A Texas hospital stops providing gender-affirming care for fear of prosecution, Logo TV presents a 3-part Trans Youth Town Hall & we salute Josephine Baker for our Women’s Herstory Spotlight – Tuesday, March 8, 2022
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A Texas hospital stops providing gender-affirming care for fear of prosecution, Logo TV presents a 3-part Trans Youth Town Hall & we salute Josephine Baker for our Women’s Herstory Spotlight – Tuesday, March 8, 2022

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The nation’s largest children’s hospital which so happens to be located in Texas has announced its stopped providing gender-affirming care for fear of prosecution. Logo TV is presenting a 3-part Trans Youth Town Hall & we salute Josephine Baker for our Women’s Herstory Spotlight.

00:00 – Welcome & Intro

00:34 – The Qube Ad

01:12 – Intro Music

01:52 – The nation’s largest children’s hospital which so happens to be located in Texas has announced its stopped providing gender-affirming care for fear of prosecution

03:27 – Logo TV is presenting a 3-part Trans Youth Town Hall

05:01 – We salute Josephine Baker for Women’s Herstory Month

7:26 – Anna’s Got A Word

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Nation’s largest children’s hospital pauses gender-affirming care after Texas governor’s threats

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/03/nations-largest-childrens-hospital-pauses-gender-affirming-care-texas-governors-threats/

Logo TV

JOSEPHINE BAKER 1906 TO  –1975
https://www.queerportraits.com/bio/baker

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Family, this is your favorite queer radio personality Anna DeShawn here with our queer news from today. 

The nation’s largest children’s hospital which so happens to be located in Texas has announced its stopped providing gender-affirming care for fear of prosecution. Logo TV is presenting a 3-part Trans Youth Town Hall & we salute Josephine Baker for our Women’s Herstory Spotlight. 

Our leading story for today is coming out of Texas. As you all know we’ve been covering the transphobic rhetoric, witch hunts and policies the Attorney General and Governor have been enacting across the state. Well the nation’s largest children’s hospital that so happens to be located in Texas and so happens to also provide gender-affirming care has announced it has stopped providing those services. They’ve stopped citing orders from the governor himself to investigate transition-related care as child abuse. The hospital had this to say, “The mission of Texas Children’s Hospital is to create a healthier future for all children, including transgender children, within the bounds of the law…This step was taken to safeguard our health care professionals and impacted families from potential criminal legal ramifications.” Well the Attorney General got a kick out of that and decided to tweet, “Glad to hear that today Texas Children’s Hospital halted their child-abuse procedures.” What a butt hole. Now y’all remember what I reported last week about the Texas family being investigated for having a trans teenager well a judge has temporarily blocked that investigation. Thank God for that but families are definitely living in fear. The Transgender Resoure Center of New Mexico is reporting that families are calling from Texas to see about potentially moving there for safety. We are living in some dangerous times. 

For a brighter light, Logo TV is presenting a Trans Youth Town Hall hosted by Raquel Willis. This is a discussion about recent attempts to ban gender-affirming health care for minors. The 3-part series is set to debut March 29-31. So lock it into your calendar now. The clip Logo posted is really powerful and I wanted to play the intro so you can get a feel for how good this is going to be, take a listen. I’ve included a link to the video in the show notes if you want to watch it in its entirety. 

Now it is women’s herstory month & I will be sharing some of my favorite women who have made profound impacts on the world around them. The inequities women still face today are awful from the wage gap to attaining leadership positions to #MeToo. The journey has been long since the suffrage movement and there is still such a long way to go. So, telling these stories & learning more about these icons brings me so much joy. 

So with that, we salute Josephine Baker. As told by Queer Portraits; Josephine was a dancer, singer, actress, and the toast of Frace, who became the first Black international superstar, and activist, and a spy. She saw a bit of success in New York City, but her career didn’t take off until she traveled to Paris at the age of 19. There, she was an instant hit. In 1937, Baker became a French citizen, and when WWII broke out shortly after, she proved her loyalty. Baker became a spy for the French government, collecting information from unsuspecting German officials at parties. And when Germany invaded France, she used her celebrity to sneak messages across the border, written in invisible ink on her sheet music, or pinned to her underwear. After the war, she was awarded the Criox de guerre, and turned her attention to the Civil Rights movement in America. She toured the United States in the 1950s, refusing to perform for segregated audiences, while writing articles and giving lectures about the racism she encountered. She spoke at the March on Washington … did you know that? and was unofficially offered leadership of the movement after Dr. King’s assassination. She turned it down because of her children, all 12 of them, adopted from all over the world, and referred to as “The Rainbow Tribe.” She also had four husbands during her life (the first when she was only 13), and a number of affairs with women, including Frida Kahlo and Colette—though she kept these relationships a secret. Baker remained a popular and influential performer, and starred in a sold out revue in Paris to celebrate her 50 years in show business, just days before her death.

Let’s close out the show with a quote from Les Brown. I’m a fan of his motivational speeches and he always drops some gems. Well here is one of his quotes, “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” Ohhhh fear will hold you hostage and cause you to have so much doubt in yourself and your dreams. It can cause those negative thoughts to start percolating and before you know it you begin to believe them. You really have to prepare your mind and release that fear and doubt. You are enough. That dream was given to you & no one else. Till tomorrow, family. Peace.  

Sources

Nation’s largest children’s hospital pauses gender-affirming care after Texas governor’s threats

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/03/nations-largest-childrens-hospital-pauses-gender-affirming-care-texas-governors-threats/

Logo TV

JOSEPHINE BAKER 1906 TO  –1975

https://www.queerportraits.com/bio/baker

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