LGBTQ+ and Disability Pride Special: Ableist Anti-Trans Laws
Channel: Not Dead Yet USA
Date: 2023-07-05

CW: ableism, suicide, transphobia

As we move from LGBTQIA+ Pride month to Disability Pride Month, we explore an important intersection currently facing disabled transgender people: access to gender affirming care being denied on the basis of disability. We chat with Jen Insight, a trans writer and video creator, about gender affirming care. We also talk to Larkin Taylor-Parker, Litigation Director at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, about the details of this discriminatory legislation. Finally, we discuss how these laws increase the risk of suicidality in trans disabled people and how a policy of assisted suicide increases that risk even more. 

All sources used and mentioned in this episode can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TQQcdHLT4DIRqvZlE3cd8c_Y81lFx60OuYSuSP2GMIQ/edit?usp=sharing 

Follow Jen Insight @jen_insight on Twitter and Instagram and @jeninsight  on YouTube. Follow the Autistic Self Advocacy Network @autselfadvocacy on Twitter and @autisticselfadvocacy on Instagram.