The Illegal Trans Woman

The Illegal Trans Woman

Is America at risk of erasing transgender people? Host Ellie Krug tackles this urgent question in her show, The Illegal Trans Woman, while confronting the growing threats to the LGBTQ+ community and the very existence of trans and gender variant individuals. A transgender woman herself, Ellie is a passionate advocate for her community, dedicated to fighting back against intolerance while fostering understanding and compassion for all humans. With a focus on bridging differences, Ellie invites diverse perspectives, aiming to educate and unify. However, when faced with efforts to erase her community, Ellie becomes a fierce fighter and an unrelenting voice for justice. Tune in Saturdays at 4 PM for thought-provoking conversations that challenge, empower, and inspire action for a more inclusive world. And podcast the show anytime on your favorite app!

Episodes

The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 53: The One-Year Anniversary

December 8, 2025 • 47 mins
It’s the show’s first anniversary! We do a review of the year, highlighting various interviews with the likes of U of Chicago behavioral scientist Nick Eppley and friend-of-the-show, Vanessa Tenneyson. The Big Interview is with Bella and Trish Tousignant, who talk about how their 39-year marriage not only survived, but blossomed when Bella came out…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 52 (Encore): When Politics Trumps Science (Again)

December 1, 2025 • 46 mins
This episode originally aired May 3, 2025: It’s an Ellie’s Talking Head Show! The Big Story is about how Robert Kennedy Jr.’s HHS has issued a report on gender affirming care for transgender youth and—surprise—it claims that that crucial medical care is harming children! Other stories have transgender people participating in the funeral for Pope…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 51: Passports, Subpoenas, and the Power of a Note

November 24, 2025 • 47 mins
We begin this Ellie’s Talking Head show by remembering President John F. Kennedy on the 62nd anniversary of his assignation and contrasting his leadership with that of Donald Trump. The first Big Story is about how the Trump administration is preventing transgender and nonbinary persons from obtaining passports that match their gender identities. Big Story…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 50: The 50th Show: TDOR & Moms for Liberty

November 15, 2025 • 47 mins
We’ve hit the half-century mark with Episode No. 50! I begin by highlighting Transgender Day of Remembrance, November 20th every year, and share about how TGDOR came into existence (in 1999, to honor transgender and nonbinary persons lost to violence or suicide in the preceding year). This November 20th, please tell a trans or nonbinary…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 49: A Rebuke to MAGA, An Attack from the Courts

November 10, 2025 • 48 mins
It’s an Ellie’s Talking Head show, and we start with a just-delivered 6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision holding that an Ohio school district could not discipline students who claimed that their religious beliefs prevented them from according pronouns to transgender students that align with their gender identity. In other words, under the guise of…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 48: RFK Jr.’s HHS Targets Trans Youth

November 3, 2025 • 48 mins
This week’s Big Story is how the Trump Dept. of HHS plans to issue three rules that will bar federal Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements to any hospital/medical facility that provides gender affirming care to any trans person younger than 18 (and in one case, 19). This is essentially an attack on all blue state hospital…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 47: Two Significant Wins for Trans Rights

October 26, 2025 • 47 mins
We split the Big Story between two stories; one is about a landmark civil rights case where the MN Supreme Court held in favor of an adult female trans weightlifter who was barred from competing with other women due to her gender identity. The other case is about an Oregon federal judge ruling to block…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 46: Fear, Allies, and Trans Athletes

October 20, 2025 • 47 mins
It’s No Kings Day No. 2 and I urge listeners to get out and exercise their First Amendment rights! The Big Story is about the current status of a federal lawsuit seeking to block MN transgender student athletes from competing on teams that align with their gender identity. (So far, we’re winning!). The Big Interview…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 45: The Power of Coming Out Day

October 13, 2025 • 47 mins
Today is National Coming Out Day, to honor members of the LGBTQ+ community who have come out to the world as their true, authentic selves. For this week’s Big Story, I talk about the historic origins of NCOD dating to October 11, 1988. The Big Interview is with Orion Rummler from The 19th who talks…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 44: Denied Care Trans Veterans and the Fight for Dignity

October 6, 2025 • 47 mins
Our Big Story this week is how the Veterans Administration has prohibited its therapists and doctors from providing referral letters for transgender Vets who seek to obtain gender confirmation surgery using their own funds or via private insurance. Without a referral letter, a surgeon who performs confirmation surgery won’t go forward (such letters confirm the…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 43: From Courts to Kindness: Trans Resistance and Community Support

September 30, 2025 • 45 mins
This week’s Big Story is about transgender people fighting back—two female trans athletes suing universities and the NCAA for denying them the right to compete, and five trans youth/their families and adults suing the University of PA Medical Center for denying them gender affirming care. Good for them and for the brave lawyers taking their…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 42: Scapegoating Trans Lives

September 24, 2025 • 42 mins
This is my first chance to talk about Charlie Kirk’s murder—how horrific, and my condolences to his family and friends! Violence is never the answer! I talk about how MAGA desperately wants to tie transgender people to Kirk’s murder, and they’re doing so by asserting that the alleged shooter was poisoned by the ideology of…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 41: Fighting for Trans Youth: Courts, Care, and Challenges Ahead

September 15, 2025 • 46 mins
With this Ellie’s Talking Head show we cover how Boston Children’s Hospital convinced a federal judge in my old stomping grounds (Boston is where I learned to be a civil trial lawyer) to quash a Trump DOJ subpoena that sought to intimidate BCH into dropping its gender affirming care program for trans kids/youth. Way to…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 40: Debunking Trans Myths and Defending Queer Students

September 8, 2025 • 45 mins
We begin with the Big Story of how some public school systems are fighting back against Trump’s DOJ/Department of Education edicts that seek to bar trans students from restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. Some  districts in Virginia are suing and in Denver, the school superintendent, Dr. Alex Morrero, has issued…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 39: After the Shooting: What’s at Stake for Trans Lives

September 1, 2025 • 46 mins
It’s a very somber show in the wake of the Annunciation Catholic church/school shooting—my heart goes out to the victims of that senseless attack! What horror for them and for our community! However, the attack, by a transgender person, may turn out to be the watershed moment MAGA extremists have been looking for; they could…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 38: Ellie’s Talking Head: Chilling Care, Chilling Fear

August 25, 2025 • 45 mins
On this Ellie’s Talking Head show we begin with how Trump’s MAGA DOJ has subpoenaed multiple Blue state hospitals seeking confidential patient information of transgender children and youth who have received gender affirming care. It’s all an effort to chill those hospitals from providing such care. I also share an influencer’s take about Maslow’s Hierarchy…
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Ellie Krug with Matt – August 19, 2025

August 19, 2025 • 22 mins
Ellie Krug is the host of The Illegal Trans Woman, airing at 4 PM Saturdays on AM950 and also a noted author having just released her new memoir Being Ellen: A Second Chance at Lifw.
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 37: Trans Lives in Uniform and on the Ice

August 18, 2025 • 48 mins
The Big Story is about the US Air Force retracting pension-award letters to a dozen transgender service members with 15-18 years of service who were being drummed out of the military due to Trump’s ban. The Air Force said it had “made a mistake” in granting the service members pensions; my take is that it…
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Dr. Samuel Huneke with guest host Ellie Krug

August 11, 2025 • 44 mins
Dr. Samuel Huneke, Associate Professor of History at George Mason, joins us monthly and today he’s in conversation with our guest host: Ellie Krug. Get Samuel’s books and learn more about his work here: samuelcloweshuneke.com. Check out Ellie’s weekly show The Illegal Trans Woman weekly Saturdays at 4pm on AM950 and everywhere you get your…
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The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 36: Revisiting with Pastor Luke Springer (Encore)

August 11, 2025 • 45 mins
This episode originally aired March 8, 2025: The Big Story is about politicians who do the right thing (Senate Democrats who blocked a national trans youth sports ban) and those who don’t (CA Gov. Gavin Newsom, who in a podcast interview with right wing pundit Charlie Kirk threw trans athletes under the bus). The Big…
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