
Thursday Morning Politics: Democrats Respond; What is Going on With Gender-Affirming Care?; How Trump's Might Impact Data at Federal Agencies; Gopnik's Insomnia
The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 6, 2025
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Coming up on today's show:
- Shane Goldmacher, national political correspondent for The New York Times covering the major developments, trends and forces shaping American politics, talks about the Democrats' ability to respond to the barrage of action by the new Trump administration and the national party's new leadership.
- News outlets are reporting that NYU Langone is cancelling some appointments for gender-affirming care for transgender children -- and that other hospital systems have removed mentions of gender-affirming care from their websites after President Trump issued a related executive order. Caroline Lewis, health care reporter for WNYC/Gothamist, reports on how trans kids and their families are reacting and the New York attorney general's warning to hospital systems that not providing the care would run afoul of state laws.
- Federal agencies like the CDC, NIH and the FDA had to remove and alter some data from their websites to comply with executive orders issued by President Trump. Katelyn Jetelina, founder and author of the newsletter "Your Local Epidemiologist," explains why data is "gold," and how these changes may affect our health.
- Adam Gopnik, staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery (Liveright, 2023), discusses a recent essay in which he describes his long battle with insomnia and listeners call in to tell us about their own relationships with the sleep disorder.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.


