out a form you that way so we're fighting that because our man rodney croom was the leader there is no way because here's the deal even though the australian public can poing vastly support same sex marriage we know that once the right wing starts their advertising campaigns and their voter suppression and there are messing around that we cannot count on the vote actually fulfilling those polls so we want a parliamentary solution to this in nepal they do not have legal same sex marriage but a man who is married to a woman fell in love with a rd gender person and this is ok with the current wife and the current says this is a beginning of a new era in nepal of the isle of man has finalized its nondiscrimination law for sexual orientation and gender identity now that it has gotten royal assen but since the israeli government weighed in on the issue of adoption and is opposing same sex couples opting there was a big protest there there were thousands of protesters we have a picture of it cathedral is going to offer religious ceremonies for same sex marriage and they may be doing gender neutral bathrooms in the schools human rights watch has w surgery for intersex children and says this is got to stop and that was a that's a big step forward for for them and for the for the cause of intersex youth who are just you know parents too much intervention arrogance too much determining the song the book fair knowing l g b two related books were removed after it got started and this is cause the whole thing about censorship over there they were labeled obscene but there's no nudity there's no nothing that's obscene in them this is just and the this is the ongoing fight in hong kong between the locals who are more progressive and the overbearing chinese guy the prime minister of  aid society is holding its annual conference and a lot of it is about the effectiveness of truvada and as pre and post exposure profile access a report out of new york found that prep uses up and it's good but people are using fewer condoms no surprise said and but there's a smaller than you might have expected sexually transmitted infection increase with no condom use because we're always concerned about that and meanwhile other reports say that to people with undetectible virus are not transmitting the myron's things if you have a chair of the new word here into the drugs or not infection to prevent infection because if you have a chevy truck god is not enough in the uninfected or can you take it episodically and the fact is if you are not having sex frequently you can take truvada a few hours before sex and until you stop having sex a day three days a week later and that can prevent transmission that can be enough and that was one of the studies that came out that also we've heard the story of the boy in south africa born with hiv who was treated for forty weeks when he was st born  and then they stopped the treatment and he has been undetectible ever since and the question we don't know i guess they found tiny tiny traces in testing and so the idea is that he still has the virus buried deep somewhere but it's a tiny little reservoir and just the initial treatment at that age of a month or so was enough to suppress the virus this far but that i have to go take additional drugs yes exactly ok report from u n a talks about progress around the world new infections decrease seen drugs are saving lives and preventing transmission but there are threats from decreased funding because if you don't keep treating people then we're to have a rebound at them and everything coming from the white house is cut cut cut cut cry on everything you have but in the labor health and human services and education appropriations bill they restored ryan white funding  to the to the to the budget so congress is restoring most of these funds yes although not increasing the men up meanwhile where is there a problem though soviet union or russia i guess  and the former soviet union russia and the surrounding areas around it new infections are up there's not enough treatment not a good story half of the thirty six million dollars estimated people who are  positive worldwide are on treatment but we need more than half is not enough the united kingdom the government there is going to allow gay men to donate blood within three months of same sex activity again that's a step forward it's her late uncle michael and we have the trailer from the movie it's her investigation into his life because everything was kept pretty secret for a long time hi robert  i'm good i mean i i'm i'm a little sho when he was dying his arms spread out like he was crucified how does it feel to die how does it feel to have your life slipped away from you when you're but one thing one thing one thing and your love of being there on the other side it i'll be tuning in on monday night for that me too eager to see and i've known about this being in the works for a long time and i think it's going to be really important and move on and good but you may not know that but there are l g b t community health centers in some form in thirty seven states and if you would like to read a williams institute report on this you can go to williams institute law dot u c l a got edu all of this is in our email every week and also the a transgender mental health survey is 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to be anthony rock and his part partner will be wilson cruz this is on the new star trek discovery starting in september on c b s all access streaming anthony announced this comic con and coming up on august th on on august th speaking of trouble we don't like to but we have to tony kushner's working on a play about him yes that's true and super gird of the seattle storm thank you and  yeah and soon is the one who has been cause it didn't scare but she finally talked about it and was shocked that she got a good reaction from everybody the it also coming out of the race and chan on and that kind of stuff but he said i realize he's nineteen now is that i realized i was gay when i was sixteen and you know basically was inspired by other people who come out and told me that a moral obligation to do it and why people like kevin spacey  movie coming out on d v d august st on wolf video opening night i can't recommend this is a good movie but if you like back stage broadway musical type things and you can't miss a performance  are really founding mothers and her surviving partner kayla hussan is still around watches game usa honk a and i recently read i should have read much sooner this book barbara getting a pioneer it together and it is fabulous if i can't recommend highly enough the bars are getting on the cover of course barbara at the they've got you know the gatherings that they used to do it independence hall and in philadelphia movie coming out in september battle of the sexes the story of billie jean king and bobby riggs and tennis match being portrayed by emma stone and steve corral and this is a hot movie coming out you are terrible gamblers anybody these folks don't need to stop doing what they're doing they just need to get better  jean didn't do the read used to do it for us and they got he beat he beat margaret court our famous now anti gay activist in australia ryan murphy by the way is developing a new series called pose about l g b t q bal culture although some people are complaining about a white guy taking this on and you know whatever and i saw a wonderful production of arcadia tom stoppard's play at the atlantic theater two it's running through august th if you can catch it and we hope you catch us next week thank you for catching us this week and we'll see you then we hope the news is better