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 3 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!
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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This is my first chance to talk about Charlie Kirk’s murder—how horrific, and my condolences to his family and friends! Violence is never the answer! I talk about how MAGA desperately wants to tie transgender people to Kirk’s murder, and they’re doing so by asserting that the alleged shooter was poisoned by the ideology of…
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With this Ellie’s Talking Head show we cover how Boston Children’s Hospital convinced a federal judge in my old stomping grounds (Boston is where I learned to be a civil trial lawyer) to quash a Trump DOJ subpoena that sought to intimidate BCH into dropping its gender affirming care program for trans kids/youth. Way to…
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We begin with the Big Story of how some public school systems are fighting back against Trump’s DOJ/Department of Education edicts that seek to bar trans students from restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. Some districts in Virginia are suing and in Denver, the school superintendent, Dr. Alex Morrero, has issued…
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It’s a very somber show in the wake of the Annunciation Catholic church/school shooting—my heart goes out to the victims of that senseless attack! What horror for them and for our community! However, the attack, by a transgender person, may turn out to be the watershed moment MAGA extremists have been looking for; they could…
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On this Ellie’s Talking Head show we begin with how Trump’s MAGA DOJ has subpoenaed multiple Blue state hospitals seeking confidential patient information of transgender children and youth who have received gender affirming care. It’s all an effort to chill those hospitals from providing such care. I also share an influencer’s take about Maslow’s Hierarchy…
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Ellie Krug is the host of The Illegal Trans Woman, airing at 4 PM Saturdays on AM950 and also a noted author having just released her new memoir Being Ellen: A Second Chance at Lifw.
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