Episode 105: Chase Strangio

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11/22/21 • 54 min

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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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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. Leigh Music: Breakmaster Cylinder Additional Music: “Gentle Son” by Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) & Bistitchual

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.

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter, plus stickers and other rewards.

Browse our nonprofit merch shop at bit.ly/gendermerch.

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

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. Leigh Music: Breakmaster Cylinder Additional Music: “Gentle Son” by Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) & Bistitchual

Previous Episode

Episode 104: Jackie Ess

Tuck speaks with Jackie Ess (she/her), author of Darryl. Topics include:

The future of trans literature (whatever that means)
Writing from the outside and avoiding tokenization
How to avoid being the worst kind of reader
Hints to the subjects of Jackie’s next two books
Plus: Jonathan Franzen, Jack Harlow, Casey Plett, Torrey Peters, Hugo Grotius, and the Situation?

This Week in Gender: Para sports and the Paralympics. (You can read WBC’s trans inclusion policy here.)

Find Jackie on Twitter @jackie_ess. Buy Darryl on Bookshop or wherever books are.

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter, plus stickers and other rewards.

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

Browse our nonprofit merch shop at bit.ly/gendermerch.

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. Leigh Music: Breakmaster Cylinder Additional Music: “Friction Model” by Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)

Next Episode

Episode 106: Yeonsoo Julian Kim

Tuck speaks with game designer and cultural consultant Yeonsoo Julian Kim (they/she). Topics include:

Creating games where every playable character is nonbinary (or, in other cases, Korean)
The joys of BDSM tea party games and horror erotic fiction
Why “romanticizing colonialism” is a surprisingly common game plot
Playing to win vs. playing to process your feelings and maybe have a nice cry
Plus: divorcing fear from gender; and the DnD to HRT pipeline

This Week in Gender: Iowa Medicaid must start covering trans surgeries; R*wling once again claims to be victimized by trans people; Stu Rasmussen was the country’s first openly trans mayor; Trans Day of Remembrance happened; Amy Schneider is crushing it on Jeopardy.

Find Yeonsoo @yjuliankim and at yeonsoojuliankim.com. (Want more? Their interactive novel The Fog Knows Your Name is available here, and the Strange Lusts/Strange Loves anthology is being released in installments here [NSFW].)

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter, plus stickers and other rewards.

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

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. Leigh Music: Breakmaster Cylinder Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) & Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera