The Illegal Trans Woman
Saturdays 4-5 PM
With host Ellie Krug
I know what you are thinking: Illegal? Is she on the lam, running from the law?
The answer: Technically, no. At least not yet.
Rather, I’m a law-abiding person simply seeking to make my way in the world, wanting what everyone else craves—love, security, and peace. I just happen to be a transgender woman doing that.
The problem? With the advent of the Trump Administration and its heralding of Project 2025, there seems to be a real threat to outlaw “transgender ideology” (whatever the hell that is). I fear that in the most extreme sense, the threat may mean efforts to outlaw—as in erasing—transgender people from public life.
Certainly, that is something I completely oppose. In fact, this show is dedicated to fighting those efforts. There are a few people standing up for trans folks, for my community, and I darn well better be one of them.
What this show is also about: compassion for all humans, and especially for anyone who is considered “other,” and for those who are genuinely trying to understand what it means for someone to be transgender.
I also believe in earnestly working to bridge differences, so I’m willing to talk to anyone, including those who might be intolerant. Perhaps we can bridge what separates us. I am, and will always remain, a unifier instead of a divider.
But on the other hand, if you want to erase me and my community, my compassion ends there. You’ll instead get strident Ellie Krug—a fighter, an advocate, and one heck of a voice.
Stay tuned! Literally.
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Is America at risk of erasing transgender people? Host Ellie Krug tackles this urgent question in her show, The Illegal Trans Woman, while confronting the growing threats to the LGBTQ+ community and the very existence of trans and gender variant individuals. A transgender woman herself, Ellie is a passionate advocate for her community, dedicated to fighting back against intolerance while fostering understanding and compassion for all humans. With a focus on bridging differences, Ellie invites diverse perspectives, aiming to educate and unify. However, when faced with efforts to erase her community, Ellie becomes a fierce fighter and an unrelenting voice for justice. Tune in Saturdays at 4 PM for thought-provoking conversations that challenge, empower, and inspire action for a more inclusive world. And podcast the show anytime on your favorite app!
This episode originally aired May 3, 2025: It’s an Ellie’s Talking Head Show! The Big Story is about how Robert Kennedy Jr.’s HHS has issued a report on gender affirming care for transgender youth and—surprise—it claims that that crucial medical care is harming children! Other stories have transgender people participating in the funeral for Pope…
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We begin this Ellie’s Talking Head show by remembering President John F. Kennedy on the 62nd anniversary of his assignation and contrasting his leadership with that of Donald Trump. The first Big Story is about how the Trump administration is preventing transgender and nonbinary persons from obtaining passports that match their gender identities. Big Story…
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We’ve hit the half-century mark with Episode No. 50! I begin by highlighting Transgender Day of Remembrance, November 20th every year, and share about how TGDOR came into existence (in 1999, to honor transgender and nonbinary persons lost to violence or suicide in the preceding year). This November 20th, please tell a trans or nonbinary…
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It’s an Ellie’s Talking Head show, and we start with a just-delivered 6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision holding that an Ohio school district could not discipline students who claimed that their religious beliefs prevented them from according pronouns to transgender students that align with their gender identity. In other words, under the guise of…
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This week’s Big Story is how the Trump Dept. of HHS plans to issue three rules that will bar federal Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements to any hospital/medical facility that provides gender affirming care to any trans person younger than 18 (and in one case, 19). This is essentially an attack on all blue state hospital…
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We split the Big Story between two stories; one is about a landmark civil rights case where the MN Supreme Court held in favor of an adult female trans weightlifter who was barred from competing with other women due to her gender identity. The other case is about an Oregon federal judge ruling to block…
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It’s No Kings Day No. 2 and I urge listeners to get out and exercise their First Amendment rights! The Big Story is about the current status of a federal lawsuit seeking to block MN transgender student athletes from competing on teams that align with their gender identity. (So far, we’re winning!). The Big Interview…
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Today is National Coming Out Day, to honor members of the LGBTQ+ community who have come out to the world as their true, authentic selves. For this week’s Big Story, I talk about the historic origins of NCOD dating to October 11, 1988. The Big Interview is with Orion Rummler from The 19th who talks…
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Our Big Story this week is how the Veterans Administration has prohibited its therapists and doctors from providing referral letters for transgender Vets who seek to obtain gender confirmation surgery using their own funds or via private insurance. Without a referral letter, a surgeon who performs confirmation surgery won’t go forward (such letters confirm the…
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This week’s Big Story is about transgender people fighting back—two female trans athletes suing universities and the NCAA for denying them the right to compete, and five trans youth/their families and adults suing the University of PA Medical Center for denying them gender affirming care. Good for them and for the brave lawyers taking their…
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