When Gender Identity is on The Ballot

性别认同登上了选票

What A Day

2026-10-07

26 分钟
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This midterm election introduces a surprising ballot measure for Washington State voters to weigh in on -- whether to require girls to undergo genital inspections if they want to play sports. Jane speaks with Washington State House Speaker Laurie Jenkins about who's behind getting the issue on the ballot and what Washingtonians are saying about it.Show Notes: Call Congress – 202-224-3121 Subscribe to the What A Day Newsletter – https://tinyurl.com/y4y2e9jy What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcast Follow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/ For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com
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  • The fact that every girl in this state is going to have to have an invasive medical exam,

  • it's shocking and hard for people to believe that, which is one of our challenges.

  • But I think that message is starting to come through to people

  • and people are kind of picking up and listening and like, oh my, we can't have that.

  • It's Tuesday, October 6th.

  • I'm Jane Koston.

  • And this is What-A-Day.

  • California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom went on social media to call President Donald Trump, quote, deranged

  • and dangerous after the president held a campaign rally in Nebraska last night and things got weird.

  • And again, remember.

  • With the war, it's just artificial.

  • It's a little bit high.

  • It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe.

  • They can take out a city.

  • Let them take out Los Angeles.

  • Let them take out San Diego.

  • So Trump there was talking about the war in Iran and saying

  • that the high price of oil and gas was fine because otherwise Iran might bomb West Coast cities.

  • But the crowd seemed pretty into West Coast cities getting bombed.

  • Newsom accused the president of, quote, saying our foreign enemies should take out Los Angeles and San Diego.