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Ep. 12: On Trump and trans-people, Berlin's anti-AFD protest, and the trouble with Die Linke

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Suzy Vogenthaler, David Faes help us dispel the liberal confusion over the Obama administration's reforms for trans-people. Laurie and Pamela sit with Dorna Darabi for a report of the recent anti-AFD protest in Berlin with over 150,000 participants. And Stefan Hain and Betül Yildrim talk to Pamela at the Freie University coffee break about the divisions within Die Linke, the decline of the Social Democratic Party and German politics after Merkel. For more on trans politics see David Faes's articles for the new Platypus Review, issue 111. (1) "Transgender liberation? A movement whose time has passed" https://platypus1917.org/2018/11/02/transgender-liberation-a-movement-whose-time-has-passed/ (2) "#MeToo and the millennial sex panic" https://platypus1917.org/2018/11/02/metoo-and-the-millennial-sex-panic/ For more on the German left listen to the recording of our panel in Frankfurt, from 07.12.2017, entitled "What is Socialism?" Speakers were invited to reflect on the history of social democracy from a leftist