# 1584 Shannon Minter National Center for LGBT rights Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/stand-up-with-pete-dominick-970595/1584-shannon-minter-national-center-for-lgbt-rights-2 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/stand-up-with-pete-dominick-970595/1584-shannon-minter-national-center-for-lgbt-rights-2.md Podcast: [Stand Up! with Pete Dominick](https://stenobird.com/podcast/stand-up-with-pete-dominick-970595) Published: 2026-04-29T12:37:31+00:00 Episode link: https://standupwithpete.libsyn.com/1584-shannon-minter-national-center-for-lgbt-rights Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/standupwithpete/1584_Shannon_Minter.mp3?dest-id=1647197 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/stand-up-with-pete-dominick-970595/episodes/1584-shannon-minter-national-center-for-lgbt-rights-2 Duration seconds: 2596 ## Resource I have a rotten phlegmy cold so no news and clips today but I do have a great first time guest! Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Shannon Minter is the Vice President of Legal (Legal Director) Over his more than 30 years at NCLR, Shannon Minter has led impact litigation, legislative, and public policy efforts. He has filed multiple lawsuits challenging a range of Trump administration anti-transgender executive orders. He is one of the nation's foremost experts on conversion therapy, helping to draft and pass legislation in states to protect LGBTQ youth and support survivors. He served as lead counsel in the landmark California marriage equality case, and he led NCLR's contributions to multiple Supreme Court cases, such as Pavan v. Smith , Obergefell v. Hodges, and Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. An appointee to President Obama's Commission on White House Fellowships, Shannon was one of the most senior transgender appointees in the Obama administration. He has taught law at UCLA, Stanford, Golden Gate University, and Santa Clara University. Shannon is currently counsel in six cases challenging the Trump administration's anti-transgender policies, including Talbott v. Trump , which seeks to restore the right of transgender Americans to serve openly in the armed forces. His work challenging anti-transgender military policies spans nearly a decade — he previously challenged the 2017 transgender mil… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/stand-up-with-pete-dominick-970595/episodes/1584-shannon-minter-national-center-for-lgbt-rights-2/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/stand-up-with-pete-dominick-970595/1584-shannon-minter-national-center-for-lgbt-rights-2.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.