Bearded Lesbians – Details, episodes & analysis

Jessi returns to the Bearded Lesbians for an in-depth conversation about the challenges we face reidentifying as women and lesbians after years of testosterone use and male-passing.

Interview with Keira Bell: https://youtu.be/vLiXgY6ZJPw?si=a-NSgMZeHXhljW29

Transparency Podcast: https://www.genderdysphoriaalliance.com/podcast

Support for detransitioners

Beyond Trans: https://beyondtrans.org

Therapy First: https://www.therapyfirst.org

Jessi is a 69 year old butch lesbian living on communal lesbian land in Oregon, USA. In this episode, she tells her story of starting testosterone in 1987, at age 31 and the challenges she faced while appearing as a man and taking the steps back to lesbian spaces.

Joey came out as a lesbian in high school and started to explore her identity, first identifying as a transman, and started taking testosterone at age 19. She’s since reidentified as a masculine (butch) lesbian.

Follow Joey on TikTik @petitewolverine

Stone Butch Blues: https://www.lesliefeinberg.net

Kennedy is a 26-year-old lesbian competitive bodybuilder - a sport in which the periodic use of prescription steroids is common, even in the female category. She describes some of the risks of steroid use, including liver damage and elevated triglycerides which is monitored through routine bloodwork. She’s not currently experiencing any health problems. Through bodybuilding, she’s achieved the masculine physique she desires for herself. Single-sex spaces are a challenge for her, as a sex nonconforming woman but, despite the social pressures to conform to femininity standards, she feels confident about her lesbianism and her female body.

Xenon is a 24 year old actor, handyman and welder from North Carolina who is a part of the North American radical feminist lesbian “land dykes” community, historically associated with the Michigan Women’s Music Festival. Xenon has struggled with reconciling her firm commitment to radical feminism and lesbianism with her decision to take testosterone to masculinize her appearance.

Lisa Vogel’s book about the history of Michfest: https://www.amazon.com/We-Can-Live-Like-This/dp/B0D3W2Y6Z5

Mars is a 42 year old transman from North Carolina who started taking testosterone in 2018. He hosts a popular YouTube channel, Upperhand Mars: https://www.youtube.com/@upperhandMARS

Find him on Twitter: https://x.com/UpperhandMars

Pip is a 34-year-old lesbian who used testosterone for three years from age 24-27. She has an interest in sound engineering and compares the appeal of taking testosterone to the proximity concept of sound recording. (Proximity to the mic). She's settled into an acceptance of herself as a masculine woman.

Zander Keig is an award-winning social worker, public speaker, family caregiver, social care educator, best-selling author, sought-after corporate workshop presenter, and host of the popular Umbrella Hour podcast. He’s a sex realist transsexual who lived as a lesbian separatist prior to medicalizing in his thirties.

You Don’t Know Dick: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118206/

Body Alchemy: https://archive.org/details/2023-07-24-64becdf-6d-94be-transsexualportraitsfull-compressed

Stone Butch Blues: https://www.lesliefeinberg.net