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Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prolog

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Projects. On this subscriber-only episode of

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5 to 4, Peter,

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Rhiannon, and Michael are talking all

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about trans rights and how the

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Supreme Court could decide the future

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of gender-affirming care. Many states

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have passed anti-trans laws in recent years,

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and as you'll hear, the court has

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agreed to take up a case concerning

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one of them that could have far-reaching

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implications. Meanwhile, former President

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Trump has said that if he's elected again,

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he would make it a

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priority to implement an anti-trans agenda. The

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left-wing gender insanity being pushed on our

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children is an act of

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child abuse. On day one, I

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will revoke Joe Biden's cruel policies

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on so-called gender-affirming care.

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This is 5 to 4, a podcast about

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how much the Supreme Court sucks. Welcome

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to 5 to 4, where we dissect

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and analyze the Supreme Court cases that

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have steered our country toward disaster, like

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Kamala Harris steering a hurricane toward red

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counties. I'm

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Peter. I'm here with Rhiannon. They control

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the weather. That's right. And Michael? Yeah,

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wouldn't it be Doug Emhoff, though,

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who's steering it? I

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don't know who's doing it. I don't know who's doing

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it. He's the closest

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Jew to her, so that would be... That's

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true. I guess that's right. Wait.

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They control the weather is about

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Jewish people? Well, it's not. It's

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not that it's about Jews explicitly. It's

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definitely about Jews. No matter

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what right-wing conspiracy pops

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up, it's always sort of about the Jews.

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Sure. You know what I mean? Yeah. Jews

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control the weather is like an existing

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conspiracy. Right. Oh

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my God. So when they say they control the weather,

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that is at least... It's

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like the implied thing, yeah. Or like it's

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what they've said before. It

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builds on that conspiracy. There's a foundation

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of anti-Semitism, and we're

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going to vote them out.

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That's their solution to the Democrats

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control the weather, and we're going to

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use elections, the electoral process to root

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them out. All

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right. This episode is about

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trans rights. It's another Decision

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2024 episode. We wanted

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to do episodes about issues that are relevant

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to this election. We did

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one on citizenship, and now we're

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doing trans rights. We did an

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episode about trans rights in the summer of 2023 with Erin

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Reed, a journalist who

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monitors anti-trans legislation and

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cases. Since then,

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the politics of being trans in America

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have only gotten more salient and more

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fraught. We were going to have Erin

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on again, but it was my job

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to email her. That's when the ADHD

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really becomes a problem on this podcast.

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If I'm being honest, I just let this one

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drop, but I did rely

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on her work for much of

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the episode's content. Shout

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out to Erin. Yeah, thank you, Erin.

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Amazing work over there on her sub-stack.

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Yeah. Yes, thank you, Erin. We'll

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get you next time. In

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2023, you were seeing a wave

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of anti-trans bills in various

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states, and you were also

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seeing legal challenges

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by LGBTQ advocates

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and other groups generally arguing

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that these laws were unconstitutional

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violations of equal protection principles.

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There was an initial string of

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successes, but that

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has quickly given way to even

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more aggressive anti-trans legislation and a

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string of wins for conservatives in

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court, as well as

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an anti-trans law finally being brought

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up to the Supreme Court. Yeah.

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So, we wanted to give of a lay

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of the land here and then dig into

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that Supreme Court case. Yeah, you

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know, a couple of episodes. Hey, folks, if you

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