Arienne has a bird’s eye view from two different windows on ‘trans’. She’s a tenured teacher in what might be the most progressive region of the most progressive state in the US. And, she’s the mother of a teenaged boy who was seduced by ‘trans’ mythology during the Covid lockdown, when kids in our state were asked to please just spend all-day-every-day alone with the internet for two years, so as to keep learning.
Well, they definitely learned some things.
See, I can’t even write this intro without slipping into ‘dark cynical voice,’ but that’s where Arienne can teach me something. As you will hear, she’s mastered both a constructive tone and a generous deference to the possibility of ignorance on the part of political actors who are trusted and well paid to be not ignorant, and also not evil degenerates!! But there I go again.
Arienne’s instincts are expertly tuned for the long game, which she appears to be winning, so let’s all try to take a page from her playbook!
Links to some things we discussed:
Video of Arienne’s interview on Carol’s Substack
Video of Arienne testifying during the California legislative committee hearing:
Kara Dansky’s book, The Reckoning, also available as a recording on Audible
My essay describing the Yaeli Martinez tragedy (with source)
Listen to Episode 12 with Arienne, a California public high school teacher