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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Hickory Interlude" by Blue Dot Sessions
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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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

Tuck and Ozzy speak with Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin (she/her). Topics include:

• Writing a book for trans freaks
• Reclaiming the gender-plague genre from TERFs
• Horror movies as exposure therapy 
• Can art be dangerous?
• Plus: Supermasochist, spitting, shrooms, and "my biological father, David Cronenberg"

This Week in Gender: Addressing a few common talking points about how there are so many trans kids these days. 

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Plaster Combo" and "Distill" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: LGBTQ&A and Bistitchual

Tuck speaks with Fran Tirado (she/they), co-host of Like a Virgin and Food 4 Thot. Topics include:

• Queer reality show concepts and non-monogamous TV representation 
• Writing a book about "when activism gets wrapped up in capital"
• A quick and easy guide to reclaiming Pride from corporations 
• Self-work, community care, and how to stop working all the time
• Plus: Mustache privilege(?!) and f@gg0try as a gender 

 

This Week in Gender: Rynn shares a heartwarming dispatch from Madison.

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Night Light" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: LGBTQ&A, Zoned Out Podcast, and Queer Candle Co (promo code: GENDER10)

Tuck and Ozzy speak with Jeopardy champion Amy Schneider (she/her). Topics include:

• How going on national TV helped with vocal dysphoria (and gave Amy hope for trans people's political future)
• Grappling with the constant threat of milkshake-ducking
• The history and future of Trans Jeopardy 
• Why are so many trans women coders? 
• Plus: Kafka, Tarot, fame, orgies, and the gay green couch

This Week in Gender: An exclusive clip of our new bonus episode with Cassius Adair! 

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
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Tuck chats with Niko about coming out as a grocery store cashier, deterring ghosts and bears, writing memoir with a bad memory, and misspelling Neko Case's name on your bloody arm. 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Tuck and Niko's favorite musical covers, plus discussions of Wilco, Meg 2, Ohio for girls, Canada's Boston pierogi pizza, Guy Fieri sparkling water, Yukon tourism, trans buffer names,  and childhood autism lore.

Niko's book The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman is on sale now.

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck speaks with Imogen Binnie (she/her), author of Nevada. Topics include:

• Revisiting Nevada 10-15 yrs later, obvi! 
• MichFest, Trans Camp, and womyn with a y 
• Playing doom metal by candlelight as a queer bonding activity
• Watching horror movies to feel something
• Plus: Piss Christmas, John Darnielle, Gene Belcher, and Melissa????

This Week in Gender: Heartstopper and the possibility of something good.

Preorder Nevada here. Find Correspondences on Bandcamp. Listen to Imogen Watches Classic Films on Apple Podcasts. Imogen is @imogenbinnie, where you can also find the trans Love, Actually script.

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Quindi" and "Khfett" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Queer Candle Co (promo code: GENDER10)

Tuck speaks with writer and researcher Jo Krishnakumar (they/them). (CW: anti-trans violence 37-42) Topics include:

• The neurodivergent need to take your pain and put it into ~projects~
• How casteism continues to impact queer and trans spaces 
• Reimagining "the closet" as a cave, a balcony, or a nest
• How different trans communities interact in India
• Plus: Googling "Am I gay?"

This Week in Gender: New study shows that trans kids stay trans. (Riley MacLeod weighs in.)   

Find Jo (and Almaarii and Transform) at waytojo.com.

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Vela Vela" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Bistitchual & Queer Candle Co (promo code: GENDER10)

Tuck speaks with musician, drag performer, and community organizer TAYLOR ALXNDR (they/she) Topics include:

• Drag as a political organizing tool
• "I feel like gender is still a competition… especially on social media"
• Collaborating on hundreds of Southern Fried Queer Pride events without collapsing from burnout or internecine squabbles.
• Gender social contagion (Would I want tits on a desert island?)
• Plus: Lumpy Space Princess gender, the RuPaul Industrial Complex, and MITOCHONDRIHANNA!

This Week in Gender: Ozzy teaches us about Apayauq Reitan and more trans Iditarod history. 

Find Taylor @tayloralxndr and at tayloralxndr.com. Southern Fried Queer Pride is @sfqp.

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Pitho Magnus" and "Luper" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Zoned Out Podcast & Urbody (promo code: TUCK15) 

Tuck speaks with Avery Tucker (he/him) from Girlpool. Topics include:

• Losing control of your voice… as a touring musician. 
• Learning to accept the existence of your pre-transition self
• The joys and fears of "trans voice" 
• Plus: Juno, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Theypool?

This Week in Gender: Wales banning conversion therapy; Montana judge blocking birth certificate law; doctor suing UT-Southwestern; sanctuary state bills to support trans families; MCR wants to sell binders

Find Girlpool music & merch at girlpoolmusic.com. Avery is @girlpoool and @av33333ry on IG. Forgiveness is out now! 

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Urbody (promo code: TUCK15) 

Tuck speaks with Edgar Gomez (he/she/they), author of the memoir High-Risk Homosexual. Topics include:

• TFW Facebook suggests that you friend-request the Pulse shooter 
• The pros & cons of Latinidad (the concept) and Latinx (the word)
• Writing about your family's homophobia without making them into telenovela villains
• The intersections of class/poverty and queerness 
• Plus: Sporty Spice, trans villain representation, and post-credits Drag Race goss.

This Week in Gender: Rebecca Kling critiques the recent Washington Post op-ed "What I wish I'd known when I was 19 and had sex reassignment surgery."

References: Cristina Silva's article about the word Latinx in USA Today. 

Find Edgar at edgargomez.net, and find High-Risk Homosexual through Soft Skull Press or wherever books are.

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Mosic" and "Greyleaf Willow" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Urbody (promo code: TUCK15) 

Tuck speaks with stand-up comic and actor River Butcher (he/they). Topics include:

• Bisexual men of dyke experience
• If men have hurt me, how do I come to terms with being a man?
• Being a comic who is trans, not a trans comic (and also not Che Diaz)
• Embracing perpetual transition and life in "the middle time"
• Plus: "Can I just say on this podcast… and hopefully it doesn't become like a viral moment…" 

This Week in Gender: The Biden administration marked TDoV by trying to make TSA stop doing gender-based gropes, among other things.

Find River's tour dates, Comedy Central special and more at riverbutcher.com and @rivbutcher.

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Kovir Straight" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Urbody (promo code: TUCK15) 

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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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Our patrons! Thank you!

Afte an exciting merch announcement, Tuck shares a new episode of the Homo Schedule, featuring queer actors Jasmin Savoy Brown, Liv Hewson and Leo Sheng.  -----

What's it like being cast in a show that influenced your identity as a kid? How do you make space for yourself while growing up as one of the only queer and Asian kids in your town? And where are all the queer Disney royals? All that and more as Liv and Jasmin talk to Leo Sheng!

Citations

- In Hollywood, Asian American stories are rare, but Asian American LGBTQ stories are even rarer by Lakshmi Gandhi for NBCNews

- During the 1970s, Social Workers Began Placing LGBTQ Youth with Queer Foster Families by Matt Katz for WNYC's The Takeaway

- And here is Leo's Twitter thread about queer & trans BIPOC!

Tuck speaks with sex educator and ~sensualist~ Ev'Yan Whitney (they/she). Topics include:

• What sensuality looks like when it's painful to be in your body
• The superpower of being an asexual sex educator
• Advice for folks worried that transitioning will harm their romantic relationships
• Is it fine to dissociate our way through the pandemic?
• Plus: We've been eating apples wrong this whole time?!

This Week in Gender: Watch Framing Agnes and don't reinvent the wheel. (Trans elder podcasts include Stealth: Transmasculine Podcast and Call Me Mother.)

Find Ev'Yan at evyanwhitney.com and @evyan.whitney. Their book and podcast are both called Sensual Self.

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Fermin Canyon" by Blue Dot Sessions
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Tuck speaks with Krys Malcolm Belc (he/him), author of The Natural Mother of the Child. Topics include:

• Parallels between being pregnant and starting HRT
• Parenting a trans femme child as a trans masc parent
• The value of disagreeing with other trans people(!)
• Creating trans pregnancy representation without becoming a cis spectacle
• Plus: gender-y childhood photos; bottom growth; real apologies; and why we're wearing Carhartts right now(?)

Find The Natural Mother of the Child at Bookshop.org. Krys also has a chapbook called In Transit, which is available from The Cupboard.

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Bistitchual 

Tuck and Ozzy chat with cartoonist Alison Bechdel (she/her). Topics include:

• Which Dykes to Watch Out For characters are canonically t4t-married, top surgery'd, or in a nonbinary asexual polycule 
• What did Alison do with that MacArthur genius grant money?
• Did we successfully convince Alison that DTWOF's Stuart is an egg?!
• Dyke vs. lesbian vs. gay woman: which one is "coy and ridiculous"?
• Plus: Alison's relationships with Marx's Capital, the 1980 Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Sex and the City, and the American Heritage Dictionary

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today's messages were from Queering the District Podcast and the Trans Mag.

Find Alison at linktr.ee/alisonbechdel. Spent is available now at your local bookstore. 

Tuck and Mattie Lubchansky are chatting live in Astoria, Queens, on July 29! Tickets available now.

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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.

Producer Ozzy(!) speaks with actor, writer and comic D'lo (he/him). Topics include:

• Creating a trilogy of solo shows about transition & queer life
• Queer community as a spiritual practice
• Using art and comedy to reshape traumatic narratives
• "Nobody can touch us, the more vulnerable we are"
• Plus: The god/freak complex and the short hair to transmasc pipeline

This Week in Gender: Mr. Manley makes Ohio history; Andrea Jenkins becomes president of the Minneapolis Council; Mj Rodriguez wins a Golden Globe; Republicans propose more bills against trans youth; and an Olympic skater says not to focus on them being nonbinary (oops).

Find D'lo at dlocokid.com and on Twitter/IG @dlocokid.

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Tuck speaks with printmaker, comic-doer, and A.B.O. cofounder Io (they/them), who also started the whole "be gay do crime" thing. 

Topics include:

• The origins of "Be Gay, Do Crime"
• What we mean when we say do crime!
• Train-hopping to outrun your gender feelings
• A.B.O. Comix and trans prisoner support
• Plus: gender nihilism, anarchist D&D, bike helmet phrenology, 3 futures of gender, and a debate over the transness of Dune. 

This Week in Gender: Amy Schneider makes more Jeopardy history; Lithuania doesn't go far enough; April Ashley passed away; Quidditch begins to rename itself; And Just Like That fully does a meme. 

Io's print shop (featuring the original Be Gay Do Crime design) is at etsy.com/shop/bumlung. You can also find Io on twitter (@bum_lung) and IG (@bum.lung.press).

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Tuck speaks with writer, organizer, and #8toAbolition cofounder K Adetoyin Agbebiyi (they/them). Topics include:

• An abolitionist take on "cancel culture"
• The difference between nonprofits and mutual aid
• The connections between disability justice, reproductive justice, and prison abolition
• Supporting incarcerated trans people without giving more power to the prison industrial complex
• Plus: treating work like a video game, navigating the perils of leftist twitter, and relearning being gay.

This Week in Gender: Your gender doesn't need to be convenient to other people! 

Find K's work at kagbebiyi.com and freeashleydiamond.com. K also recommends Survived & Punished and Pocket Change Pools.

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Tuck catches up with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler (she/her) before tackling another stack of advice questions. Topics include:

• How do I know if my loved ones are really seeing me?
• Should I risk parental support to explore my gender?
• Can my cis girlfriend use all pronouns?
• How can demisexuals explore their queerness?
• Plus: When becoming a girl is like cutting out egg (lol) in bread products.

This Week in Gender: Here's the New York Magazine phallo essay. Don't read the comments :)

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Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) and Rev Nat's (promo code: SNACKS)

Tuck speaks with musician Ezra Furman (she/they). Topics include:

• Gender as a religion; transness as a mystical cult
• The power of taking control (and overcoming HRT hang-ups)
• Trans voice feelings as professional voice-users 
• A collection of genders based off Billy Joel lyrics
• Plus: sympathetic pregnancy, Lou Reed, rabbinical school, and coming out as a mom. 

This Week in Gender: New Zealand unanimously passes its self-ID law; a trans student in Missouri wins a sex-discrimination lawsuit; Chile legalizes same-sex marriage; a study says HRT access improves trans youth's mental health (obvi); and Canada successfully bans conversion therapy.

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Tuck speaks with theorist, author, and abolitionist Da'Shaun Harrison (they/them). Topics include:

• The way fatness functions as its own gender
• Working towards a better world without hope that we'll achieve it
• Why the concept of health is unsalvageable 
• Why we're tired of talking about pronouns with cis people 
• Plus: destroying gender!

This Week in Gender: WPATH's Standards of Care 8 is open for public comment through Dec 16.

Find Da'Shaun and Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness at linktr.ee/DaShaunLH.

References: "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe" by Hortense J. Spillers.

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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) and Rev Nat's (promo code: SNACKS)

Tuck speaks with Calvin Kasulke (he/him), author of Several People Are Typing. Topics include:

• The secret(?!?) baby-trans subtext of Calvin's debut novel
• Writing fiction (about Slack dot com) vs journalism (about bodega dick pills)
• Parallels between sobriety and transitioning
• Calvin asks Tuck a question (a.k.a. "there's cops here and I'm gay")
• Plus: GLAAD Awards Travis Bickle // nu-metal Big Bird // cyberpunk Rodney Dangerfield

This Week in Gender: A town in Bangladesh elects a hijra mayor(ish); Switzerland made it easier to change your name and gender marker; Canada is in process of banning conversion therapy; the Dutch government is finally apologizing for forced sterilizations; and an important French dictionary adds the gender-neutral pronoun iel, causing insufferable backlash.

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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].)

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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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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Gentle Son" by Blue Dot Sessions
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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.)

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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Friction Model" by Blue Dot Sessions
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Tuck chats with writer Harron Walker (she/her). Topics include:

• Sleepaway Camp (1983) vs They/Them (2022)
• Making sense of GSA Day of Silence circa 2007 
• Advice for women who keep accidentally dating eggs
• Ways that even "supportive" adults influence trans kids' genders
• Plus: The Marshafication of Cecilia Gentili, Bill Clinton's death in a tragic saxophone accident, and three tips for being normal :) :) 

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Find Harron at harronwalker.com and @harnwaw. Aggregated Discontent is available at thisistrans.info and your local bookstore. 

You can find Harron's profile of Cecilia Gentili on Vulture and read the full interview transcript via the Poetry Project. 

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Tuck speaks with sports writer Frankie de la Cretaz (they/them). Topics include:  

• Can sports be reformed?
• How do trans sports bans affect transmasc athletes?
• Sobriety, gender, and the cisheteronormativity of AA
• Making your relationship hotter by coming out as trans
• Plus: Unearthing trans elders & dyke drama while writing about football

This Week in Gender: Dana Zzyym finally gets a passport; Cancel Me, Daddy interviews two prominent trans Netflix employees; and the Supreme Court indirectly allows a trans man to sue a Catholic hospital for discrimination.

Find Frankie at britnidlc.com and on twitter/IG @thefrankiedlc. Their book, Hail Mary, is on sale now. 

We also recommend Frankie's Sports Illustrated feature "Living Nonbinary in a Binary Sports World" and their InsideHook article, "What About the Trans Athletes Who Compete — And Win — in Men's Sports?"

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Additional Music: "Talltell" by Blue Dot Sessions
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Tuck speaks with writer Denne Michele Norris (she/her), cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky (they/them) and organizer Mateo Guerrero (he/they) at Starr Bar in Bushwick. Topics include:  

• Setting boundaries with friends and family
• Working to decriminalize sex work in New York
• Coming out as a trans woman after coming out as nonbinary
• Plus: "TGNCIQ"; "transhet"; figure skating; the trans rock climbing obsession; trans lit representation; surviving public restrooms; f•cking around and finding out.

The article Denne mentions is "Trans Characters Are In Vogue, But Where Are the Thinkpieces?" by Eli Cugini. We also mention Refuge Restrooms.

Find Denne at dennemichele.com and on twitter/IG at @thedennemichele. For more of her work, subscribe to the Food 4 Thot podcast and the Electric Lit newsletter.

Find Mateo on IG @mateoguerrero_. Make the Road NY is at maketheroadny.org and on IG/Facebook @maketheroadny. 

Find Mattie on twitter @Lubchansky and IG @mattielubchansky. For more of their work, join their Patreon, subscribe to the Nib, and buy their book via Silver Sprocket. (They were also on Episode 20 of this show.)

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Welcome to Gender Reveal! This week, we revisit our very first episode — and by "revisit" I mean "throw the entire thing out and start from scratch."

Topics include:

• Is biological sex, like, real?
• How closely related are sex and gender?
• What steps do kids and adults take to transition?
• What does colonialism have to do with any of this?

Find an annotated transcript of this episode here or at genderpodcast.com/listen. 

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Tuck explains what's going on with this season of Gender Reveal, and announces our upcoming live show.

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Tuck chats with author Carmen Maria Machado (she/her) to wrap up Cis Day of Visibility. Topics include:

• The horrors of living in a gendered body
• Doing a press tour about your trauma
• Writing about gender without having an answer
• Is the pandemic more or less horny than Carmen's 2013 short story?
• Also: vampire sex, ghosts touching, and "gender: yes or no?" 

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Tuck chats with Nancy co-creator Tobin Low (he/him) as Cis Day of Visibility continues. Topics include:

• Lessons learned from making Nancy
• What does masculinity mean, and do we care?
• Is the cis-trans binary useful?
• Is the dating scene getting less racist?
• Plus: Bowen Yang; the LGBRPDR community; and getting gay engaged

This Week in Gender: Tobi Hill-Meyer on autogynephilia and the two-type diagnosis. You can also read the essay (with citations) on our Patreon.

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Distill" and "Illway" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) 

Whoops! We made an episode for today, but instead of airing it, we're sharing a new podcast that we're genuinely hyped to hear.

Learn more about Wait, Is thIs a Date? on Autostraddle. Find them on Twitter and Instagram @waitisthisadate.

Special thanks to Drew and Christina for letting us run this in our feed.

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Tuck chats with nurse practitioner and HRT provider Lola Pellegrino (she/her) as Cis Day of Visibility continues. Topics include:

• Reimagining "women's" health centers
• HRT myth-busting (e.g., what if there's air in my shot?)
• What's the deal with microdosing?
• Do birth control pills count as HRT?
• Plus: body goo, pharmacy goss, and when a "sex change" becomes a sex change.

Find Lola @damsorrow and at lolapellegrino.com. 

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Tuck chats with NPR's Sam Sanders (he/him) as Cis Day of Visibility continues. Topics include:

• Pushing the limits of "objectivity" rules
• "We get to be as multifaceted as white people"
• The cis gay usage of "girl"
• Should cis people be allowed to play sports? 
• Plus: Bald guy solidarity; detransition; and why didn't anyone explain bluegrass to me?

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Tuck kicks off Cis Day of Visibility with the help of podcaster and author Justin McElroy (he/him). 

Topics include:

• Using video games as an empathy exercise
• Giving your kids gender-neutral names ~just in case~ 
• Parsing community feedback (aka ally tips for allies) 
• The end of Monster Factory?
• Plus: "the dark flexibility we crave," the most-cis snack, and what gender actually is(!)

Find Justin's work at mcelroy.family. Subscribe to My Brother, My Brother & Me, The Adventure Zone, Sawbones and Justin's other shows wherever you get podcasts. 

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Tuck and Mckenzee chat about the big knife in Moonstruck (1987), pizza mnemonics, blue foods, trans vibing, and the special cat that David Lynch invented for Dune (1984).

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear additional movie reviews and recommendations, plus our medical histories(?!), cat updates, lite gossip, tips for being normal, and much more. 

You can follow Mckenzee & Tuck on Letterboxd if you're into that sort of thing.

Come see Gender Ordeal in Brooklyn on May 9, which is your last chance to see our little trans comedy show!!!!!!! Tickets at genderpodcast.com/live.

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Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

In lieu of a new Gender Reveal interview, please enjoy this excellent episode of Cancel Me, Daddy by Katelyn Burns and Oliver-Ash Kleine.

In this conversation, the hosts chat with Emily VanDerWerff about her Vox article "How Twitter Can Ruin a Life," which chronicles the fallout around Isabel Fall's "The Helicopter Story."

Isabel is asking anyone who wants to support her to donate to Trans Lifeline.

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Special thanks to Oliver-Ash and Katelyn for letting us run this episode in our feed! 

Tuck catches up with Diné artist and youth worker LaTisha Rico (they/them). Topics include:

• Raising a nonbinary Indigenous baby as a nonbinary Indigenous person
• Thinking about gender as a decolonial act
• Navigating fatphobia, transphobia, racism, and a pandemic during pregnancy
• Embodying two-spirit traditions through trans youth advocacy
• Plus: Gendercide, beading, and fronting an Indigenous hardcore band(!!!)

The article Tish mentions is Deborah A. Miranda's "Extermination of the Joyas," which you can read here.

This Week in Gender: The Olympics banned two cisgender Namibian sprinters from the 400m race, citing high testosterone levels. Read Scientific American's "4 Myths about Testosterone."

Find Tish's beadwork at roserico.com and listen to With War on Bandcamp. 

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Additional Music: "Milkwood" by Blue Dot Sessions
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Tuck catches up with author and podcast host Gabe Dunn (they/them). Topics include:

• Refusing to be palatable 
• Working through internalized transphobia
• Revisiting Gabe's very trans "token cis" interview
• Pushing for better representation in Hollywood
• Plus: living behind the matrix, throwing money out the window, and crying in a pool in Palm Springs

This Week in Gender: The US is changing its rules regarding gender markers on passports.

You can find Gabe on Instagram (@gabyroad) and TikTok (@dabygunn), and on the Bad with Money and Just Between Us podcasts.

Read "Giving Poppers to Cis Women" by Drew Gregory on Autostraddle.

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