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The Right's War on Gender is Also a War on Government / Paisley Currah

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The very existence of transgender people undermines the idea that there's this naturally existing gender hierarchy. But what I want to really have everyone understand is that the attack on transgender people, the way it's done in terms of the definition of sex that every agency in the federal government has to use is actually a way to kind of eviscerate the administrative state—the part of the state that is supposed to attend to the health and the wellbeing of the population and try to figure out how to make people live healthier lives.

Paisley Currah joins us to discuss his New Yorker piece, "Donald Trump's War on Gender Is Also a War on Government." "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.

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Guest

Paisley Currah

Paisley Currah is a Professor of Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and of Political Science, Women’s & Gender Studies, and English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In 2024-25, he is a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.