In our 100th episode of the Parent Advocate, Lizette and I bring back their our first guest, Emmy award winning director, Luchina Fisher, and talk about her upcoming feature, The Dads, what life has been like since she first appeared on our show, and advice she has for parents navigating this moment.

In Today’s Topics we cover the end of Tucson Pride, Nicki Minaj going off on a homophobic tirade on Don Lemon, and the Department of Education opening a Title IX investigation into a middle school because a trans student joined the co-ed cheerleading squad.

Finally, in Allies & Assholes we celebrate MacKenzie Scott for her historic $45 million donation to the Trevor Project to support LGBTQ suicide prevention. And we drag Bill Donohue, president of Catholic League, for his unhinged screed about Renee Nicole Good, the mother killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis.

In this episode of the Parent Advocate, Lizette and Stephen air it out about oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Little vs Hecox and BPJ vs West Virginia, ICE murdering people in broad daylight, and LGBTQ+ Americans increasingly retreating “back into the closet” under Donald Trump’s second term. In Allies & Assholes we celebrate the Gender Liberation Movement for its amazing activism on their one year anniversary, and drag the University of Arkansas for rescinding its offer to hire Emily Suski as dean of its law school because of her pro-trans athletes stance.

In this special edition of the Parent Advocate podcast we look back at the pivotal Allies and forgettable Assholes of 2025. Show hosts Lizette and Stephen are joined by their unofficial executive producer, third co-host and Stephen's younger brother, Anthony, to review the 12 most impactful people, institutions and events of the last year.

In this episode of the Parent Advocate podcast, Lizette and I break down BPJ v. West Virginia, the Human Rights Campaign’s class action lawsuit against the Trump administration, and revelations from a former New York Times editor confirming that the paper’s anti-trans shift was deliberate and driven from the top.

In Allies & Assholes, we give snaps—again—to Marlon Wayans for publicly and unapologetically supporting his trans son, and we call out the far-right, racist group Let’s Go Washington for advancing a ballot initiative backed by 400,000 signatures that would subject children to genital inspections as a condition for playing sports.

In this episode of the Parent Advocate, Lizette and Stephen unpack bombshells from the latest Epstein dump and examine how pervasive the depravity actually was, Nicki Minaj selling her soul at TPUSA, and the 60 Minutes episode on detainees at CECOT that the administration didn't want you to see. In Allies & Assholes, we celebrate D.L. Hughley for a surprising clap back at Nicki Minaj, and drag University of Oklahoma student, Samantha Fulnecky for being a genuinely awful person (and by extension the University of Oklahoma for capitulating to said awful person).

In this episode of the Parent Advocate Lizette and Stephen interview transgender youth activist, Brett, and talk being recognized for advocacy, elevating the voice of trans youth in political discourse, and the comfort of boring echo chambers. In Today's Topics, we discuss the FBI's bounties on trans advocates issued by Pam Bondi's DOJ, the House's passage of the latest anti-trans bill criminalizing doctors for providing gender affirming care to youth, and the latest HHS rule seeking to bar Medicaid and Medicare funds to hospitals providing gender affirming care. In Allies & Assholes, we celebrate NY AG Letitia James for standing with trans people, and drag RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz for treating their HHS presser like a reality-show segment.

In this episode of the Parent Advocate podcast, Lizette and Stephen catch up on her son's advocacy award, Stephen's leadership award, and disappointing news from Sundance. In Today's Topics we discuss the city of Arlington removing anti-discrimination protections for trans people, a Trevor Project survey which showed people whose pronouns are respected are less likely to attempt suicide, and the Republican attorney in Florida filing a RICO complaint against WPATH, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Endocrine society for promoting gender affirming care as evidence based science. In Allies & Assholes we celebrate Margaret Cho for calling out Pam Bondi and the DOJ, and drag bleach blonde bad built butch body George representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for introducing an amendment to funding discussions that would criminalize medical practitioners for providing gender affirming care.

In this episode of the Parent Advocate podcast, Lizette and Stephen talk Trump tariffs, impact grants and film festival aspirations. In Today's Topics, we get into Texas’ bathroom ban which recently went into effect, and two bills for Missouri's upcoming legislative session to ban social transition in schools, and banning all gender affirming care in the state - for minors AND adults. In Allies & Assholes we celebrate Cecilia Gentili posthumously for her work on Casa Cecilia an LGBTQ center in Harlem, and we drag Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego for his transphobic, misogynistic and sexist leaked texts.

In this episode of the Parent Advocate, Lizette and Stephen catch each other up on their respective holiday shenanigans, including Lizette wandering the streets of Spain like an oblivious horror movie victim, and Stephen throwing down in the kitchen. We talk Congressional Dems asking Pam Bondi to do her job and enforce federal hate crime statutes, the federal court's smackdown of the DOJ’s request for CHOP patient’s private medical records, and the continued erasure of trans people from federal programs and websites. In Allies & Assholes we uplift New York’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani for selecting trans rabbi and activist Abby Stein to his transition team. And we drag Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy for his campaign to investigate 18 states for permitting trans athletes to participate in girls sports.

In this episode of the Parent Advocate podcast Lizette and Stephen interview Ed Diaz, the owner of a construction business in San Antonio, father of a teenage trans daughter and subject in the upcoming feature-length follow up to the Netflix short, The Dads. Ed talks about the early years supporting his daughter, anti-trans legislation in Texas and the decision to move his family to Canada to protect his daughter.

In Today's Topics we cover the normalization of violence towards women and girls on the right with the Epstein dump, New Zealand banning puberty blockers for youth based on the discredited Cass report, and the 213 House Democrats demanding that Speaker Johnson restore decorum on the House floor and stop allowing members to use dehumanizing slurs to refer to trans people.

Finally, in Allies & Assholes, we highlight gay representative Robert Garcia for introducing a bill to protect the human rights of trans people internationally, and drag former National gymnast Jennifer Sey for trying to bribe female soccer players to turn against trans women.