What The Trans!? – Details, episodes & analysis

In this special, mostly light-hearted end-of-year retrospective, we look at all that happened in 2024. The good, the bad, the complicated, the profane, the ugly and the yawning chasm of the human soul!!

Featuring:

• Album, film, television show and video game of the year.
• Worst news story, loser and villain the the year. 
• Best news story, ally and coming-out of the year!
• Ally, journalist and activist of the year,

And many more!

Explore our voting numbers (featuring pie charts!) 

References: https://whatthetrans.com/ep121

For this New Year's Day episode of What the Trans?! USA, Clementine talks to Evan Urqhart of Assigned Media about the recent Supreme Court case.

Assigned Media

Evan Urqhart

On this week's episode of What the Trans!? Flint, Alyx and Ashleigh spend precious minutes of their lives talking about:

• The Levy Review into adult gender services.
• Updated definitions and diagnostic criteria for trans people in Japan.
• Our regular trip to Loser's Corner.
• The BMA confirming that they will conduct their review of the Cass Review (ding!) "from a position of neutrality"
• Following the resignation of Labours' Rosie Duffield, the team talk through some of her 'greatest hits' and her often-underwhelming performance as an MP

References: https://whatthetrans.com/ep115/

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This week:

The press has published easily debunkable lies (again...)

We talk trans and non-binary people WINNING AT THINGS!

And we talk to Jennie Kermode from Trans Media Watch about how, and even if trans and non-binary people should 

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Screw "royalty," there is only one queen this Christmas and she is Ashleigh! Here is her Christmas message for the trans community!

Merry Christmas everyone!

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This week we are joined by Vic Parsons (PinkNews.co.uk gender & identity reporter) to commiserate over more Tory rule. We talk:

How do we report on this?

Why is everyone in the media lying about trans issues?

Can there be too much cheese?

Also we talk JK Rowling's heel turn against the trans community, more equality act attacks and Scotland having ANOTHER GRA reform consultation.

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This week

To cushion the blow of the worst goddam election result, we put together an hour of tales about trans heroes and how you can keep it together for the fights to come!

Also:

Graham Linehan could win "d**k of the year"!

Big dictionary names "They" as their word of the year!

Marvel comics FINALLY gets a trans superhero (sort of).

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This week (and every week till someone stops us):

India has a bad trans bill!

Christie Elan-Cane could get us X gender markers in passports!

We chat with Helen Belcher, Liberal Democrat candidate for Chippenham and maybe the UK's first trans MP!

And can pigeons be friends?

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This...week (we are weekly now!)

The manifestos are out! Which parties suck the least?

Michelle grills LGBT Labour, Lib Dem Jasmine Josephine and trans campaigner/author/legend Christine Burns for their take on this general election nonsense.

And Ashleigh really, really, REALLY needs you not to vote tory.

Seriously.

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It is the spooky season, so Ash talks magic, queers and witches!

Former minister appears to reveal the results of the gender recognition act consultation. Why didn't anyone else report this?

A General election is coming: who shouldn't you vote for?

And a Stonewall founder is attacking the trans community! We talk to Stonewall founders Lisa Power and Duncan Campbell for their take!

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