A timely interview with Chastity Bowick, the new Executive Director of the Marsha P. Johnson Institute. This interview has been edited for clarity and may differ slightly from the audio version.

I’ve been asked a lot by my friends lately what I think of the state of trans rights in the US, and I always say that things are certainly very bad. The government has never before taken such a widespread effort to oppress trans people throughout the country.

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