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By Tim Graham ~

In his “Fourth Watch” newsletter on Monday night, former CNN producer Steve Krakauer drew attention to how the media frame transgender issues. The New York Times podcast The Daily — which airs across America on National Public Radio affiliates — explained on June 1 how transgender controversies came to the center of the debate. The guest was West Coast cultural correspondent Adam Nagourney, a former chief political correspondent and gay historian.

Following the Obergefell ruling in 2015 making gay marriage legal in America, major gay rights advocacy groups like the Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD were in a bit of a bind — gay marriage was their defining issue. In many ways, these organizations became the victims of their success. They won. As The Daily told it, now they needed a new mission to drive interest, and donations. Suddenly the focus shifted from gay rights to…