One day, while doing house chores and putting his kid to bed, Reporter Mike Hixenbaugh was listening to a Grapevine-Colleyville school board meeting where a mother claimed that a queer teacher made her son trans. He then contacted Antonia Hylton about starting a new project. Hixenbaugh and Hylton's investigation is now the subject of a new NBC News Studios podcast — Grapevine that premiered yesterday. The six-episode series investigates the anti-trans movement in Texas, and how the approach in Grapevine has been more or less copied and pasted elsewhere. The podcast features exclusive interviews with students, teachers, school board candidates, parents, and politicians, as well as secretly recorded audio of school administrators grappling with growing political pressure from conservative groups. #Trans Rights