Gender Reveal

Tuck speaks with lawyer and trans advocate Chase Strangio (he/they). Topics include:

• Why everything is going to keep getting worse (sorry!)
• How “biological” sex only exists in the law to exclude trans people
• Trans joy as a political counterpoint to right-wing legislation
• Cis women’s crucial role in combatting transphobia
• Plus: Throwing yourself on the ground screaming at the gender binary

This Week in Gender: The IOC releases new guidelines for trans & intersex athlete eligibility; and California will require gender-neutral toy sections.

Find Chase @chasestrangio on Twitter/IG and at aclu.org.

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Ozzy and Tuck chat with author M.E. O’Brien (she/her), whose work explores trans communist futures. Topics include:

• What can family abolition offer trans people?
• The limits of chosen family under capitalism
• Why we shouldn’t replace family with The State, either
• The similarities between her psychoanalyst and oral history work
• Plus: Why protest camps are important visions of the future

This Week in Gender: Japan’s Supreme Court lets a trans woman pee, but trans and queer Japanese people still lack basic rights.

Find M.E. at genderhorizon.com and @genderhorizon. An archive of her work is available on Patreon. Don’t forget to pick up a copy of Family Abolition and Everything for Everyone.

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The most recent episode of the Anti-Trans Hate Machine is a banger, and we thought you should hear it.

Listen to the Anti-Trans Hate Machine (a TransLash production) wherever you get your podcasts, or read the transcript here.

After Tuck makes a few exciting announcements, Vidhya Aravind and Erique Zhang share their perspectives on what trans visibility means and who it serves.

Find Erique Zhang at eriquezhang.com and @er_ique. Find Vidhya Aravind at @kid_vidh and on Episode 74 of our podcast.

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Trans folks of color can apply to receive mutual aid funds at bit.ly/tdos22.

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Find episode transcripts and starter packs for new listeners at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

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Tuck chats with activist Raquel Willis (she/her). Topics include:

• Why having the ~most radical gender~ isn’t a useful standard
• Reconciling your feminism with your transsexual desires
• Parental loss, and death as an animating force
• How to choose a good beneficiary for trans fundraising
• Plus: Afrotransmisogyny, Janet Mock, and... Fortnite??

This Week in Gender: Girlfriends by Emily Zhou; Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas; People Collide by Isle McElroy; Laugh Riot by Io & Jonas Goonface.

Find Raquel on Instagram and Twitter. Preorder The Risk It Takes to Bloom before Nov 14.

Find a copy of 2 Trans 2 Furious here, and join us on Nov 10 at North Figueroa in LA! (RVSP HERE.)

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