The Parent Advocate Podcast

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 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 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 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.

In this episode of the Parent Advocate, Lizette and I catch up after a month apart and bring each other up to speed on all things parenting, advocacy, and current events. We talk homesickness on the 7 month anniversary of Lizette’s flight from the US, and celebrate the milestone of submitting the dads documentary to the Sundance and SXSW film festivals. In Today’s Topics, we cover Democratic strategists David Axelrod, James Carville and David Plouffe throwing trans people under the bus, the Department of Health and Human Services’ refusal to permit Medicaid or Medicare coverage for gender affirming care for transgender minors, and young Republicans exposed as racists, misogynists and homophobes in text messages. Finally, in Allies & Assholes, we celebrate Robert DeNiro for supporting his trans daughter Airyn, and drag JK Rowling for her transphobic response to Glamour UK’s cover celebrating Women of the Year.

In this week's episode Lizette and Stephen catch up after the Colorado and Utah shootings and discuss radicalization, white male fragility, and the continued scapegoating of the trans community for all that ails America. We celebrate the three families suing the Trump administration as this week's Allies, and give double middle fingers to Utah Governor Spencer Cox for "hoping and praying" that the Utah killer wasn't "one of us" and the Wall Street Journal and its trash journalism for publishing information about the "transgender ideology" of the shooter.