Unfortunately, the Big Story is about how multiple Blue state health care providers are closing their gender affirming care clinics for transgender children and youth despite there being no federal law mandating closures; they’re just caving to fear of federal subpoenas and investigations. Horrible! The Big Interview is with award-winning journalist Varsha Bansal who reports on interviewing Jo Ellis, a transgender VA National Guard helicopter pilot who was wrongly accused of causing the Blackhawk-American Airlines crash in January 2025. We also have a larger conversation around how trans people are being set up as violent scapegoats for purposes of making our erasure easier.