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 his purported transgender girlfriend. On top of that, we have Reps. Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson calling for the institutionalizing of all trans people! Of course, Trump will ...
Sep 24, 2025•43 min
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 fight back BCH! I also talk about the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court arguments on two cases challenging state bans on female trans athletes participating on women’s teams. Unfortunat...
Sep 15, 2025•46 min
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 a forceful statement in support of all queer students. The Big Interview is with USA Today journalist Will Carless who reports on the background for his Augus...
Sep 08, 2025•46 min
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 now use it to force trans people into detention camps. I specifically talk about how the concept of “gender ideology” is not real; my “ideology” is compassion and kindness f...
Sep 01, 2025•47 min
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 of Needs and how MAGA has caused Americans to fear the loss of their most basic needs—safety, security, and food—thus preventing them from be...
Aug 25, 2025•46 min
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 post Ellie Krug with Matt – August 19, 2025 first appeared on AM 950 .
Aug 19, 2025•23 min
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 was just plain up cruelty toward people who had diligently risked their lives to protect us. God. The Big Interview is with Brianne Bricker, a trans woman who transitioned in her mid-fifties an...
Aug 18, 2025•48 min
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 podcasts! The post Dr. Samuel Huneke with guest host Ellie Krug first appeared on AM 950 ....
Aug 11, 2025•45 min
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 Interview will rock you—it’s with Pastor Luke Springer from Plymouth United Church of Christ in Des Moines who talks about the dismal state of legal protections for transgender Iowa...
Aug 11, 2025•45 min
Ellie Krug is the host of The Illegal Trans Woman, airing Saturdays at 4 PM on AM950. The post Ellie Krug with Philip Anthony – August 4, 2025 first appeared on AM 950 .
Aug 04, 2025•19 min
It’s an Ellie’s Talking Head show, beginning with how the Trump administration is targeting 50-60 colleges and universities with investigations for alleged antisemitism—which is a ploy to simply control how the schools admit students and create curricula. First Columbia caved; this week it was Brown University; undoubtedly there will be many others, which will send a chill across academia and the smaller colleges in America. We then return to the debate about female trans athletes with the story...
Aug 04, 2025•46 min
Unfortunately, the Big Story is about how multiple Blue state health care providers are closing their gender affirming care clinics for transgender children and youth despite there being no federal law mandating closures; they’re just caving to fear of federal subpoenas and investigations. Horrible! The Big Interview is with award-winning journalist Varsha Bansal who reports on interviewing Jo Ellis, a transgender VA National Guard helicopter pilot who was wrongly accused of causing the Blackhaw...
Jul 28, 2025•48 min
This week’s Big Story is about how US Secy of Defense Pete Hegseth’s efforts against “wokeism” resulted in passing over a rear admiral for promotion because nearly a decade ago there were drag shows on the aircraft carrier the admiral commanded. Hegseth also ordered that a Navy oil tender named after gay rights icon Harvey Milk be renamed—and he ordered that at the start of Pride Month to make a point about how queer people don’t matter to him. The Big Interview is with Nick Alm of Mossier, who ...
Jul 21, 2025•48 min
It’s an Ellie’s Talking Head show where I cover the multiple MAGA attacks on transgender health care—such as Ohio banning trans youth and adults on Medicaid from accessing mental health resources or Pam Bondi’s DOJ subpoenaing medical records from 20 Blue state doctors and hospitals that treated trans patients. But there’s always some light, and I note how the famous Billy Jean King is an ally to trans athletes, saying, “I don’t think people have any idea of how hard it is for trans people. Just...
Jul 14, 2025•45 min
This is an encore of episode 6 from January 11, 2025: The Big Story this week is Meta’s decision to discontinue fact checking and how, inevitably, that will result in more transphobic postings and the risk of cascading marginalization of transgender and gender expansive people. The Big Interview is with Leigh Finke, the first out transgender person elected to the Minnesota Legislature, who offers unique perspective on the legislation that she sponsored to make MN a trans refuge state. Finally, t...
Jul 05, 2025•45 min
It’s a live show from Pride 2025 at Loring Park in Minneapolis! I share about how it was Pride 2008 when I first went out in public as my true self, as Ellie. I visited a bar named Pi (now long closed) where the doorway person said, “Welcome, we’re happy that you’re here.” It made all the difference in the world to then-terrified me! I also talk about the damage to LGBTQ+ humans wrought by the Supreme Court’s recent decisions. Despite all that, Happy Pride! The post The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep....
Jun 30, 2025•53 min
We spend most of the show talking about US v. Skrmetti, in which the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Tennessee’s ban on gender affirming care (GAC) for transgender minors and youth under 18. This was a horrible decision for my community, and we have Terri Nelson, the Legal Director for the MN ACLU, to talk about the legal details. Me, on the other hand: I talk about the emotional impact of the decision. It’s simply devastating and likely will lead to efforts for a national GAC ban. The post T...
Jun 23, 2025•48 min
The Big Story is about the Los Angeles Children’s Hospital deciding to shutter gender affirming care services for youth and younger adults, all because its CEO has become fearful of threats by the Trump administration; this most certainly will chill other s Blue state clinics that provide similar care. Ugh! The Big Interview is with Jose Abrigo from Lambda Legal re: a recent preliminary injunction entered in favor of the San Francisco Aids Foundation and other LGBTQ+ heath care providers that re...
Jun 17, 2025•40 min
This is an encore of episode 10 from February 8, 2025: We begin with Trump signing two more executive orders this week. One banned trans girls/young women from participating in women’s sports across the country (and the NCAA immediately agreed to ban trans athletes). The second EO creates a “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias” with Attorney General Pam Bondi heading it. The EO in part references how Christians have been “forced” to “affirm radical transgender ideology”—no doubt signalin...
Jun 07, 2025•46 min
This week’s Big Story is about how the California Interscholastic Federation has buckled to anti-trans athlete pressure by announcing that any cisgender female athlete who loses to a transgender female athlete will be automatically deemed to have made the cut/placed for purposes of qualifying for a competition. Given how California leads the nation in so many ways, this isn’t good! The Big Interview is with a transgender man, Henry Fiximer, who is newly-elected as Trustee in Dundee Township, Ill...
Jun 02, 2025•47 min
The Big Story comes out of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill and how in the dead of night, MAGA Republicans added a provision to strip gender affirming care from every transgender person on Medicaid. God. The Big Interview is with Katelyn Burns, a political reporter/journalist who offers her take on what’s happening to trans people in Trump’s America. And for a treat, in Random Acts, I read from my forthcoming book, Being Ellen: A Second Chance at Life, sharing how AM950 supported my advocacy during th...
May 28, 2025•47 min
This week’s Big Story is about last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that dissolves a federal court injunction that barred the Defense Department from dismissing thousands of transgender service members. Even though the Supreme Court didn’t fully adjudicate the issue (an appeal for the district court’s ruling will continue), the Court’s ruling effectively gives the Trump Administration what it wanted—there will be no trans service members left by the time the appeal is head. Horrible! The Big In...
May 21, 2025•47 min
This is a replay of our inaugural show from December 7, 2024: I lay out the show’s mission, share a little of my background, and address why “Illegal” is part of the show’s name (hint: Project 2025 seeks to outlaw “transgender ideology” whatever the hell that is…). We also cover this week’s oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti , which deals with the question of whether a state can prohibit gender affirming care for transgender youth—and from how the court asked questions, it doesn’t look good. The...
May 10, 2025•44 min
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 Francis and a brave man in Sylva NC who stood up to white supremacy. The post The Illegal Trans Woman – Ep. 22: When Politics Trumps Science (Again) first appeared on AM 950 ....
May 05, 2025•46 min
The Big Story this week is about the Mississippi Supreme Court refusing a sixteen-year-old transgender teen boy’s application for a name change, despite his parent’s consent to the change. The Court rationalized that the youth wasn’t “mature enough,” and additionally, to allow the name change would assist with his gender transition in violation of MS law. What cruelty! The Big Interview is with Peggy Mason, PhD, who talks about “rat empathy” and that familiarity with “other” can erase barriers/s...
Apr 28, 2025•47 min
We start with the Big Story of how the UK Supreme Court ruled that transgender women aren’t included in the definition of female “sex” under the UK’s Equality Act, meaning that trans women can be excluded from all female spaces and sports in the UK. No doubt, MAGA will latch onto this! Ugh. The Big Interview is with independent investigative journalists Mady Castigan and Tom Sayers re: the treatment of incarcerated transgender women in MD and FL prisons. In News Bites, I share about Hungary’s co...
Apr 21, 2025•47 min
On today’s Gaily Show, guest host Ellie Krug from The Illegal Trans Woman on AM950 fills in for John and Jim in a can’t-miss episode. The post Guest Host Ellie Krug today! first appeared on AM 950 .
Apr 14, 2025•45 min
This week’s Big Story is about how a Florida school district is non-renewing a well-loved high school English teacher’s contract because she had the audacity to use a transgender student’s name that aligns with the student’s gender identity; apparently, that’s illegal in FL (of course!). The Big Interview is with Sam Chapman from the SD ACLU to talk about a newly passed law that makes it illegal for Ellie Krug to use the women’s restroom at I-90 rest areas. And, this week’s Random Acts has me sh...
Apr 14, 2025•46 min
The Big Story picks up from last week with a list of the mega-sized American law firms that have caved to Trump, and those that have resisted. The Big Interview is with Max Kozlov, a science reporter who wrote about the National Institute of Health gutting all research around transgender health, and instead mandating a need to study the rates at which trans people regret transitioning genders (which is less than 1 percent of trans people). I also share about speaking at a St. Peter MN church on ...
Apr 05, 2025•47 min
Ellie Krug is a transgender advocate and speaker, and host of The Illegal Trans Woman on Saturdays at 4 PM on AM950 or anytime on AM950radio.com. The post Ellie Krug with Matt – March 31, 2025 first appeared on AM 950 .
Mar 31, 2025•15 min
