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Sex, Drugs, and ... Gender Panic!

Brittany Luse, NPR, Nastia Voynovskaya, Neena Pathak, Corey Antonio Rose, Barton Girdwood
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An older white woman dressed in black sits in a darkened room behind a music producer's desk alongside two acoustic guitars.
Sandy Stone, 88-year-old legendary audio engineer and trans woman who worked with rock ’n’ roll greats and was the in-house engineer at feminist label Olivia Records in the 1970s, in her home in Aptos on April 14, 2025. (Florence Middleton for KQED)

What do Trump and some feminists have in common? Based on history, more than you might think.

In this episode of NPR’s It’s Been a Minute, host Brittany Luse and KQED Arts’ Nastia Voynovskaya explore the roots of modern-day transphobia through the story of one audio engineer. Then Brittany is joined by journalist Imara Jones to get into how Trump and JK Rowling’s rhetoric matches some of those early feminists.

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