2433 - Trans Rights Under Trump; Inside The Manosphere w/ Katelyn Burns, Jamie Tahsin, Matt Shea

It's an EmMajority Report Thursday! She speaks with Katelyn Burns, co-owner of The FlyTrap, columnist at MSNBC & Xtra Magazine, co-host of the Cancel Me Daddy podcast, to discuss the Trump administration's actions against the trans community. Then she speaks with writer & filmmaker Jamie Tahsin and freelance reporter Matt Shea to discuss their recent book Clown World: Four Years Inside Andrew Tate's Manosphere. First, Emma runs through updates on the Senate’s confirmation of RFK and Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s attacks on the DOE, Israel’s escalating violence in the West Bank, the Trump Administration’s pivot against Ukraine, rocketing egg prices, Trump’s deferred resignation, NIH’s financial freeze, Elon’s NASA takeover, the transfer of low-risk migrants to Guantanamo, and Canada’s liberal resurgence, before diving a little deeper into RFK’s confirmation to lead HHS. Katelyn Burns then joins, diving right into the devastating moment of confusion and fear facing trans people in the US in the wake of myriad executive orders from Trump targeting everything from access to gender-affirming care to gender markers on federal IDs, zeroing in on the latter as she and Emma unpack how passports have served (since the Obama Administration) as a central safety line for trans people in red states, not only allowing them freedom of movement in line with their identity but providing security against employment discrimination and more. After expanding on the role of unions in bolstering protections for their trans workers (particularly in the realm of healthcare) and the genuinely dangerous implications of Trump’s executive order on the ability of the government to find and help missing trans children, Burns looks to the role of mainstream liberal media – with a specific focus on the New York Times – in taking vitriolic anti-trans bigotry from fringe to mainstream, legitimizing all of the policies that they decry as inhumane now that they’re coming from Trump, wrapping up with the emphasis that the movement for trans rights has not been radicalizing – with their asks the same today as they were half a century ago – but rather the backlash to them has. Jamie Tahsin and Matt Shea then walk Emma through their investigative work into Andrew Tate and the Manosphere, first stepping back to assess what the Manosphere is – an industry capitalizing on the alienation and isolation of young men to bring them into a sphere of exploiting women, be it the pickup artists of the aughts or the red pill influencers of today – and how Andrew Tate was able to take it to the mainstream level with the help of millions of dollars and Social Media’s obsession with controversy, pushing himself to be, at certain points in 2022, the most googled man on the internet, pushing a gaudy and extravagant lifestyle grounded in a perverse, misogynistic, and wildly patriarchal ideology. Expanding on this, Tahsin and Shea dissect the actual business structure of Tate’s empire, employing scammy and MLM-esque practices from video courses to a physical “test” in the wilderness of Romania, all built around training and ingratiating men into the world of finding vulnerable women to be groomed and sex trafficked, while his strong connections to political forces (largely the Trump regime in the US) legitimized this push to turn the aggrievements of the patriarchy into a full-scale political movement. After expanding on some of the major revelations of their investigation – from the conscious pride around the promulgation of sex trafficking tactics to the insane characters Tate surrounded himself with – Matt and Jamie wrap up with the emphasis that Tate’s scam sought not just to groom women into lives of exploitation, but young men into lives of hate, fear, and insecurity.

And in the Fun Half: Emma is joined by Brandon Sutton and Matt Binder as they talk with El Connopcion from San Anton’ as he unpacks the fragility of fascism and masculinity, unpack Elon’s plummeting popularity, and watch Democrats pivot their messaging to the party’s… stakeholders? Scott Jennings defends Israel’s most recent genocidal maneuvers, and Fox News blows up over Federal and teachers’ unions attempting to protect their workers’ jobs. They also touch on the embarrassment of being pulled into the alt-right, Democrats’ refusal to message, and the importance of getting Eric Adams out of office, plus, your calls and IMs!

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