The president used an anti-trans slur three times against South Carolina Senate candidate Dr. Annie Andrews, who isn't trans. Today on Listen Up Girl, what that attack says about the campaign strategy behind it, and why distancing yourself from trans people doesn't buy protection.

Also today: Justice Samuel Alito's new book, So Ordered, calls the Obergefell marriage equality ruling "perhaps the decisive point" in the country's turn against religious liberty. The Oklahoma Supreme Court rules 6-3 that state law never allowed changes to the sex on a birth certificate. Taipei police raid the gay bar Commander D and detain 51 people, sparking protests weeks before Taiwan Pride. Thabatta Pimenta becomes the first trans woman from Brazil's northeast elected to Congress. And Livingston, Montana suspends, then reinstates, the permit for a pro-ICE film re-creating the killing of Renee Good.

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