Gender Reveal – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Tuck announces new book tour events, including a '90s-themed lit party and a trans band debut/reunion(!?!). Then, Tuck chats with Cass about the state of trans studies and why podcasts are over. 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Cass and Tuck discuss talking to kids about gender, making friends in Minnesota, wearing one hat for 15 years, projecting your brain problems onto your baby, and much more. 

Catch Tuck on book tour in Philly, Brooklyn, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Oakland, and on Zoom! Sex Change and the City is available now in the Girl Dad Press shop.

Applications are now open for our 2025 grant program thru 10/31. 

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck and Ozzy chat with writer Zefyr Lisowski (she/her). Topics include:

• How horror helps us explore what we owe others in the wake of pain
• Zefyr's delicate decision to do a ~gender reveal~ in Uncanny Valley Girls 
• Managing harm in t4t and crazy4crazy relationships
• How the Great Dismal Swamp informs Zefyr's thoughts about race and class 
• Plus: Grave robbers, werewolves, Pisces poetics, and a musical based on The Ring. 

This Week in Gender: Applications are now open for our 2025 grant program! Please help us spread the word to trans folks of color doing rad organizing / art / community work around the world. 

Find Zefyr at zefyrlisowski.com and @zefrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Uncanny Valley Girls is on sale tomorrow, Oct. 7!

Submit a piece of Theymail here.

Preorder Sex Change and the City today, or catch Tuck on book tour in Chicago, Seattle, Oakland, and more.

Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes, including our upcoming episode with Cassius Adair.

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Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal.

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20) and Max Burns UX (mention Rhubarb!)

Tuck chats with Sawyer K. Kemp (they/them) about the news that Ian McKellan is involved in an all-trans staged reading of Twelfth Night. Topics include whether Twelfth Night is trans, what baseball and Shakespeare plays have in common, and what prison has to do with any of this. 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of West Virginia, trans cringe, 17th-century trans intra-community conflict, which Shakespearean role Shohei Ohtani would play, and whether acting is good or bad :)

Find Sawyer at sawyerkkemp.com and at Queens College.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck speaks with Cat Fitzpatrick (she/her), author of The Call-Out and cofounder of LittlePuss Press. Topics include: 

• Writing about Brooklyn trans girl drama in iambic tetrameter 
• Searching for answers on the Transsexual Internet Circa 2001
• Running a small press that doubles as a community org (aka lessons learned from Topside)
• Why is it so hard for (trans) people of goodwill to build a functional community, let alone a just one?
• Plus: Cameoing in your fiction using the meanest DM you've ever received

This Week in Gender: Rosemary deserves a sword. 

Find Cat @intermittentcat and at catfitzpatrick.net. Follow LittlePuss @LittlePussPress and littlepuss.net, and on tour now through Nov 5. The Call-Out, Faltas, and Meanwhile, Elsewhere are all available now. 

Listen to Tuck on Normal Gossip!

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to get access to our monthly bonus podcast, weekly newsletter, and other fun perks.

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

Find episode transcripts and grant info at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we'll read on the show. Today's message was from True Bearing Bodywork.

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Danver County" and "Pigpaddle Creek" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Queer Candle Co. (promo code: GENDER10)

Tuck tackles more advice questions with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). Topics include:

• How should I balance my partner's comfort with my own transition?
• How can I get my family to fully accept my transition?
• Why does my child keep misgendering me?
• Would it be inconsiderate of me to share my pronouns? 
• Are feminine names going extinct?

This Week in Gender: Listeners share their wins, including Carl Charles, Naseem Jamnia and Queer Society Yukon.

Listen to Tuck's Life Kit episode about how to change your name. 

Do you have gender questions that you'd like answered on the show? Submit questions anonymously via this Google form.

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to get access to our new bonus podcast feed, plus our weekly newsletter and other fun perks.

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.

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/gender-slack.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we'll read on the show. Today's message was from Queer Comics Peddler.

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Delion" "Derano" and "Pitho Magnus" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)

Tuck speaks with writer and organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they). Topics include:

• Do non-disabled people exist?
• Diagnoses, autism, and how disability + transness intersect 
• How to build care networks without relying on social capital
• Why disabled people have the skills we need to survive the climate crisis, pandemics, etc. 
• Plus: ye olde "what does femme mean?" 

This Week in Gender: The San Francisco Marathon offered a nonbinary division, which led us to 2 Hot 4 Hoodies.

Find Leah on twitter @thellpsx and instagram @leahlakshmiwrites, and at brownstargirl.org. Preorder The Future Is Disabled (and browse several of their other books) via Arsenal Pulp.

Find Tuck on the Trans Mutual Aid episode of the TransLash podcast, and keep an eye out for their Life Kit episode about trans name changes. 

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Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to get access to our new bonus podcast feed, plus our weekly newsletter and other fun perks.

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/gender-slack.

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: "Hickory Interlude" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)

Tuck speaks with sociologist Alex Hanna (she/her). Topics include:

• How claiming AI is "sentient" gives big tech companies more power
• Privacy tips for trans folks and abortion-seekers (and why they're not enough)
• Using data science to predict who will win Drag Race
• Literally what is the point of Dall-E? 
• Plus: Roller derby, Star Trek, and some Macedonian teenager's repository of faces? 

This Week in Gender: A brief message from Charles Barkley.

Find Alex on twitter @alexhanna and at alex-hanna.com. Learn more about DAIR at dair-institute.org.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we'll read on the show. Today's message is from Rainbow Parenting.

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to get access to our new bonus podcast feed, plus our weekly newsletter and other fun perks.

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

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/gender-slack.

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)

Tuck speaks with pro wrestler Edith Surreal (she/her). Topics include:

• What happens when a masked wrestler gets an FFS consult?
• Combining ballroom culture with pro wrestling 
• Is playing a heel Bad Trans Representation? 
• Plus: Why wrestling is like a real-life comic book, a soap opera, a drag show, and Super Smash Bros.

This Week in Gender: Justine Lindsay; new Pew data; Emma Corrin in Vogue; and lots of news from Germany.

Find Edith @edithsurreal on Twitter and IG and at edithsurreal.com.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we'll read on the show. Today's messages are from Trans Book Box and Jordan Ross (learn more about the free voice workshop here).

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Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to get access to our new bonus podcast feed, plus our weekly newsletter and other fun perks.

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

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/gender-slack.

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: "These Times" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)

Tuck speaks with historian and writer Jules Gill-Peterson (she/her). Topics include:

• Do cis people exist?
• Why the United States hates children
• The very unequal histories of trans men and trans women
• How both sides of the trans youth debate are failing trans kids
• Plus: Patti Harrison, FFS @ CVS, and "If this is what being an ally is, I am an enemy."

This Week in Gender: Listen to Jules on Death Panel instead!

Find Jules on Twitter @gp_jls and subscribe to her newsletter on Substack. Histories of the Transgender Child is available through UMN Press.

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to get access to our new bonus podcast feed, plus our weekly newsletter and other fun perks.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we'll read on the show. Today's messages are from TheirOpen.Page and Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's.

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: "Shepman" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)

Tuck speaks with UK-based writer Jackson King (he/him). Topics include:

• Structural barriers to gender-affirming care faced by fat trans people
• Visiting Europe's largest gay sauna
• What's going on in the UK!?!
• Can men be redeemed?!
• Plus: Evangelical kink and RuPaul's egg detector

This Week in Gender: Trans listeners share their wins.

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to get access to our new bonus podcast feed, plus our weekly newsletter and other fun perks.

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

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we'll read on the show. Today's message (and special post-credits message) was from Seattle Trans Picnic.

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: "Rambling," "Capering," and "Calm and Collected" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: LGBTQ&A and Bistitchual