Can a Democratic House actually protect trans people with the orange convicted felon still in office? Today on Listen Up Girl, Vermont Rep. Becca Balint, the only out LGBTQ+ member of the House Judiciary Committee, lays out the tools: subpoenas, oversight hearings, and the power of the purse. She also calls out Democrats running anti-trans ads.

Also today: students and teachers at Fairview High School in Pennsylvania rally behind trans homecoming queen Sammi Gutierrez, and the district refuses to bow to online backlash. Gay Punjabi makeup artist and influencer Mad Sandhu is shot and killed outside a car wash in Amritsar, India, in what police call a planned attack. Pittsburgh's Blue Moon Bar apologizes for a blackface drag performance at its weekly Open Stage, then cancels the next show after death threats. And the man who killed 17-year-old trans girl Tayy Dior Thomas in Mobile, Alabama, pleads guilty and is sentenced to 25 years, in a deal her family says falls short.

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