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KUOW’s Bill Radke talks with Leyla Gheisar and Fred Anex-Schnauss , two non-binary trans teens in Seattle who, despite state protections, still struggle with bathrooms. They also point out racism within the trans community here. I was involved in school athletics, which meant every day I was changing at school … Fred: The nurse's office bathroom was the one that I was told that I was allowed to use. And that meant walking through the nurse's office often when they were with a patient, going in

Bill Radke talks with professor Philip Fernbach, co-author of the new book "The Knowledge Illusion ," about how people don't know nearly as much as they claim, whether it's about politics, science or even how a toilet works. Fernbach has found that we as a species share knowledge, which both helps society as well as gives us a self-inflated sense of how much we actually know. This is one reason, he says, that we may want to be a little more humble next time we think about starting an argument

Bill Radke and Elizabeth Austen mark International Women's Day with a conversation about a poem that echoes across 150 years of activism. Seattle civic poet Claudia Castro Luna performs Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" It's based on a speech Truth gave at a women's rights convention in 1851. Castro Luna responds with a poem of her own reflecting her perspective as an immigrant from El Salvador in " Am I Not An Immigrant? "

Are we seeing more hate crimes this year in our state and our country? That's hard to say because you'd be surprised how hard we make it to report and track hate crimes. Also this hour, we'll tell you stories about one of Washington's longest serving state representatives. Seattle's Helen Sommers died yesterday. And in honor of International Women's Day, Seattle's civic poet recalls Sojourner Truth with a live performance that you'll hear this hour on KUOW.

Bill Radke speaks with U.S. Representative Denny Heck (Wash.-Dist. 10) about his former colleague in the state legislature Helen Sommers, who died Tuesday at the age of 84. Sommers spent 36 years in the state legislature representing Queen Anne and Magnolia.

Bill Radke sits down with child psychologist Alison Gopnik, author of the new book "The Gardener and the Carpenter." Gopnik explains her problems with modern parenting and how to better face the unexpected that comes with raising a child.

What can President Trump's opponents learn from the Tea party? Bill Radke speaks with Ezra Levin, executive director of Indivisible, a group on the political left that's been organizing protests at the town hall meetings that members of Congress hold, and Taylor Budowich, executive director of the Tea Party Express, about lessons that political groups on the left have learned from the early days of the Tea Party.

When news broke yesterday of a new travel ban from President Trump everyone wanted to know will Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson challenge that ban in court too. We talk to him directly about the issue. Also, we'll learn the connection between the way a toilet works and the proliferation of fake news over facts. And what can Democratic activists learn from the strategies of the Tea Party? We'll talk with the head of the left-leaning Indivisible and the director of the Tea Party

Bill Radke talks with KUOW immigration reporter Liz Jones about the potential impact of President Trump's new executive order on immigration. It temporarily bars citizens of six predominantly Muslim countries from being issued new visas to enter the United States. The revised order eliminates Iraq from the list of banned countries, and it no longer requires an indefinite ban on Syrians.

The new Trump travel ban is out today. Washington state successfully challenged the last one. We'll tell you how the new order would work and how our region and state are reacting. Also, Seattle-area tech companies are watching how the Trump administration wants to change visas for skilled foreign workers. And we'll report on a spike in suicides in Washington state prisons.