In June 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that marriage is a fundamental right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment that must be afforded to same-sex couples.

Since then, anti-LGBTQ activists, with funding from creepy right-wing billionaires and help from Republican state legislators in gerrymandered “red” states, have sought new ways to marginalize and bully LGBTQ people. To fracture the unity of LGBTQ people and their allies, the legislative attacks have targeted transgender people. First manufactured concerns about bathroom access, next trans people’s ability to participate in sports, and most recently, attacks on transgender youths and their bodies with the increasing trend of criminalizing trans medicine.

How has the medical community responded to the criminalization of practices, which are the standard of care for gender dysphoria, and the insertion of legislators who want to prohibit parents of trans youth from making decisions about their children’s medical care?

In this episode, Michigan State Professor stef shuster, who wrote the book wrote Trans Medicines - The emergence and practice of treating gender, joins host Mary Whiteside.

*Since recording, the American Medical Association has come of opposing any and all criminal penalties for patients and families attempting to access gender-affirming care and protecting physicians from legal threats for providing care.

**Also, several important Court decisions have come out stopping laws banning or limiting gender-affirming care from taking effect. Huge wins for the trans community! However, these favorable decisions will undoubtedly be appealed, so the fight is not over.

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Sources

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11199-020-01131-3)

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2020/toxic-masculinity-is-unsafe-for-men

https://socialscience.msu.edu/news-events/news/archives/2020/2020-06-16.html

​​https://socialscience.msu.edu/research/thematic/sgm/journal.html

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2783699

https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2022/endocrine-society-alarmed-at-criminalization-of-transgender-medicine

Article on Willie Simmons: https://www.essence.com/news/willie-simmons-life-prison-alabama-habitual-offender/

Here in America, the number of people we choose to incarcerate makes up 25% of the world’s prison population. And that statistic was driven by mainly by state and local “tough on crime” prosecutors.

Prosecutors have a huge amount of power and control over who get criminally charged, who doesn’t, what crimes get pursued, and what crimes get ignored, who gets a plea bargain, and who gets denied or offered rehabilitative diversion programs.

If you want to change the system the fastest way is to become a reform District Attorney. But while that may be popular with the majority of voters in some areas, even these officials face a ton of well-funded resistance.

In this episode, Justin Kollar, who has been working as and for the Reform Prosecutor Movement since 2012 joins host Mary Whiteside to discuss the ways prosecutors can use their power to advance justice and divert resources to truly help communities and make them safer.

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https://fairandjustprosecution.org/about-fjp/our-work-and-vision/

https://www.civilbeat.org/beat/kauai-prosecutor-stepping-down-for-nonprofit-gig/

https://fairandjustprosecution.org/about-fjp/our-team/

Article on Willie Simmons: https://www.essence.com/news/willie-simmons-life-prison-alabama-habitual-offender/

The Constitution protects our right to an impartial jury. Still, the normal process of selecting a jury often lets attorneys' unconscious or conscious biases infect jury selection. If a juror’s biases are undetected or dismissed as something that can be set aside, they can inflect the verdict leading to wrongful convictions.

Biases are habits of thought or patterns of thinking that include preferences, inclinations, or just impressions. Biases can include cognitive shortcuts that can lead to wrong assumptions or errors in judgment. Judging a past event using what you know today is hindsight bias. Confirmation bias is only seeking information to confirm a prejudgment. All of these are impediments to a fair jury.

The stakes could not be higher for an innocent person accused of a crime. If a jury fills in gaps in the government’s proof with stereotypes, hunches, and vague bad feelings, then the

In this episode, trial attorney Rhian Jones joins host Mary Whiteside to discuss the dangers of hidden biases on a jury and ideas to make jury selection better and fairer.

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Rhian Jones

• http://etksdefense.com/attorneys/rhian-jones/

Peremptory Challenges

• https://www.npr.org/2021/09/06/1034556234/arizonas-supreme-court-eliminates-peremptory-challenges
• https://civiljuryproject.law.nyu.edu/understanding-bias-preserving-peremptory-challenges-preventing-their-discriminatory-use-and-providing-fairer-and-more-impartial-juries/

https://abovethelaw.com/2015/11/criminally-yours-dont-eliminate-peremptory-challenges/ Article on Willie Simmons: https://www.essence.com/news/willie-simmons-life-prison-alabama-habitual-offender/