Tuck chats with Vogue culture writer Emma Specter (she/they) about unionizing Condé Nast, embracing Bisexuality 2, and not monetizing their gender exploration. 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Emma talk about seeing girlies from middle school at their book events; being asked about her boyfriend on the local news; and shoplifting gender from an infinite nonproblematic Sephora.

Emma's memoir More, Please is available now! Find Emma @specteremma / @emmaspecter.

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

Tuck and Ozzy chat with Rose Eveleth (they/them), creator of Tested. Topics include:

• Details and stories cut from Tested that Gender Reveal listeners would appreciate!
• Why individual trans and/or intersex athletes have conflicting ideas of what "fair" competition looks like 
• How the Paralympics can help us imagine new ways of categorizing elite sports
• What well-intentioned people often get wrong about sex testing in sports
• Plus: A breaking news name reveal(!?!), a Pokémon gender, and a review of Dune Messiah?

This Week in Gender: LGBTQ Olympians and Paralympians. 

Find Tested at tested-podcast.com, and find Rose at roseveleth.com.

Here's Tuck's Life Kit episode that Rose mentioned.

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Come see Tuck, Mattie & Calvin on September 22 at Union Hall! 

We're fundraising for Gaza aid in our merch shop. 

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Ranch Hand" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

Tuck chats with author KT Hoffman (he/him) about trans romance novels, egg & cheddar gender, egg behavior, and not being Assigned Mariners At Birth. 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of bagel recipes, real-life baseball romance (in our dreams), local queer softball leagues, formative gay YA novels, and which marginalized group will get to play professional baseball first (lol). 

The Prospects is available now wherever books are sold! Find KT Hoffman at kthoffmanwrites.com and @squashgoblin.

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

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Kid Kodi" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

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?" 

Follow Carmen on IG @carmenmmachado, and find Her Body and Other Parties and In the Dream House wherever books are sold. The referenced vampire interview is available on Electric Lit.

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

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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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
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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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
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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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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) 

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?

Find Sam on It's Been a Minute and on twitter @samsanders.

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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Gentle Son" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you! 

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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Produced by Cassius Adair and Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Variation Waldheim" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Bistitchual! 

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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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh

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

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.

Find our full list of grant winners at genderpodcast.com. Support the grant program by joining us on Patreon (patreon.com/gender) — you'll also receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. 

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Dialtone 11" and "Plum King" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Bistitchual

Ozzy and Tuck chat with with Yin Q (they/them). Topics include:

• How parenting changed Yin's relationship to gender and kink
• What queer people still need to learn about kink and consent 
• How the Red Canary Song documentary honors its subjects' privacy and agency
• Decriminalizing sex work — and then taking the "work" part out of it
• Plus: Spiritual sexuality, the kink-o-meter, and parent-child top surgery?

This Week in Gender: A Trans Day of Snack update! 

Find Yin @redcanarysong @kinkoutevents and @yinq13ritual. Yin also recommends the book Thriving in Sex Work by Lola Davina as a resource.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Jadie Grange" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Queer Candle Co (promo code: GENDER10) and DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

Tuck catches up with musician Mal Blum (they/them). Topics include:

• Going on testosterone as a professional singer
• Being mistaken for someone's str8 husband
• Are we gonna get clocked in the men's restroom?
• The many trans plot lines of Star Trek
• Plus: shopping for couches and becoming the transsexual John Darnielle

This Week in Gender: Happy Pride ™ from Raytheon, ICE, and Sensodyne.

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

Tuck chats with John Paul Brammer, author of ¡Hola Papi!, in the second half of this special two-part queer advice episode.

Topics include:

• Combating identity imposter syndrome ("am I queer enough?")
• Not being wholesome enough for Pet Twitter
• The tyranny of authenticity
• Why it's perfectly fine to experience joy right now
• Plus: Where does the wind come from? Dear Evan Hanson isn't gay? Why can't we escape Twitter? And why has no one ever been in love with me?

If you want to avoid suicidality talk, skip 21:00-23:30.

Buy ¡Hola Papi! wherever books are sold (lol) and subscribe to the ¡Hola Papi! Substack (I do!). Find JP's art and merch at holapapishop.com.

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

Tuck chats with Maddy Court (she/her), author of The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend Is My Girlfriend, in the first half of this special two-part queer advice episode.

Topics include:

• Good(!) advice for meeting people w/o using Tinder
• The bright spots of being single 
• *~*~*horny summer~*~*~ hot tips?
• Is everyone having more sex than us?! 
• Plus: grotesque feminism, queer scarcity, and imagining sexier futures

This Week in Gender: The Dept. of Education says that Title IX protects trans students, and the VA pledges to cover gender confirming surgeries. (Hear a trans vet's thoughts on military service in Episode 64.)

Buy The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend Is My Girlfriend anywhere books are sold, and support Maddy's work by subscribing to the Xena Worrier Princess Substack (I do!).

Find Maddy's good gay memes on Instagram @xenaworrierprincess. We're also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Bistitchual! 

Tuck catches up with zine-maker and pornographer Carta Monir (she/her). Topics include:

• What porn archives can teach us about queer history
• From castration fantasies to making fan merch for your dick
• Kink at pride(?!) and the evolution of queer debates
• Plus: Topping fears, machine-f*cking, unauthorized Girl with the Dragon Tattoo sequels, and CATS (1998)

This Week in Gender: Los Gibities.

Find Carta's work at cartamonir.com and DiskettePress.com. Carta is on OnlyFans (onlyfans.com/carta), Patreon (patreon.com/carta), Twitter (@cartamonir, @XXXcartaXXX) and Instagram (@cartamonir). 

Listen to Untold Stories: Beyond the Binary here or watch it on YouTube.

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Bistitchual! 

Tuck catches up with nonbinary linguist Kirby Conrod (they/them). Topics include: 

• Are pronoun-go-arounds for cis people?
• Gender as a local social relationship 
• Neurodivergent life hacks 
• Writing a dissertation about they/them pronouns
• Plus: wizard gender! 

This Week in Gender: NYC Pride has banned GOAL from marching in the parade for the next four years.

Find Kirby's work on their website (kirbyconrod.com), their blog (kconrod.medium.com), and their twitter (@kirbyconrod).

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman 
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Calm and Collected" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Hey everyone! Sorry for the late notice, but our grant program is open now through April 30. More details in this tiny episode. 

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

Tuck speaks with activist and author Jeffrey Marsh (they/them). (CW: mentions of transphobia and suicidality.) Topics include: 

• Why labels can't fix bigotry
• Talking about transness on conservative TV
• Dealing with transphobic internet comments
• Is feeling fake or alone fundamental to being trans?
• Plus: Mr. Rogers, Tumblr, Buddhism, Jeffrey's next book, and getting angry about shoes. 

This Week in Gender: Parents in England can now consent to puberty blockers on their children's behalf, creating a loophole in Bell v. Tavistock.

Find episode transcripts and our new FAQ page at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal. 

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Palms Down" and "Calm and Collected" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck speaks with Francisco J. Galarte (he/him). Dr. Galarte is the author of Brown Trans Figurations and a founding editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.

 Topics include: 

• When to use (and avoid) the "x" in Latinx and Chicanx
• Why hate crime laws don't help trans people of color 
• Imagining a world for trans POC beyond invisibility and hyper-visibility
• What does masculinity even mean???
• Plus: fashion, evil deceivers, and our second consecutive reference to the Kardashians

This Week in Gender: Trans story tropes. For more, listen to our interview with Kai Cheng Thom.

Find episode transcripts and our new FAQ page at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal. 

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Palms Down" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck speaks with Torrey Peters (she/her), author of Detransition, Baby. Topics include: 

• A brief history of t4t tattoos
• The secrets of real-life trans supervillains
• Why Torrey's moving past trans separatism 
• Four generations of trans history buried in a twitter beef
• Plus: FTF transsexuals, disaster euphoria, writing better jokes, and why Torrey might be done writing about affairs with wealthy men

This Week in Gender: Mississippi bans trans women & girls from school sports.

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

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

• How do I come out to my boyfriend?
• Can cis people use X gender markers?
• Is a relationship automatically queer if someone is trans?
• What does it feel like to like your name?
• Do my birth certificate and license need to match?

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Producer: Mckenzee Griffler
Special thanks to Babette Thomas
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Happy (almost) Trans Day of Snack! We're explaining this weekend's mutual aid campaign (including FREE SNACKS for trans people in 26 US states) and sharing part two of our chat with Shuli Branson.

Sign up to receive your snack and/or financial aid at bit.ly/tdos24. View our list of trans resources at bit.ly/tdos24links. Spread the word!

Our full chat with Shuli is available here. (Part one is available here.)

Find Shuli at sjbranson.com and @shulibranson. Practical Anarchism is available from Pluto Press. Support The Breakup Theory on Patreon.

Get 25% off the Surviving the Future paperback or e-book with the coupon code GENDERREVEAL at pmpress.org this weekend.

Donate to our mutual aid/snack fund via PayPal or Venmo. (Put "TDoS" in the subject line plz.) Please donate to families fleeing Gaza at linktr.ee/fundsforgaza.

Our Trans Day of Snack merch is available through March 31 at bit.ly/gendermerch.

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Hensteeth" & "Road to Petersby" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: ShopEnby.com (code: GenderReveal) and DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

Tuck answers advice questions with Tehya (they/them), a nonbinary therapist. Topics include:

• Are my recent dysphoria feelings "real"? 
• Do I have to share my pronouns?
• How do I handle my partner's transphobic friend? 
• Why do I think I'm going to get dumped for having top surgery?
• Plus: sailing, cis binding, and a return to lesbianism. 

This Week in Gender: The Equality Act, Marjorie vs Marie, Dr. Levine vs Rand Paul, federal X markers, a win in Virginia, transphobia in Montana, nonbinary potatoes, Gallup lesbians, Lady Gaga's dogs, and Patti Harrison vs Nabisco.

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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck speaks with Noah Adams (he/him), co-author of Trans and Autistic. Topics include:

• Are transness and autism connected in some way?
• The compounding gatekeeping faced by autistic trans people
• The dark connections between ABA and queer conversion therapy
• The enduring legacy of Rain Man

This Week in Gender: Special guest Nina Medvedeva talks about the Euphoria app and trans venture capitalism. 

Purchase Trans and Autistic through Another Story (Canada) or Bookshop (US).

We're on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal. 

Browse our February merch collection at bit.ly/gendermerch.

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

Find our new FAQ page(!) and episode transcripts at genderpodcast.com.

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

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

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

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Welcome Home Sonny" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck speaks with culture and entertainment journalist Tre'vell Anderson (they/them). Topics include:

• What Black film history can tell us about the future of trans media
• Are those nonbinary TV characters actually nonbinary?
• Why don't some nonbinary people identify as trans?
• Should we be saying "All Black Lives Matter"? 
• Plus: identity gumbo and gender-okra soup

This Week in Gender: Several states are advancing anti-trans bills, in direct opposition to Biden's executive order boosting LGBTQ legal protections.

Subscribe to Tre'vell's podcast, FANTI.

We're on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal. 

Find our new FAQ page(!) at genderpodcast.com.

Browse our February merch collection at bit.ly/gendermerch.

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

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

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

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Single Still" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck speaks with artist, filmmaker, and cultural producer Zackary Drucker (she/her). Topics include:

• How a trans con artist taught Zackary to cut herself some slack 
• Telling complicated trans stories on TV
• Creating T4T representation before "T4T" was a thing
• Gender clownery with Flawless Sabrina 
• Plus: Commissioning a transphobia montage featuring Tucker Carlson's shitty dad

This Week in Gender: New York finally repeals its Walking While Trans law. 

The Lady and the Dale is streaming now on HBOMax. 

Zackary is on Instagram @zackarydrucker. We're also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal. 

Find transcripts of the show at genderpodcast.com.

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Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we'll read on the show. Today's message was from Em Solarova and "Person Who". 

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

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

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Thoughtless" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck speaks with Diamond Stylz (she/her), creator of Marsha's Plate and executive director of Black Trans Women Inc. Topics include:

• Does trans representation actually help trans people?
• Why trans equity trainings don't work
• The importance of spurning sea lions and building community
• How Lauryn Hill (of all people) helped Diamond embrace her voice
• How to be a true ally & co-conspirator 
• Plus: Coming out in the '90s, finding a HRT specialist in the yellow pages and being a trans YouTuber in 2008.

BONUS! Other Black queer podcasts Diamond recommends: Box No. 512 Podcast: Grown Black Trans Women Talk; Inner Hoe Uprising; QueerWOC; Tea with Queen and J.

This Week in Gender: We revisit Paige Kreisman's views on trans military service and celebrate the singular talent of SOPHIE.

Support Diamond's work by donating at blacktranswomen.org/donate and supporting Marsha's Plate on Patreon. 

You can find Diamond on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube @DiamondStylz. We're also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal. 

Find transcripts of the show at genderpodcast.com.

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

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

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

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

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Lumber Down" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck speaks with scholar and Trans Care author Hil Malatino (he/they). Topics include:

• Why we can't talk about gender without talking about race
• How Hil's intersex condition—and health insurance—influenced his transition
• Why debates about labels are debates about belonging
• Trans academia and the "cannibalization" of trans scholars
• Plus: Dad-as-gender, the best little boy in the world, and the difference between genders and Gender

This Week in Gender: Dr. Rachel Levine was nominated to be the US assistant secretary of health.

Support Hil's work by purchasing Trans Care from University of Minnesota Press and Queer Embodiment from University of Nebraska Press. There's also an open-access copy of Trans Care available here.

Authors cited: María Lugones, C. Riley Snorton (Black on Both Sides), Susan Stryker, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Care Work)

You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@gendereveal). Find transcripts of the show at genderpodcast.com.

Browse our January merch collection at bit.ly/gendermerch. (Hurry; everything leaves the store on 1/31.)

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

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

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

Special thanks to Sharif Youssef and Cass Adair
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Highway 430" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck speaks with multimedia artist and Black Feast founder Salimatu Amabebe (he/they).

Topics include:

• Feeling denied access to "womanhood" as a Black person
• Loving your body as a trans person
• Dating advice! 
• "I don't really want terms that apply to me"
• Plus: Salimatu pitches you his food-dom TV pilot 

This Week in Gender: Bell v Tavistock. 

Support Salimatu's work via Venmo (@blackfeast) or Cash App (@blackfeast, @salimatuamabebe). Follow Salimatu on IG @black.feast and @salimatuamabebe.

We're also on Twitter and Instagram (@gendereveal). 

Find transcripts of the show at genderpodcast.com.

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

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we'll read on the show. Today's message was from Heebie Jeebies Jewelry.

Browse our limited-edition merch collection at bit.ly/gendermerch. (Hurry, everything leaves the store on 1/31.)

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

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

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Blood Petal" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck speaks with lawyer and TLC-reality-special star Ari Robbins Greene (they/he). Topics include:

• Giving birth on a TV show
• Pregnancy advice for transmasculine folks 
• Raising babies without gendering them 
• Fighting to get insurance companies to cover FFS
• Plus: telling your coworkers about your secret vagina 

This Week in Gender: Democrats in Congress pass a resolution to de-gender terminology in the House Rules (via Snopes).

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. We also welcome donations via PayPal, Cash App, or Venmo. 

Find episode transcripts and other resources at genderpodcast.com. 

We're also on Twitter or Instagram @gendereveal. Our host is @tuckwoodstock. 

Browse our limited-edition merch collection at bit.ly/gendermerch. 

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

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

Special thanks this week to Ally Stoneham.

Editor: Babette Thomas
Producer: Isaura Aceves
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck speaks with author and community worker Kai Cheng Thom (she/her) in our longest episode ever. Topics include:

• The harm of problematic/pure and perpetrator/victim binaries
• The evolution of "femme" and "transsexual"
• The future of trans kids and class solidarity
• Losing faith, but not hope, in community justice
• Plus: Spicy trans memoir takes, Kai Cheng's secret Goop life, and being the only masters-credentialed trans woman therapist in Canada

This Week in Gender: A federal judge strikes down a transphobic policy in Ohio; Argentina now has a 1% employment quota for trans people in the public sector; and Joe Biden transes his transition team.  

Authors referenced: Mariame Kaba, Sarah Schulman, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, adrienne maree brown, Janet Mock, Imogen Binnie (Nevada)

Buy Kai Cheng's books: A Place Called No Homeland (poetry), Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (fiction), I Hope We Choose Love (essays) and From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea (picture book). 

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. We also welcome donations via PayPal, Cash App, or Venmo. 

Find episode transcripts and other resources at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Twitter or Instagram @gendereveal. Our host is @tuckwoodstock. 

Browse our limited-edition merch collection — including a new design by Maia Kobabe — at bit.ly/gendermerch. 

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

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

Special thanks this week to Erin Wade!
Producer: Isaura Aceves
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Donnalee" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck speaks with prison abolitionist and A.B.O. Comix cofounder Casper Cendre (he/they). 

Topics include:

• Becoming a better ally for incarcerated people. 
• Living in a place where physical intimacy is a crime.
• Gender-affirming surgeries and medical care in prison. 
• Are queer people usually "out" in prison?
• Plus: an update on how prisons are handling Covid-19 

This Week in Gender: It's the happiest season, baybee! We recommend this episode of the Bechdel Cast, guest-starring Jes Tom. 

Please help A.B.O. Comix's Holiday Commissary Fundraiser meet its goal! You can also order A.B.O. Comix anthologies and zines (and other fun merch) at abocomix.com. Sign up for a penpal at abocomix.com or blackandpinkpenpals.org or abolitionapostles.com.

Follow A.B.O Comix on IG (@a.b.o.comix). We're also on Twitter and Instagram (@gendereveal).

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. A.B.O. Comix is also on Patreon at patreon.com/abocomix. 

Browse our limited-edition merch collection at bit.ly/gendermerch, including "Abby and Riley should have made out in the dive bar" shirts. (Hurry, everything leaves the store on 12/31.)

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

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

Special thanks this week to Oliver Mills
Producer: Isaura Aceves
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "A Little Powder" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck chats with with writer Jamie Lauren Keiles (he/him). Topics include:

• Writing a nonbinary history book that eschews common trans identity rhetoric 
• Reporting on phallo and blowjob jokes for the New York Times Magazine 
• Why Jamie will never run another Most Transgender Name Competition 
• Why everyone in the trans community is annoying in different beautiful ways :) :) :)
• Plus: "Fake bi to real bi," best novelty license plates, and Chaz Bono shopping in Miami?

This Week in Gender: There's new work by Andrea Long Chu, Beans Velocci, Paisley Currah and Judith Butler… but we instead quote Sawyer Kemp, Lola Pellegrino and Foz Meadows. 

Find Jamie at jamielaurenkeiles.com and on Instagram and Twitter.

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

We've got limited-edition Trans Day of Snack 2024 merch on sale this month, with proceeds benefiting our mutual aid fund.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Syriah" & "The Odd About It" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: ShopEnby.com (code: GenderReveal) and DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

Tuck speaks with Oklahoma representative Mauree Turner (they/she), the first openly nonbinary state legislator in the United States. 

Topics include:

• Reimagining the justice system in the incarceration capital of the world.
• Working in spaces that weren't built to accommodate your existence. 
• The pros and cons of representing so many different identities while your white cis coworkers get to just, like, chill. 
• Dress codes.... they're bad! 
• Plus: Which Steven Universe character is Mauree? 

This Week in Gender: Send Christmas gifts to trans youth via @TranSanta.

Find Mauree on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok (@MaureeTurnerOK) and hear them chat with Imara Jones on the TransLash Podcast. We're also on Twitter and Instagram (@gendereveal).

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

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

Browse our limited-edition merch collection at bit.ly/gendermerch. (Hurry, everything leaves the store on 12/31.)

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

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

Special thanks this week to Oliver-Ash Kleine and Callie Wright

Producer: Isaura Aceves

Logo: Ira M. Leigh

Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

Additional Music: "Glass Runner" by Blue Dot Sessions

Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck answers our trickiest advice questions yet with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). 

Topics include:

• How do I stop caring about what cis people think?!? 
• What pronouns should I use for nonbinary people in languages they don't speak?
• What if I'm being misgendered at work but don't want to lose my job?
• Can you be a boy without being a man?
• Plus: Tuck really, really rips into some guy named Mike (and also Joe Biden?)

Remember, your gender isn't conditional on whether it makes people comfortable! :)

This Week in Gender: Tulsi Gabbard continues to be anti-LGBTQ.

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

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Browse our limited-edition merch at bit.ly/gendermerch. 

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We're on Twitter or Instagram @gendereveal. Our host is @tuckwoodstock. 

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Chopin Mazurka, Op. 50 No. 3, performed by Blue Dot Sessions
Producer: Isaura Aceves
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

In the Season 6 premiere, we speak with Imara Jones (she/her), founder of TransLash Media and host of the TransLash Podcast.

Topics include:

• Why trans rights are the secret to defeating patriarchy
• How to be a better ally to Black trans people
• Why trans folks are essential leaders for building better futures
• The saga of Imara's open letter to BET 
• Plus: we're angry about needing to be angry

This Week in Gender: Celebrating the life of Monica Roberts, creator of TransGriot.

Browse our limited-edition merch collection at bit.ly/gendermerch. (Hurry, everything leaves the store on 12/31.)

We now have transcriptions available for every episode from Season 1-5, as well as "starter packs" for folks new to the show. Find them at genderpodcast.com 

We're on Twitter or Instagram @gendereveal. You can also follow our host's reporting at @tuckwoodstock.

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. We also welcome donations via PayPal, Cash App, or Venmo. Thank you!

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we'll read on the show. Today's message was by @jay.genesis.art.

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

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

Thanks to Isaura Aceves, Montana Thomas and Oliver-Ash Kleine for production help this week.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh

Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

Additional Music: "SuzyB" by Blue Dot Sessions

Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

In this tiny bonus episode, Tuck makes a big announcement about Season 6, and recommends a few podcasts to listen to while you wait:

• Tuck on Behind the Bastards (part one)
• Tuck on LGBTQ&A
• TransLash podcast
• Marsha's Plate

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Season Six is on the way! Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards, and to support our grant/mutual aid program. 

Learn more about Tuck's trans-focused equity consulting company at Sylveon.co.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh

Theme Song: Breakmaster Cylinder

In which Tuck whispers to you in their closet for what might be one four-minute run-on sentence. 

Share the last thing that brought you joy (or just browse a lot of very good animal photos): https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1323663746506485760

Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org

Trevor Project: https://www.thetrevorproject.org

21 trans candidates running for office this fall: https://www.mic.com/p/meet-all-21-openly-trans-candidates-running-for-office-this-fall-40830735

I love you.

This week, Tuck belatedly announces our latest grant program and mutual aid fund. (Applications due by 10/31.) Then, we listen to Jeffrey Masters interview Laverne Cox on acclaimed queer interview podcast LGBTQ&A.

Apply to the Black/Indigenous Trans and Two-Spirit Grant Program: bit.ly/GR20grant

Apply to the BIPOC Trans Mutual Aid Fund: bit.ly/GR20aid

Learn more about our grant program: genderpodcast.com/grant

Help us fund more mutual aid payments! Send payments via Venmo (@Tuck-Woodstock), Cash App ($TuckWoodstock) or PayPal.

Browse our limited-edition spooky gender merch: bit.ly/gendermerch

Listen to LGBTQ&A wherever you listen to Gender Reveal.

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You can reach us at genderpodcast.com or on Twitter or Instagram. You can also follow Tuck at @tuckwoodstock.

Season Six is on the way! Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards, and to support our grant/mutual aid program. 

Learn more about Tuck's trans-focused equity consulting company at Sylveon.co.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh

Theme Song: Breakmaster Cylinder

This week, Tuck chats a bit before sharing an episode of the TransLash Podcast, a new show that covers news, culture and politics from a trans perspective, hosted by Peabody and Emmy-award-winning journalist Imara Jones.

In this episode, Imara Jones talks with Kai Wright, who hosts WNYC's The United States of Anxiety, about the links between transphobia, the history of fear in America and the 2020 elections. Plus, Marquise Vilson, a Black-trans actor and activist, opens up about the importance of transmasculine representation and using his platform to combat violence against trans women of color.

Subscribe to the TransLash Podcast wherever you listen to this show, and learn more at translash.org. 

This Week in Gender: "Woman who popularized the gender reveal party says enough already after latest wildfire" via CNN.

We have brand-new merch in the shop available through September 15 at bit.ly/gendermerch.

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You can reach us at genderpodcast.com or on Twitter or Instagram. You can also follow our host's reporting at @tuckwoodstock.

Season Six is on the way! Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards, and to support our grant/mutual aid program. 

Learn more about Tuck's trans-focused equity consulting company at Sylveon.co.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh

Theme Song: Breakmaster Cylinder

Production Help: Oliver-Ash Kleine

This week, Tuck shares an excerpt from Transcripts, a new trans activism podcast by the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project.

Subscribe to Transcripts wherever you get podcasts. Find transcripts of Transcripts (lol) at bit.ly/transcriptspod. Donate to Brave Space Alliance and Black Transwomen Inc.

This episode features hosts Myrl Beam (Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Minnesota) and Andrea Jenkins (Minneapolis City Council) plus guests LaSaia Wade, founder of the Brave Space Alliance, Diamond Stylz of Black Transwomen Inc., Gabriel Foster, founder of the Trans Justice Funding Project, Rickke Mananzala, former Executive Director of FIERCE, and Dean Spade, founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.

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Season Six is on the way! Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. We also welcome donations via PayPal, Cash App, or Venmo (Tuck-Woodstock). Thank you!

Learn more about Tuck's trans-focused equity consulting company at Sylveon.co.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh

Theme Song: Breakmaster Cylinder

In the Season 5 finale (finally!!!), we celebrate Leo season by speaking with audio producer, stand-up comic and drag queen Hideo Higashibaba (he/him). [CW: mentions of suicide (40-41:20)]

Topics include:

• What you might not understand about "chosen family"
• Growing up in a cult that hates queer and trans people
• Rebuilding yr entire framework for understanding the world, from scratch. 
• Being a transfemme man (and discovering that via drag)
• Plus: "The only practical idea I've ever had"

This Week in Gender: "The Tale of Queer Appalachia" in the Washington Post. Check the Queer Appalachia website and IG page for updates. We also mention this Netflix tweet. 

Find Hideo on Instagram at @dr_miyazaki and @punchupnc, and listen to his seven-part podcast, Growing Up Moonie.

Take a peek at our merch shop at bit.ly/gendermerch, or submit your own design to gendereveal@gmail.com.

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. We also welcome donations via PayPal, Cash App, or Venmo (Tuck-Woodstock). Thank you!

You can reach us at genderpodcast.com or on Twitter or Instagram. You can also follow our host's reporting at @tuckwoodstock.

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

Learn more about Tuck's trans-focused equity consulting company at Sylveon.co.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh

Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

Additional Music: "That Horse Ithica" and "Sino de Cobre" by Blue Dot Sessions

Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

In this bonus episode, Tuck says hi because they miss you and everything happens so much.

Other media referenced:

• Tuck on OPB's Think Out Loud (with Sergio Olmos)
• Strange Fruit podcast
• Marsha's Plate podcast
• Tuck on KPCC's AirTalk (with Chris David)
• Tuck on KPFA's Upfront
• "Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets"

Great episodes from Season 5 (for new listeners):

• Morgan Givens
• Alyssa Pariah
• Vidhya Aravind
• Daniel M. Lavery
• Cyrus Dunham

Follow Tuck's reporting on Twitter @tuckwoodstock.

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder (the full theme! lucky you!)
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck and Ozzy chat with Liz Fong-Jones (she/her). Topics include:

• Creating a Coworker Solidarity Fund to support worker organizing and potential strikes
• Organizing your Google colleagues so hard that you crash Google Docs
• Being realistic about your security threats (e.g., is it safe to organize in Google Docs?)
• Ways that (trans & cis) tech workers can support trans people 
• Plus: How the Joy Luck Club (not that one) saved her life

This Week in Gender: Listen to Hang Up.

Find Liz at lizthegrey.com and on cohost.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we'll read on the show. Today's message was from Wren Dove Lark.

We've got limited-edition Trans Day of Snack 2024 merch on sale this month, with proceeds benefiting our mutual aid fund.

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

Find our 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: "Hrse Hrse" & "Gamboler" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: ShopEnby.com (code: GenderReveal) and DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

This week, we speak with nonbinary advocate Addison Rose Vincent (they/them). Topics include:

• Rushing sororities as the only trans person on campus
• Being a transfeminine person with a full beard
• Working at Disneyland as a nonbinary person
• Becoming a full-time trans advocate
• Plus: the double-edged sword of trans visibility

This Week in Gender: Disclosure (2020); Transcripts podcast; "The International Trans Person Helpline" on Jacobin's Antibody; "The Toilets at Home Are All Gender Neutral" on Short Cuts; and Graham Linehan getting banned from Twitter.

Find Addison's work at @breakthebinary, Break the Binary LLC and the Nonbinary and Intersex Recognition Project.

Tuesday is your LAST CHANCE to shop our limited-edition Pride Month merch at bit.ly/gendermerch. Proceeds go to great causes like BLM, Black Visions Collective, and Trans Lifeline.

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

Support our work! Share any amount at patreon.com/gender to receive our weekly newsletter. We also welcome donations via PayPal or Cash App. Thank you!

You can reach us at genderpodcast.com or on Twitter or Instagram. You can also follow our host's reporting at @tuckwoodstock.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck rambles for fifteen consecutive minutes (oops!), then shares their conversation with Callie Wright about media literacy, passive voice, "objectivity," and whether you can trust media coverage of protests. 

This interview first aired on the Queersplaining podcast on June 9.

This Week In Gender: SCOTUS LGBTQ decision! Learn more by reading Katelyn Burns' article on the topic and listening to the Queersplaining episode on the same topic, featuring an actual expert.

Other podcasts referenced in today's intro:

• Tuck's Life Kit episode, 4 Ways To Make Your Workplace Equitable For Trans People.
• A three-minute version of the same episode for All Things Considered.
• Tuck on Oregon Public Broadcasting's news roundtable.

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh

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Tuck gives a quick overview of the many breaking trans news stories from the last few days. Then, we revisit our conversation with activist and labor organizer Alyssa Pariah (she/her). Topics include:

• How the Black Lives Matter movement supports trans liberation better than many LGBTQ orgs
• How bail funds can save Black trans lives
• Coping with survivor's guilt as a 32-year-old trans woman of color
• Also: an army of trans bitches in the class war!

This Week In Gender: The Trump administration's short-lived rollback of healthcare anti-discrimination protections; today's SCOTUS decision (sort of!); Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells; Riah Milton; Layleen Polanco Xtravaganza; and more.

Learn more about the Black Trans Protesters Emergency Fund; Black & Pink; TJI Justice Project; Audre Lorde Project; Don't Shoot PDX; Critical Resistance; Pride at Work; and Jobs with Justice. (Also, never cross a picket line!)   

We've got LOADS of NEW, limited edition Pride Month merch at bit.ly/gendermerch. (Proceeds go to great causes like BLM, Black Visions Collective, and Trans Lifeline.) 

Support Tuck's reporting and full-time gender detective gig! Pledge any amount at patreon.com/gender to receive our weekly newsletter. We also appreciate donations via PayPal or Cash App.

Learn more about Tuck's trans-focused equity consulting company at Sylveon.co.

You can reach us at genderpodcast.com or on Twitter or Instagram.

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

Production help: Mckenzee Griffler (she/her)

Logo: Ira M. Leigh

Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

Additional music: "Our Fingers Cold" by Blue Dot Sessions

Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!