Your Reproductive Advocacy Must Include Trans Care With Peppermint & Chase Strangio

Your favorite Buzzkill duo are back at it with hot takes, hot guests, and plenty of RAGE! What went down this week in Abobolandia? Well… let’s just start with a win—Ken Paxton: 0 Texas abortion provider, Dr. Margaret Carpenter: 1. HUZZAH! Also, what happens in West Virginia certainly won’t stay in West Virginia—we’re laying out the latest terrible, horrible, no good, very bad decision curbing access to medication abortion from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in West Virginia *barf*. AND we’re making some sense of the clear-as-swamp water Kentucky case that makes us wonder—what do frozen eggs have to do with the right to sue?

 

GUEST ROLL CALL!

Joining the Buzzkills this week is Chase Strangio, Co-Director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project, to break down the intersections of abortion care and trans care, and how the media (NOT SCIENCE) has literally done all of the work in forming anti-trans bias.

 

PLUS!!! Showing up to FBK with the palate cleanser we all need is the FABU and ICONIC actress and recording artist Peppermint! She’s showing us what trans resilience and JOY truly look like, and how she finds the strength to keep fighting.

 

Scared? Got questions about the continued assault on your reproductive rights? THE FBK LINES ARE OPEN! Just call or text [phone], leave your questions or concerns, and Lizz and Moji will pick a few to address on the pod!

 

Times are heavy, but knowledge is power, y’all. We gotchu. 

 

OPERATION SAVE ABORTION: Sign up for virtual 2025 OSA workshop on August 9th! You can still join the 10,000+ womb warriors fighting the patriarchy by listening to our past Operation Save Abortion pod series and Mifepristone Panel by clicking HERE for episodes, your toolkit, marching orders, and more.

 

HOSTS:

Lizz Winstead IG: @LizzWinstead Bluesky: @LizzWinstead.bsky.social

Moji Alawode-El IG: @Mojilocks Bluesky: @Mojilocks.bsky.social

 

SPECIAL GUESTS:

Chase Strangio IG: @Chasestrangio Bluesky: @Chasestrangio.bsky.social

Peppermint IG: @Peppermint247 TikTok: @Therealpeppermint247

 

GUEST LINKS:

WATCH: “Heightened Scrutiny” Documentary

ACLU Website IG: @ACLU_nationwide Bluesky: @ACLU.org

DONATE: The ACLU LGBTQ & HIV Project

READ: Andrea Gibson’s Poetry

WATCH: Enigma on HBO

Peppermint’s Documentary “A Deeper Love”

Peppermint’s Website

Peppermint’s Linktree

Pep & Hugh's Queer History 101 Book Club

READ:  Transgender History by Susan Stryker

READ: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

READ: So Many Stars by Caro De Robertis

READ: Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace

 

NEWS DUMP:

Respectful Treatment of Unborn Remains Act of 2025

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