Episode
We've Been AWOL!
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- The Parent Advocate Podcast
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- Nov 4, 2025
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- 2034
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Summary
In this episode of the Parent Advocate, Lizette and I catch up after a month apart and bring each other up to speed on all things parenting, advocacy, and current events. We talk homesickness on the 7 month anniversary of Lizette’s flight from the US, and celebrate the milestone of submitting the dads documentary to the Sundance and SXSW film festivals. In Today’s Topics, we cover Democratic strategists David Axelrod, James Carville and David Plouffe throwing trans people under the bus, the Department of Health and Human Services’ refusal to permit Medicaid or Medicare coverage for gender affirming care for transgender minors, and young Republicans exposed as racists, misogynists and homophobes in text messages. Finally, in Allies & Assholes, we celebrate Robert DeNiro for supporting his trans daughter Airyn, and drag JK Rowling for her transphobic response to Glamour UK’s cover celebrating Women of the Year.