In this episode, Audrey Irmas Director of the LGBTQ, Gender & Reproductive Justice Project at the ACLU of Southern California Amanda Goad talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about transgender rights in California and the country.

About Amanda Goad:

Amanda is the Audrey Irmas Director of the LGBTQ, Gender & Reproductive Justice Project at the ACLU of Southern California. Amanda was previously a staff attorney in the LGBT & HIV Project of the National ACLU. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network.

Learn more about Amanda Goad via https://www.aclusocal.org/en/Amanda-goad

Podcast Highlights:

“Even as we're focused on implementation and making things even better in California, the trans rights movement at a national level is still unfortunately having to play a lot of defense.”

-       Amanda Goad on the topic of California paving the path for the trans rights movement.

Guest:

Amanda Goad (Audrey Irmas Director of the LGBTQ, Gender & Reproductive Justice Project at the ACLU of Southern California)

Interviewers:

Maddie Bunting (UCR Public Policy Major, Dean’s Chief Ambassador)

Daisy Gonzalez (UCR Public Policy Major, Dean’s Ambassador)

Music by:

C Codaine

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/motif-remix/imagery

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/Minimal_1625

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/Phase

Commercial Links:

The Role of Public Policy in Challenging Times: An Introduction to APPAM

Water Seminar Series: Water Partnerships between Cities and Farms in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley

https://spp.ucr.edu/mpp

California Policy Links:

AB-2218 Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund

SB-132 Corrections

AB-1266 Pupil rights: sex-segregated school programs and activities

Transgender Organization/Agenda Links:

The Trans Policy Agenda

The Trans Agenda for Liberation

This is a production of the UCR School of Public Policy: https://spp.ucr.edu/

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