Sarah Kate Interview 1

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00:00 Over 500 pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation

00:03 proposed already this year, many passed.

00:07 First of all, is this the worst year

00:08 since you became CEO in 2014

00:11 of seeing these kinds of attacks

00:14 and targeted legislation against LGBTQ people?

00:19 - Absolutely, yeah, no doubt.

00:23 I think it is on record the worst legislative session

00:27 against LGBTQ folks,

00:30 even when we were in the fight for marriage equality.

00:33 I think when I started nine years ago,

00:39 we were on the precipice of advancing marriage equality.

00:43 So there was a great hope and a new world

00:48 and a brighter world and a brighter future,

00:50 and it's pretty dark right now.

00:52 - It is very dark.

00:54 What do you attribute?

00:57 It just seems like this is a very coordinated attack

01:01 and it's been coordinated particularly

01:04 against transgender kids and healthcare for them

01:09 and then drag queens.

01:11 Why do you, like, why is there

01:14 almost identical legislation going through

01:17 all of these Republican-led states?

01:20 - Oh, it's not even almost, it is identical.

01:24 It's a form, actually, and they fill in the state

01:27 and the legislators.

01:30 I think, here's what I think,

01:32 is that two things are at play.

01:34 One is six years ago,

01:37 most Americans didn't know about transgender folks, right?

01:41 There has been an increase in visibility,

01:44 which is something that we do here at GLAAD, right?

01:47 It's about storytelling.

01:49 It's about telling trans and gender nonconforming stories

01:52 through Hollywood, in the news and media journalism, right?

01:56 So I think there's a heightened awareness than ever before,

02:01 and there's growing acceptance.

02:03 So I think it was right before Caitlyn Jenner came out,

02:08 we asked Americans if they knew anyone who was transgender.

02:12 6% of Americans said they knew someone who was transgender.

02:16 Here we are now, 2023,

02:19 30% of Americans say they know someone who's transgender.

02:23 Still very small, but much larger.

02:26 I mean, I'm not a math person,

02:28 but if you did the math on that,

02:29 I'd say, you know, you'd NX that or something.

02:33 That being said, 70% of Americans

02:39 don't know transgender people,

02:41 and where they're getting their information from right now

02:45 is through these political folks

02:48 who are using our community to create fear,

02:53 to raise money, to bolster their careers

02:58 at the expense of the trans

03:01 and gender nonconforming community.

03:03 And they are filling it, and what journalists are doing,

03:07 and not on purpose, I really don't believe so,

03:10 is that they're regurgitating what a Ron DeSantis says

03:13 or Greg Abbott is saying.

03:15 And so that's becoming reality,

03:17 or that's becoming the perception of all of these people

03:21 who don't know transgender people.

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