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Episode 21: The Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee’s Ban on Gender Affirming Care for Minors
Hello and welcome to episode 21 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on June 18, 2025. In this episode we have bad news from the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 decision, the court upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. This is terrible news, not just for transgender children in Tennessee, but for children…
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Episode 20: Housekeeping
Welcome to episode 20 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on June 16, 2025. The subject for today is about the podcast itself. The podcast has been available in video form on YouTube and in audio form as a podcast. So far, it’s the video form of the podcast that has been the format that…
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Episode 19: A Brief History of Pride
Welcome to episode 19 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on June 6, 2025. In this episode we’re going to do a brief history on the origins of Pride and talk about why it’s so important to the LGBT+ community. Let’s start by talking about what we mean by Pride. Or at least what it…
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Episode 18: Ten Years of Same-Sex Marriage
Hello and welcome to episode 18 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on May 24, 2025. It’s been about ten years since same sex marriage was legal throughout the United States. In today’s episode, we’re going to look at the impact of that decision on my own life. In October 2014, Lauri and I had…
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Episode 17: May 2025 Shenandoah County School Update
Hello, and welcome to episode 17 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on May 13, 2025. The topic for today’s episode is the Shenandoah County School Board meeting of May 8th and specifically the January changes the board made to policy INB on teaching about controversial subjects and the proposed changes they were considering in…
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Episode 16: Bathroom Bills
Hello and welcome to episode 16 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on April 6th, 2025. Today we are going to be talking about the regressive obsession with bathroom bills and their consequences. Bathroom bills are one of the fads in regressive circles these days. They seek to keep transgender people from bathrooms appropriate for…
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Episode 15: March 2025 Shenandoah County School Update
On Thursday, March 13th, 2025, the Shenandoah County Scool Board had their monthly meeting. Based on the agenda there were no planned votes on anything related to the LGBT community. However, the proposed revision to policy INB on teaching about controversial issues was on the “informational agenda”. This seems to consist of the Superintendent reading…
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Episode 14: Asexuality
In this episode, we talk with Annalise, who explains asexuality and the broad spectrum of ways this can apply to people.
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Episode 13: How Some Christians Justify Discriminating Against Transgender People
Welcome to episode 13 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on March 5th 2025. In this episode we’re going to look at the arguments some Christians use to justify their bias against transgender people and whether those arguments make any sense or whether they are a smokescreen. When I use actual quotes from the Bible,…
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Episode 12: Evolution of an Ally
In this episode, I speak with Jason Rittenour. Jason is a member of the PFLAG Woodstock group. We discuss his journey growing up surrounded by the systemic homophobia in our society to someone who has become an LGBT ally as an adult.
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Episode 11: Shenandoah County School Update, February 2025
Welcome to episode 11 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on February 14, 2025. Most of this episode will deal with recent events in Shenandoah County but before I get to that I want to mention some news that came out on the afternoon of the 13th. According to The Washington Post and other news…
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Episode 10: Trump’s Fifth Transgender Ban – Athletics
Welcome to episode 10 of The Spectrum. This was recorded on February 12, 2025. In this episode we will look at Donald Trump’s continuing effort to erase transgender people from existence. This is about his fifth executive order targeting transgender people. This one is focused on transgender athletes. Donald’s fifth transgender ban was issued of…