Prologue

Producer Aviva DeKornfeld talks to Ranjani Srinivasan, who tells the story of how her life was transformed over five days via a series of events that started out confusing and escalated to frightening. (25 minutes)

Producer Laura Starecheski takes us inside one dramatic court hearing on the Trump administration’s executive order and new policy banning transgender people from serving in the military.

Host Ira Glass talks with M.

Susan Burton introduces some of the many women who went to a Yale fertility clinic for IVF treatment, and charts their experience from hopeful beginning to excruciatingly painful egg retrieval.

Often bypassing logic, the women go to great lengths to construct elaborate stories to make sense of their inexplicable pain.

Susan Burton is a couple years into recovery from the eating disorder she’s had for decades.