Corinne opens this episode with a story from her years working in advertising — a suicide-prevention campaign that looked provocative and well-intentioned at the time, but reads very differently through the eyes of a psychologist. It's a way into a larger question: what happens when people with very little understanding of an issue are handed very large microphones?

From there, the episode works through several current stories shaping the transgender debate, including a tennis pioneer reconsidering her position on transgender athletes in women's sports, a Kansas fight over driver's license sex markers, Texas ending gender-affirming medical care in state prisons, school policies on names and pronouns, and the ongoing controversy in women's professional basketball. Corinne's throughline: the goal isn't demanding agreement, it's demanding that people understand what they're talking about before turning complicated medical, psychological, and legal questions into slogans.

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