The Illegal Trans Woman

This week’s Big Story focuses on the tragic murder of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent, a horrific act that highlights the dangers facing our community and the need for accountability. For the Big Interview, I speak with Gwen Howerton, a reporter for Chron.com, about the city of Arlington, Texas, inexplicably repealing its LGBTQ+…

I kick off 2026 by diving into a disturbing story at the University of Oklahoma where a trans teaching assistant was fired after giving a zero to a student who used AI to write a hateful, religiously charged paper—absolute insanity! The Big Interview features investigative reporter Lauren McGaughy, who joins me to expose how the…

This episode originally aired December 21, 2024: The Big Story this week is a continuation of last week’s BS (literally, that’s what it is BS) with 37 Democratic Senators voting to pass the National Defense Authorization Act, including MN’s two Senators, Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar. As with the House version, the bill passed by…

I admit right away that I am not in the holiday spirit because our community is facing a “ten-alarm fire” with the passage of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s horrific “Protect Children’s Innocence Act” and a new HHS rule threatening hospital funding. My Big Interview is with Ryan Cooper from The American Prospect, who joins me to…

In this episode, I dedicate the Big Story to the political firestorm surrounding Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Protect Children’s Innocence Act,” which aims to federally criminalize gender-affirming care for minors and is set for a floor vote next week—a shocking display of hypocrisy and an architecture for a police state. I then introduce my Big Interview…

It’s the show’s first anniversary! We do a review of the year, highlighting various interviews with the likes of U of Chicago behavioral scientist Nick Eppley and friend-of-the-show, Vanessa Tenneyson. The Big Interview is with Bella and Trish Tousignant, who talk about how their 39-year marriage not only survived, but blossomed when Bella came out…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

The Big Story is about the US Air Force retracting pension-award letters to a dozen transgender service members with 15-18 years of service who were being drummed out of the military due to Trump’s ban. The Air Force said it had “made a mistake” in granting the service members pensions; my take is that it…

Dr. Samuel Huneke, Associate Professor of History at George Mason, joins us monthly and today he’s in conversation with our guest host: Ellie Krug. Get Samuel’s books and learn more about his work here: samuelcloweshuneke.com. Check out Ellie’s weekly show The Illegal Trans Woman weekly Saturdays at 4pm on AM950 and everywhere you get your…

This episode originally aired March 8, 2025: The Big Story is about politicians who do the right thing (Senate Democrats who blocked a national trans youth sports ban) and those who don’t (CA Gov. Gavin Newsom, who in a podcast interview with right wing pundit Charlie Kirk threw trans athletes under the bus). The Big…