Gender Reveal (Tuck Woodstock)

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with cartoonist Carta Monir (she/her). Topics include:

• Why comics are an ideal medium to talk about trans identity.
• Coming out to a dying parent.
• Rethinking Trans Day of Remembrance.
• Creating trans community in your very own town.
• Plus: the power of selfies!

CW: death of a parent (22-27) and murder/death of trans folks (30-34 min)

Learn more about our This Week in Gender topic here.

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Find Carta at cartamonir.com and diskettepress.com, as well as on Twitter and Instagram. Please consider supporting her work at patreon.com/carta.

Read Carta’s comic about gender and disability for the Nib.

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 Questions? Comments? Feelings? You can reach us at genderpodcast.com; via gendereveal@gmail.com; or on Twitter or Instagram. You can also submit questions anonymously here.

We greatly appreciate donations via Patreon or PayPal or Cash App. Donate $5+ to receive stickers and other fun stuff. 

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

Tuck catches up with organizer Jerika Che (they/them). Topics include:

• Creating an abolitionism-inspired trans summer camp
• What’s up with all the gender-segregated trans picnics?
• Advice for creating your own trans community events 
• Learning to successfully collaborate with co-organizers
• Plus: Xenogenders, Transoween, and Warrior Cats?

This Week in Gender: The Girls & Gays Movie Corner (lol)

Find Jerika’s events at seattletransjoy.com and @seattletransjoy.

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today’s messages were from Joce Ryder/Gentlethem and the podcast Cruising.

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Find our FAQ page, starter packs and transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

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

Tuck shares an exciting 2 Trans 2 Furious update before chatting with Arlie Adlington (he/him) about queer labor solidarity, Pride movie recs, and normal tea. 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Arlie talk about working with Sam Smith, navigating the world of UK t-shots, and writing an important song about beverages (before Sabrina Carpenter did it, even!)

See you at the Bell House on Thursday for our Pride™ live show! 

(Oh and here’s the video that Casey took hehe.)

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

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter, plus stickers and other rewards. Cancel Me, Daddy  is also on Patreon (patreon.com/cancelmedaddy).

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

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 speaks with activist and labor organizer Alyssa Pariah (she/her) at Gender Reveal’s first live show. Topics include:

• What trans healthcare would look like under Medicare for All
• How to be a better ally/accomplice for sex workers
• How the Black Lives Matter movement supports trans liberation better than many LGBTQ orgs
• Coping with survivor’s guilt as a 32-year-old trans woman of color
• What will it take to end trans oppression?
• Also: an army of trans bitches in the class war!

This Week In Gender: We discuss state legislatures’ attempts to block trans kids from transitioning (3:30-6:30). Read the referenced Katelyn Burns article on Vox and Laura Thompson’s article on Mother Jones. Emoji news is via Emojipedia.

Learn more about the Audre Lorde Project; Don’t Shoot PDX; Critical Resistance; Pride at Work; and Jobs with Justice. (Also, never cross a picket line!)   

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We’ve got NEW, limited-edition merch that raises money for trans designers & LGBTQ orgs! Browse our shirts, stickers, totes and more at bit.ly/gendermerch.

Support Tuck's new 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.

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

Questions? Comments? Feelings? You can reach us at genderpodcast.com or on Twitter or Instagram.

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.

Production help: Mckenzee Griffler 

Logo: Ira M. Leigh

Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

Additional music: “The Back Lot” and “Sylvestor” by Blue Dot Sessions

Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

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.

Find Fran @fransquishco and on the Like a Virgin meme page @likeavirgin42069.

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

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

Find episode transcripts and starter packs for new listeners at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
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)

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.

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. 

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

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

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s messages were from Galaxy Community Circle and Person Who.

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

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Palms Down” by Blue Dot Sessions
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:

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!

Tuck speaks with DEI strategist Lily Zheng (they/them). Topics include: 

• Why pizza can be more useful than a 60-minute workshop
• Can we DEI our way out of transphobic workplaces?
• What makes allyship performative? (It’s not what you think!)
• Should corporations be hosting Trans Day of Remembrance events?
• Plus: does DEI work delay the proletarian revolution??

This Week in Gender: an exclusive Gender Conceal clip with Kirby Conrod about all things -ussy.  

Find Lily at lilyzheng.co and on LinkedIn.

Listen to Tuck on NPR’s It’s Been a Minute.

Tickets for our Feb. 1 Brooklyn live show are on sale now! 

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show.

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

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

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

Tuck speaks with actor Vico Ortiz (they/he/she), whose credits include American Horror Story, Vida, and These Thems. Topics include:

• Auditioning for roles as a genderfluid actor
• Exploring femininity as a Backstreet Boys-inspired drag king?
• The evolution of gender-inclusive Spanish…
• …and translating nonbinary jokes into Spanish subtitles
• Plus: gender as a waterbed?

This Week in Gender: Rest in power, Aimee Stephens. (Linked article by our friend Katelyn Burns.)

Support Tuck's full-time gender detective gig!  Pledge any amount at patreon.com/gender to receive our weekly newsletter.

We’re still accepting donations to the trans mutual aid fund via PayPal or Cash App. Thank you!

We’ve got NEW merch (and restocked favorites) in the shop until May 31 at bit.ly/gendermerch. 

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

Questions? Comments? Feelings? You can reach us at genderpodcast.com or on Twitter or Instagram.

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: “Come As You Are” by Blue Dot Sessions

Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck checks in with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). Topics include: 

• Speedrunning gender
• Special girl bottom surgery
• Getting comfortable with public voice training
• Finally not thinking about gender at all times constantly(!)
• Plus: toe gender, breakfast sandwich crimes, and gender podcast good actually?! 

This Week in Gender: Unholy underwhelms Satanists, per TMZ. (Learn more on Eating for Free.)

Find Mckenzee at mckenzeegriffler.com and opensanctuary.org. Her Gender Conceal advice episode is available on our Patreon.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s messages were from New Cosmologies and Israel Lopez.

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

Join the Gender Detectives Slack here. (Link expires in 3 weeks.)

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

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Lo Margin” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

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 :)

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

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

Find episode transcripts and starter packs for new listeners at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

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

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) and Rev Nat’s (promo code: SNACKS)

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with Caitlin Benedict (they/them), creator of the BBC’s NB podcast. Topics include:

• Airing your gender journey on national radio(!)
• LGBTQ rights in London and Australia
• Nonbinary vs non-black vs nota bene
• The euphoria of denim jackets

Listen to NB on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts.

 Support Gender Reveal by buying pins from Stick to Resist.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show.

Join the Gender Detectives Slack here!

 Questions? Comments? Feelings? You can reach us at genderpodcast.com; via gendereveal@gmail.com; or on Twitter or Instagram. You can also submit questions anonymously here.

We greatly appreciate donations via Patreon or PayPal or Cash App. Donate $5+ to receive stickers and other fun stuff. 

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Kallaloe” 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. 

Find episode transcripts and starter packs for new listeners at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

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

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter, plus stickers 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 Nectar: Trans Femme and Non Binary Erotic Comics Anthology.

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

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

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! 

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

Buy live show tickets at https://gendernyc.bpt.me.

Browse our limited-edition August merch in our nonprofit merch shop at bit.ly/gendermerch.

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

Find episode transcripts and starter packs for new listeners at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

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

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 writer Lucy Sante (she/her). Topics include: 

• Why Lucy finally transitioned after avoiding it for nearly 60 years
• Why the worst trans memoirs are like pre-cooked bacon
• What does it mean to identify as a bohemian?
• Reading about the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries in the newspaper as a high school student
• Plus: Trans lit recs; vibe shifts at the Strand; and how Harry Potter ruined a visit to a Portuguese bookstore

This Week in Gender: Cecilia at St. Patrick’s. (Full video on YouTube. Read more in Vogue. More photos via Time. Here’s a recap of the aftermath. Most importantly, donate to the Legacy Fund!)

Find Lucy at lucysante.com. I Heard Her Call My Name is available now.

Other texts referenced:

• Low Life by Lucy Sante 
• Nevada by Imogen Binnie
• Andrea Long Chu (generally)
• Can the Monster Speak? by Paul Preciado
• I Want What I Want by Geoff Brown
• April Ashley’s Odyssey by Duncan Fallowell & April Ashley 
• Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
• Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• An Anecdoted Topography of Chance by Daniel Spoerri
• A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
• Maybe the People Would Be the Times by Lucy Sante
• “Commerce” by Lucy Sante (link)

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s message was from Tiny Parade Coaching.

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

Find our FAQ page, starter packs and transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Vulcan Street” & “Douglass Stairs” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Popwink (code: GENDER20) and DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

Tuck chats with filmmaker and intersex activist River Gallo (they/them). Topics include: 

• Making cinema history with (and getting force-femmed by?) Indya Moore 
• How to reckon with the fact that yr genitals are on Wikipedia 
• Why growing up in restaurants made Tuck & River into storytellers
• Evolving Ponyboi from experimental John Waters-y play to Sundance-premiering comedy thriller 
• Plus: Trans Hamlet, trans Bruce Springsteen, trans Totoro, real New Jersey, and the Huff & Puff Queen.  

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today’s messages were from Trans Sexual Pod and I. E. Lewis Editorial.

Find River @rivergallo and keep an eye out for Ponyboi to hit theaters. 

Get your Philly live show tickets! 

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Find transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

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

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. 

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

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

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

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 This Review Kills Fascists.

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

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.

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

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

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

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s message was from Camp Aranu'tiq's Building Fund.

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

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

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

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. 

Find us on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal and at genderpodcast.com. You can also follow Tuck at @tuckwoodstock.

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

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

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

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

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) 

Tuck and Ozzy chat with writer Vera Blossom (she/her). Topics include:

• Being the hottest girlie at the men-only bathhouse
• Writing a memoir-grimoire complete with magic spells
• What did estrogen teach Vera about the life cycle of pigeons???
• Is Shrek the ideal man? (And are straight roommates queer-coded?)
• Plus: Las Vegas, Pokemon boarding school online role-play, and the ghost of the gay guy who previously owned Vera’s bread machine 

This Week in Gender: We revisit past interviews with Dean Spade and Chase Strangio and recommend reading “literally what can we do.”

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today’s messages were from et al. Scholars and Max Burns UX.

Find Vera @cuteflesh and at howtofucklikeagirl.com. How to Fuck Like a Girl is available now at bookshop.org. 

We’re on tour this week! Any tickets left are at genderpodcast.com/live. 

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Find transcripts and more at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Additional help from Lil Gael Montevecchi
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: “Spinning Meter” 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.

Welcome to our first official Gender Reveal interview! In this episode, we speak to Brooklyn musician Nicholas Cummins (they/them), founder of the band Fits. We also unveil our new segment, “This Week in Gender.”

Topics include:

• Touring with PWR BTTM (yikes!)
• How the debate over women-only spaces “tore a schism through all of queerness”
• Using they/them pronouns with Pitchfork
• Riding a bike in a dress for the first time
• What the hell does “women and femmes” mean?

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here. 

Questions? Hit us up at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter @gendereveal, and we’ll answer on the show as soon as possible. And of course, we always appreciate donations at patreon.com/gender or PayPal or Cash App.

Find Fits on Bandcamp or on Twitter @hahafits. (And buy their record, it’s real cute and good!) Find Nicholas on Twitter and Instagram.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Gladrags (coupon code: “GENDER”) and TomboyX (coupon code: “TOMBOYS”)

Happy Pride! In this week’s episode, Tuck answers listener questions with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). Topics include:

• Deciding whether to start HRT
• Folks vs. folx (vs. dudex)
• He/him lesbians
• Safe binding tips
• Can cis people have dysphoria?
• And more!

Learn more about our This Week in Gender topic here.

Find the Rachel Anspach article that Mckenzee mentioned on them.us. 

Pledge any amount at patreon.com/gender to receive our weekly newsletter!

Join the Gender Detectives Slack here!

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show.

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

Questions? Comments? Feelings? You can reach us at genderpodcast.com; via gendereveal@gmail.com; or on Twitter or Instagram.

We greatly appreciate donations via Patreon or PayPal or Cash App. Donate $5+ to receive stickers and other fun stuff. 

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Campfire Rounds” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

In this week’s episode, Tuck answers listener questions with filmmaker and activist Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). Topics include:

• Personal gender identity vs. societal gender roles
• Trans folks with internalized transphobia
• Non-binary parenting
• Can a non-binary person mansplain?

Read more about our This Week in Gender topics here and here.

Questions/feedback/feelings? Hit us up at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter @gendereveal. You can also submit questions anonymously here.

And of course, we always appreciate donations at patreon.com/gender or PayPal or Cash App.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Gladrags and Open Hand Health— let them know we sent you!

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with cis writer, comedian, podcaster and actress Gaby Dunn (she/her). [Content note: passing mentions of suicide (19:50) and domestic violence (22:50)]. Topics include: 

• Is “born this way” a concept invented to placate straight cis folks?
• (Almost) breaking the law via through gender nonconformity
• Financial advice for queer and trans folks
• Does “bisexual” exclude nonbinary folks?
• Advice for cis people, by cis people
• Causing controversy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Learn more about our This Week in Gender topic here.

Preorder Gaby’s new book here, listen to her podcast here, and follow her on Instagram @gabyroad.

Send us your comments, questions, and feelings via gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter. You can also submit questions anonymously here.

We greatly appreciate donations via Patreon or PayPal or Cash App. Donate $5+ to receive stickers and other fun stuff.

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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

In this week’s episode, we speak with cartoonist and generally hilarious person Joey Alison Sayers (she/her). (CW: depression, suicidality, substance abuse @ 30-38 min) Topics include:

• Brain changes after transitioning
• Getting called “sir” at the deli
• Depression and antidepressant stigma
• Coming out to coworkers through comics
• Talking to the youth! (Spoiler: the youth are lucky jerks.)

Plus, we made this tiny art thing out of an inspiring quote from this interview: Check it out!

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here. 

Find Joey Alison Sayers at her website or on Twitter (@joeyalison).

Questions/feedback/feelings? Hit us up at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter @gendereveal. You can also submit questions anonymously here. And of course, we always appreciate donations at patreon.com/gender or PayPal or Cash App.

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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Gladrags and Open Hand Health— let them know we sent you!

Tuck speaks with māhū artist Lehuauakea (they/them). Topics include: 

• Should you be going to Hawaii????
• Being cornered, exotified and spat on(!) by white patrons
• Native Hawaiian gender terms and cultural roles
• The past, present, and future of kapa-making
• Plus: Finding faith that the world will continue to exist, lol?

This Week in Gender: More about drivers license gender markers, including stats from California and another story from Rosemary. 

Find Lehuauakea’s work at lehuauakea.com and @_lehuauakea_ on IG. (The account Lehuauakea recommends in the ep is @ainamomona.)

Tickets for our Feb. 1 Brooklyn live show are on sale now!

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

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

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Pat Dog” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Bluestockings and DeleteMe (promo code: TUCK20)

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 catches up with cultural critic Soleil Ho (they/them). Topics include: 

• Doing secret drag at an anti-trans fundraising dinner
• Should we abolish restaurants?
• Why insisting on “authentic” recipes is... fascist 
• Soleil’s takes that are too spicy for a mainstream newspaper
• Plus: Strikes at the pronoun factory and worldwide socialist revolution

This Week in Gender: Breaking down a new study about top surgery regret (or a complete lack thereof). 

Find Soleil at soleilho.com and read their work at SFChronicle.com.

ONE WEEK LEFT! Get your tickets to our August 28 live show! 

2 Trans 2 Furious PDFs and physical copies available via BigCartel.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s message was from LaurSurgery.BigCartel.com

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

Find us genderpodcast.com and @gendereveal.

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Kern PKL” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Queer Candle Co. (promo code: GENDER10)

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with musician Mal Blum (they/them). Topics include:

• Is NYC Pride™ evil?
• Depression tips (and how medication doesn’t fix being constantly misgendered)
• Questioning the value systems of gay bars
• Uploading your gender onto the server!

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here, here, here, and here.

Read Mal’s Autostraddle article about NYC Pride here.

Send us your comments, questions, and feelings at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter. You can also submit questions anonymously here.

We greatly appreciate donations via Patreon or PayPal or Cash App. Donate $5+ to receive stickers in the mail!

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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck, Mattie (she/they) and Calvin (he/him) attempt to answer two questions: 

1. What is Gender Ordeal?
2. Why are they doing it?

Along the way, we also reveal the amount of time that Tuck can be emotionally available on a plane, and how many years you have to stay married before you earn a watch. 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of gender-swapped holes, erotic landlord chocolate, a new definition of bi vs gay, the world's largest ball of sisal twine, furry-owned pants stores, Mattie’s secret tour talent, puppy girl representation, and what gay guys are doing over there. 

Find us on tour! We're in DC THIS FRIDAY and on the west coast Feb 10-12. Come have fun for an hour why not?

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

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with Kirby Conrod (they/them), a PhD candidate in linguistics. Among other subjects, Kirby specifically studies the use of they/them pronouns.  Topics include:

• Tips for folks who struggle with they/them pronouns.
• Reasons why those folks might be struggling more than other people.
• Being a nonbinary person in academia.
• Coming into a nonbinary identity in Taiwan.
• What is syntax?!?

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here and here.

Read Kirby’s Medium post: “How to do the absolute minimum (with pronouns)”.

Questions/feedback/feelings? Hit us up at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter. You can also submit questions anonymously here.

We always appreciate donations at patreon.com/gender or PayPal or Cash App. If you donate $5 or more, we'll send you stickers and an extra surprise.

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

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with LaTisha “Tish” Rico (she/they). LaTisha is Diné (Navajo) and originally from Na' Neelzhin (Torreon, New Mexico). They identify as an Indigenous feminist and vegan straight edge.  

Topics include:

• Decolonizing gender
• Growing up in a matriarchy
• Living in a culture with 4+ genders
• Working with youth to unlearn toxic masculinity
• How “the future is nonbinary” erases Indigenous history

You can find Tish through No! to Rape Culture and their new band, With War.

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here.

Questions/feedback/feelings? Hit us up at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter @gendereveal. You can also submit questions anonymously here.

We also have a new reward for folks who pledge $7 or more at patreon.com/gender.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Gladrags and Open Hand Health— let them know we sent you!

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.

Find Mal across social media @MalBlum. We’re on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

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

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

Find episode transcripts and our FAQ page at genderpodcast.com.

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

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

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.

John Paul is trapped on Twitter @jpbrammer. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

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

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

Find episode transcripts and our FAQ page at genderpodcast.com.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Find episode transcripts and starter packs for new listeners at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Hickory Interlude” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)

Tuck chats with sports journalist Katie Barnes (they/them). Topics include: 

• Will “the science” ever be settled re: trans athletes?
• How coordinated are all these anti-trans sports bills?
• Why most teams should be co-ed (and why most elite sports shouldn’t be)
• What makes a bad interview question? (Asking for a friend lol)
• Plus: Getting banned for your bones, interviewing trans kids, and a reminder that sports are hard! 

This Week in Gender: Joan Summers on Barbie (2023)

Find Katie @katie_barnes3 and KEBarnes.com. Read their work on ESPN.com and preorder Fair Play.

Get your tickets to our August 28 live show! 

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s message was from “Bang!” by Vic Liu. (Promo code: GENDERREVEAL)

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

Find us genderpodcast.com and @gendereveal.

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Luka 75” “Single Still” & “Calgary Sweeps” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Queer Candle Co. (promo code: GENDER10)

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.

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 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!

In this week’s episode, Tuck hikes through the wilderness, and radio producer Sarah Esocoff (she/her) steps in to share the stories of several queer and trans individuals grappling with what it means to be femme (or not femme).

Thank you to Sarah and SiriusXM’s Spoke Studios for allowing us to air their three-part series Femme. Don’t forget to check out Sarah’s new queer podcast, Paperweight. 

Send Tuck your news updates on Twitter, and find photos of their hike on Instagram (probably?). You can also reach us at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter, and can submit advice questions anonymously here.

We greatly appreciate donations via Patreon or PayPal or Cash App. Donate $5+ to receive stickers and other fun stuff.

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

[CN: mentions of assault, transphobia, suicide]

In this special bonus episode, Tuck speaks with Diana James (she/her) and Sophie Corvidae (xe/xir) about the Gender Recognition Act reform currently being debated in the United Kingdom.

Looking for ways to support trans folks in the UK? Diana recommends donating to Mermaids, and Sophie suggests supporting Trans Pride Brighton. Find other UK orgs at Trans Unite.

Visit our website to read episode transcripts, hire us for inclusivity workshops, and apply for the Gender Reveal grant by October 31(!)

Questions? Comments? Feelings? You can reach us at our website; via gendereveal@gmail.com; or on Twitter or Instagram. You can also submit questions anonymously.

We greatly appreciate donations via Patreon or PayPal or Cash App. Donate $5+ to receive stickers and other fun stuff.

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Theme song: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: “The Zeppelin” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

In this week's episode, we speak with Eden Rohatensky (they/them), a programmer, writer, and musician (Also Also Also, Eden the Cat, Orphan Mothers, Rotten Spooky). (CW: mentions of harassment, assault, and suicidality.) Topics include:

• Adding a non-binary voice to the #MeToo movement
• The difficulties of coming out as non-binary in other languages
• How coming out helped Eden recognize their privilege
• Navigating the tech industry as a non-straight-white-dude
• Is gender a spooky ghost?

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here.

Find Eden on Twitter, Medium, and Patreon @edenthecat.

Don’t forget to listen to Feminist Killjoys, PhD, and Flex Your Heart Radio!

Questions/feedback/feelings? Hit us up at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter @gendereveal. And of course, we always appreciate donations at patreon.com/gender or PayPal or Cash App.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Gladrags (coupon code: “GENDER”) and TomboyX (coupon code: “TOMBOYS”)

In this week’s episode, Tuck (literally) finds their way out of the wilderness, and we share the second episode of a brand new nonbinary podcast.

Thank you to Ave Bisesi (they/them) and Mac Maclean (they/them) for letting us share the second episode of Public Trans. In addition to subscribing to the show, you can find Public Trans on Twitter, Facebook, and Patreon.

Wanna know if Tuck actually made it out of the woods? You can look for them on Twitter and on Instagram. You can also reach us gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter, and can submit advice questions anonymously here.

We greatly appreciate donations via Patreon or PayPal or Cash App. Donate $5+ to receive stickers and other fun stuff.

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

Tuck chats with drag performer and artist Yvie Oddly (she/they). Topics include:

• How being on Drag Race changed the way Yvie watches TV
• An impromptu analysis of RuPaul’s memoir 
• Why dysphoria is universal and drag is inherently trans
• What Yvie and Chappell Roan have in common
• Plus: FtMtW transgender, unionizing Drag Race, bendy bones gender and accessibility at the club

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today’s message was from Chris Gallego.

Join our Patreon to access more of this conversation with Yvie, plus our monthly bonus episodes and weekly newsletter.

Find Yvie at oddlyyvie.com and @oddlyyvie.

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Find transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

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

In this bonus episode, Tuck chats with Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett about what's going on over at LittlePuss Press post-SPD collapse. Topics include:

• What’s next for LittlePuss? 
• How can we learn to log off? 
• Wouldn’t it be mortifying to win a Nobel Prize?
• Cat’s thoughts on historical fell type??
• Plus: An upcoming book that "establishes, at a stroke, [the author] as one of the great writers of her generation"(!!!)

Support the LittlePuss Press Kickstarter by May 17, or shop all their existing titles at LittlePuss.net. 

In this week’s episode, Tuck answers more listener questions with filmmaker and activist Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). Topics include:

• Pronoun go-arounds and cis fragility
• Advice for coming out
• Writing about trans folks without becoming the next Jesse Singal
• What does butch mean?

Read more about our This Week in Gender topics at the following links: Maine, courts, Ireland, Kerala, Pakistan, Scarlett Johansson.

Questions/feedback/feelings? Hit us up at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter. You can also submit questions anonymously here.

We greatly appreciate donations via Patreon or PayPal or Cash App. Donate $5+ to receive stickers and other fun stuff.

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

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.)

Find Jackie on Twitter @jackie_ess. Buy Darryl on Bookshop or wherever books are.

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

Find episode transcripts and starter packs for new listeners at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

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

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Friction Model” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) 

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

Grant: genderpodcast.com/grant

Newsletter: patreon.com/gender

Merch: bit.ly/gendermerch

Tuck's workshops/consulting/etc: sylveon.co

For more frequent updates, we're on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal. We're also at genderpodcast.com

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with Mads Ambrose (they/them), founder of body-positive, all-gender waxing salon Babe Wax. Topics include:

• Why waxing can be lifesaving for some trans folks.
• Transphobia at mainstream waxing salons.
• The struggle of being femme and genderqueer (in Oklahoma circa 2010).
• Playing with gender as a feminine drag king.
• What even is a woman?

Donate to WaxFund here.

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here.

Find Tuck on last week’s episode of Feminist Killjoys, PhD and Two Broads Talking Politics.

Questions/feedback/feelings? Hit us up at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter @gendereveal. You can also submit questions anonymously here. And of course, we always appreciate donations at patreon.com/gender or PayPal or Cash App.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Gladrags and Open Hand Health— let them know we sent you!

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with writer and Ph.D. student Ari LaRae Monts (they/them), whose research focuses on queer women of color and non-binary people of color. Topics include:

• Grappling with family trauma by writing a love letter to butch queers.
• Using federal dollars to study queer SM communities of color.
• Rethinking “femme” as an identity beyond an aesthetic.
• Practicing Christianity as a queer and trans person.
• Exploring nonbinary identity at A-Camp.

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here.

Find Alaina’s writing on Autostraddle, and follow them on Twitter (@alaraemonts).

Send us your comments, questions, and feelings at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter. You can also submit questions anonymously here.

We greatly appreciate donations via Patreon or PayPal or Cash App. Donate $5+ to receive stickers and other fun stuff.

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

• 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.

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

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

Our spring grant is now open for applications at bit.ly/tpoc22. Learn more about our past grant winners at genderpodcast.com/grant.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s messages was from Cambridge Solidarity Fund / bit.ly/solidaritystickers.

Find episode transcripts and starter packs for new listeners at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

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

In this extra-nice episode, Tuck answers listener questions with their roommates Taegan Wolfe (they) and Tehya (they). Topics include:

• Navigating a gender transition in a previously “straight” relationship
• Androsexual, gynesexual, sapiosexual… are they problematic?
• What should I do if I’m triggered by my partner’s gender expression?
• How can I feel sexy in a non-normative body?
• Also: how and why did you choose to be gay?

This Week in Gender: Marvel announces its first nonbinary superhero… Snowflake (via Pink News)

We’ve got NEW merch, including “Surf Don’t TERF” sweatshirts & mugs and a shirt that says “at least it’s spring in hell,” only available until April 1. Browse all of our shirts, stickers, mugs and more at bit.ly/gendermerch. 

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Questions? Comments? Feelings? You can reach us at genderpodcast.com or on Twitter or Instagram.

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

Logo: Ira M. Leigh

Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with Kaig Lightner (he/him), the founder of both Portland Community Football Club and Breaking the Gender Binary Consulting. Topics include:

• Coming out as trans to young soccer players—and having the resulting video go viral.
• Fighting sexism and harmful gender roles in kids’ sports.
• Not feeling comfortable in the “middle space” of gender, despite feeling internally genderless.

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here.

Find Tuck on last week’s episode of Vegan Warrior Princesses Attack.

Questions/feedback/feelings? Hit us up at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter. You can also submit questions anonymously here.

We always appreciate donations at patreon.com/gender or PayPal or Cash App. If you donate $7 or more, we'll send you a surprise.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Babe Wax! Donate to WaxFund, please! 

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with Morgen Bromell (they/them), the founder of the queer dating/connection app Thurst. Topics include:

• How dating apps fail queer and trans folks
• Navigating dating under white supremacy
• Dating apps as survival tools
• Building an asexual- and aromantic-inclusive dating app
• Being a nonbinary tech CEO

Read Tuck's Podcast Review article about trans/nonbinary podcasters here. 

We’ve got limited-edition merch that raises money for trans designers & LGBTQ orgs! Browse our shirts, stickers, totes, pillows and more at bit.ly/gendermerch.

Support trans media! Pledge any amount at patreon.com/gender to receive our weekly newsletter. We also appreciate donations via PayPal or Cash App.

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

Questions? Comments? Feelings? You can reach us at genderpodcast.com; via gendereveal@gmail.com; or on Twitter or Instagram.

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

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Tartaruga” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

In this week’s episode, Tuck answers listener questions with filmmaker and activist Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). Topics include:

• Misgendering yourself
• Using they/them pronouns in solidarity
• Should nonbinary people apply for “women’s” scholarships?
• Is it possible to be nonbinary and a trans woman?
• What the hell does femme mean?!

“Why the Popular Phrase “Women and Femmes” Makes No Sense”
“Women and Femmes Unite” (counterpoint)

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here. Read about FOSTA/SESTA here and here, visit survivorsagainstsesta.org, and donate money here.

Questions/feedback/feelings? Hit us up at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter. You can also submit questions anonymously here.

We always appreciate donations at patreon.com/gender or PayPal or Cash App. If you donate $5 or more by April 30, we'll send you stickers and an extra surprise.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: Night Owl by Broke For Free
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you SO much!

In this week’s episode, Tuck answers listener questions with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). Topics include:

• Am I secretly cis?
• Who is queer?
• Can nonbinary people use the trans flag?
• How can I support my closeted partner?
• Can I say “transsexual”?

Content warnings

• Murder, hate crimes (19:20–21:30)
• Eating disorders, weight loss, dysphoria (31:10–34:40)

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

Find Julien’s Trans Eye for the Cis Ally talk at @_jbfitz.

Learn more about our This Week in Gender topic here.

We’ve got limited-edition merch that raises money for trans designers & LGBTQ orgs! Browse our shirts, stickers, totes and more at bit.ly/gendermerch.

Support trans media! Pledge any amount at patreon.com/gender to receive our weekly newsletter. We also appreciate donations via PayPal or Cash App.

Questions? Comments? Feelings? You can reach at genderpodcast.com; via gendereveal@gmail.com; or on Twitter or Instagram.

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

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Pinky” 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 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. 

Find Gretchen on Patreon and Twitter @scumbelievable. Manhunt is out now in paperback.

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

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

Find episode transcripts and starter packs for new listeners at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s message was from Evolution’s Rainbow (tickets available here).

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

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 explains this year’s Trans Day of Snack celebrations — which includes the opportunity to organize a Gender Reveal-funded gathering! — before chatting with Seattle Trans Joy’s Jerika Che (they/them). Topics include:

• How do I organize a Trans Day of Snack event in my area?
• How do I choose a location?
• How can I spread the word?
• What safety measures might be helpful?
• Plus: Trans vegan donuts, potlucks, and emotional support cis?

For more organizing tips and stories, listen to last year’s episode with Jerika. Learn more about Trans Day of Snack via these PopSugar and Vice articles. (We also chatted with TDOS co-founder Lilith on Gender Conceal.)

Organizing your own Trans Day of Snack event? Apply for a small grant at bit.ly/tdos2025. (Folks can send donations to @Tuck-Woodstock or PayPal.me/TWoodstock)

CHICAGO! Gender Ordeal is coming to you! Tickets on sale now, please come hang out! 

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: “Beignet” and “Palms Down” by Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck chats with Palestinian activist Yaffa (they/she) about their experiences with last year's student encampments, their belief in collectivism, and their journey to mononymity. 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear what Yaffa learned about gender from Palestinian elders, among other topics. 

Find Yaffa @yaffasutopia across platforms, and at themasgd.org and merajpublishing.com.

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

In this week's episode, we speak with Leila and Haile and Maya Vivas, co-directors of Ori Gallery. Ori is a brand new gallery that seeks to amplify the voices of trans and queer artists of color in Portland, Oregon. (CW: assault at 9:00 and 33:00) Topics include:

• Queerness and Afro-Queerness as a gender, sexual, and political identity
• Racism and transphobia in the medical industrial complex
• Navigating queer spaces as a Black, trans, disabled human
• Coming into a non-binary identity through an African identity
• Creating a truly accessible art gallery

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here and here.

Find Ori Gallery at oriartgallery.com and on Instagram. Find Leila Haile at leilahaile.com, and Maya Vivas at mayavivas.com.

Questions/feedback/feelings? Hit us up at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter @gendereveal. And of course, we always appreciate donations at patreon.com/gender or PayPal or Cash App.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Gladrags (coupon code: “GENDER”) and TomboyX (coupon code: “TOMBOYS”)

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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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: “Syriah” & “The Odd About It” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: ShopEnby.com (code: GenderReveal) and DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

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!

In this bonus mini-ep, Tuck shares two plot twists regarding the inaugural Gender Reveal grant and gets u pumped for season three.

HELP US GIVE MONEY 2 TRANS FOLX:

• patreon.com/gender

FIND US:

• Twitter @gendereveal
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See you on Monday!

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with Indigenous Diné transdisciplinary artist Demian DinéYazhi´(they/them). Demian is the founder and director of the artist/activist initiative R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment. Topics include:

• “The only option for being queer was death. And the only option for being a Native person was death, as well.”
• Decolonializing concepts of sex, love, gender identity, and sexual orientation for future generations.
• Defining “radical indigenous queer feminism.”
• Creating resources and platforms for queer, trans, and Two-Spirit Indigenous artists.
• Growing up queer during the AIDS crisis.

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here and here. (And please let us know your thoughts!)

Find Damien’s work on Tumblr and Etsy. Damien is also on Instagram at @heterogeneoushomosexual and @riseindigenous.

Send us your comments, questions, and feelings at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter. You can also submit questions anonymously here.

We greatly appreciate donations via Patreon or PayPal or Cash App. Donate $5+ to receive stickers in the mail!

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.

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.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh

Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with somatic therapist and politicized healer Brooke Stepp (they/them). Topics include:

• Tips for finding a therapist as a trans person
• Eating disorders and harm reduction (h/t Gloria Lucas)
• Why body acceptance doesn’t work for trans people
• Nonbinary high femme identity (vs womanhood)
• Gender communism!

Content warnings

• Suicidality (20:30–21:30)
• Eating disorders (29:30–38:30)

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic: “Many Genes Influence Same-Sex Sexuality, Not a Single ‘Gay Gene’” in the New York Times.

We’ve got limited-edition merch that raises money for trans designers & LGBTQ orgs, including a NEW design from Lena Dirscherl. Browse our shirts, stickers, totes and more at bit.ly/gendermerch.

Support trans media! Pledge any amount at patreon.com/gender to receive our weekly newsletter. We also appreciate donations via PayPal or Cash App.

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

Questions? Comments? Feelings? You can reach us at genderpodcast.com; via gendereveal@gmail.com; or on Twitter or Instagram.

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

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show.

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

Tuck & Ozzy catch up with organizer and author Dean Spade (he/him). Topics include: 

• Tools for moving through jealousy, handling in-group conflict, and supporting someone during a breakup
• Why symbolic arrests aren’t currently an effective political strategy 
• Why mutual aid is most important when we feel scared, avoidant or isolated
• Plus: “Better” titles for Dean’s book, promiscuous friendship, and what you should do about that gender marker on your ID… 

This Week in Gender: we peek into the 2024 Gender Census results 

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today’s messages were from Fiona Palmer and The Dugout: a Black anarchist podcast.

Tickets for our Gender Ordeal live shows in DC, San Francisco, and Seattle are on sale now (and going fast)!

Find Dean at deanspade.net and linktr.ee/deanspade. Preorder Love in a Fucked-Up World via Bluestockings for 15% off (with code F*CKED<3), or listen to an hour of the audiobook for free. Dean’s book tour dates are listed here.

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Find transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Kovir Straight” & “Gin Boheme” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20) & Queer Candle Co (promo code: GENDER10)

Tuck speaks with writer and creature enthusiast Sabrina Imbler (they/them). Topics include: 

• A Who’s Who of the ocean’s notable transsexuals 
• Writing about trans youth for the New York Times (lol, lmao)
• Seeking gender role models from creatures, plants, and fungi
• Why is a sad octopus more heartbreaking than a sad human?
• Plus: Neopets, the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe, and a goldfish driving a tank(?!)

This Week in Gender: Carl Charles shares a trans Supreme Court update.

Find Sabrina on Twitter @aznfusion and on tour. Their work is available on Defector and at simbler.github.io. How Far the Light Reaches is out on Dec 6, and Dyke (Geology) is available now from Black Lawrence Press.

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

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

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

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s messages were from Some Tending and Urge Surfer.

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Taoudella” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Urbody (promo code: TUCK15)

Tuck chats with visual artist and author Rani Som (she/her) about writing an exquisitely eggy memoir, coming out in her 40s, and exploring the inevitable failure of trans utopia.

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of growing up in Manhattan, working in architecture, drawing sex scenes (or not), Kate Bush, misanthropy, and the freaky pickle art on Tuck’s wall.

Find Rani at bishakh.com and @biche_bash.  Apsara Engine and Spellbound are both available on Bookshop.org.

Get your Philly live show tickets and come hang out with Tuck, Mckenzee, Mattie, Calvin, Sadie Dupuis and moooore on December 3! Or else! 

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

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with Kevin Cook (he/him), better known as the glamorous Poison Waters (she/her). One of Portland’s most beloved event hosts, Poison is a co-host at the legendary Darcelle XV Showplace. Topics include:

• Distinguishing between trans women and (male) drag queens.
• Joining the drag scene as a gay black man in the late 1980s.
• Living as one person with two identities, two presentations, and two sets of pronouns.
• Watching LGBTQ visibility and acceptance evolve over the last three decades.

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here.

Questions/feedback/feelings? Hit us up at gendereveal@gmail.com or on Twitter. You can also submit questions anonymously here.

We are grateful for donations at patreon.com/gender or PayPal or Cash App. If you donate $7 or more, we'll send you a surprise.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Babe Wax! Donate to WaxFund, please! 

Tuck shares last year’s conversation with Nigerian fashion designer and activist Fola Francis (she/her/they). Topics include:

• Dodging a blacklist to walk in Lagos Fashion Week
• Advice for other people living under anti-LGBTQ laws 
• “Queerness has always been very African” 
• Hosting several of Lagos’s first balls
• Plus: Nigerian healthcare, Dolls Activities, and And Just Like That… 

This Week in Gender: Remembering Fola. 

A full episode transcript is available at genderpodcast.com/listen.

You can find archives of Fola’s life at @folafrancis and @thefolafrancis. 

We've got Trans Day of Snack merch for a limited time over at bit.ly/gendermerch.

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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: “Taoudella” by Blue Dot Sessions

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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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 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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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. 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 this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with author and illustrator Maia Kobabe  (e/em/eir), creator of the memoir Gender Queer. (Buy eir book!)Topics include:

• Spivak pronouns
• Low inventory at the orgasm store
• “Deserving” trans-related surgeries
• Coming out to your first Girl Scout troop
• Educating TERF-adjacent relatives
• Also: Tuck does unlicensed therapy

Support trans media! Pledge any amount at patreon.com/gender to receive our weekly newsletter. We also appreciate donations via PayPal or Cash App. Support Maia at patreon.com/maiakobabe.

Join the Gender Detectives Slack here!

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show.

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

Questions? Comments? Feelings? You can reach us at genderpodcast.com; via gendereveal@gmail.com; or on Twitter or Instagram.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Poplar Grove” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

In the Season Five premiere, Tuck speaks with Cyrus Dunham (he/him), author of the memoir A Year Without a Name. Topics include:

• Top surgery’s role in colonialism
• The guilty eroticism of he/him pronouns
• Writing for trans people that don’t have all the answers yet
• Watching your loved one become a commodity
• Is cisness a delusion?
• Also: Big Libra Energy and the destruction of the state

This Week In Gender: Tuck discusses The Word of the Year Is “They” on NPR Morning Edition.

Buy Cyrus’s book, A Year Without a Name, via Powell’s or your local bookstore.

Support Tuck's wild new 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. (Also, heck, order the Portland visitors guide for free if you want, why not???)

We’ve got BRAND NEW merch that raises money for trans designers & LGBTQ orgs! Browse our shirts, stickers, totes and more at bit.ly/gendermerch.

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

Questions? Comments? Feelings? You can reach us at genderpodcast.com or on Twitter or Instagram.

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.

Production help: Isaura Aceves
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: “Boston Landing” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!­

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. 

We’re on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

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

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s message was from NerdyKeppie (promo code: REVEALED)

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

Find episode transcripts and our FAQ page at genderpodcast.com.

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

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Milkwood” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) 

In this week’s second mini-episode, Tuck speaks with Diego Girgado (they/them) of the Strength United Family Justice Center. Topics include:

• Advocating for trans survivors of violence and assault
• Decolonizing and reclaiming Cubanx identity
• Working in an LGBTQ-affirming space

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: “The Yards” and “OneEightFour” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Tuck chats with actress Nicole Maines (she/her). Topics include: 

• The long, slow process of transitioning in elementary school 
• Picketing with the WGA even before the SAG-AFTRA strike 
• Writing a trans superhero’s origin story 
• Getting name inspiration from Nickelodeon & Disney Channel 
• Plus: vampire hot takes and Danny Phantom Tumblr discourse?!

This Week in Gender: A moment from the O’Shae Sibley vigil

Get your tickets to our August 28 live show! 

2 Trans 2 Furious PDFs and physical copies available via BigCartel.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Damaroon” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Queer Candle Co. (promo code: GENDER10)

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.

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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.

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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!

Happy Fast X Day! We're celebrating chosen familia by sharing Mckenzee's essay "Letty Did Not Trans Me But Maybe She Did" from our upcoming anthology 2 TRANS 2 FURIOUS, now available for preorder! 

(Note: Tuck's audio quality got messed up but we're just rolling with it, OK?)

Preorder 2 TRANS 2 FURIOUS at 2trans2furious.bigcartel.com.

Get your 10% off discount code at patreon.com/gender.

Find Mattie Lubchansky on tour, and especially in Queens with Tuck!

Listen to Tuck on You're Wrong About.

Bluesky?

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

Tuck speaks with comedian, performer, and event producer Howie Echo-Hawk (they/them). Topics include: 

• What do pronoun go-arounds and land acknowledgements have in common?
• Is it even possible to decolonize gender?
• Why your comedy can’t come solely from suffering
• Using nature to explore identity beyond language
• Plus: Dance parties, autism superpowers, and punishment comedy 

This Week in Gender: The past and future of the US Trans Survey, which is available until November 21 at ustranssurvey.org. (You can read the full 2015 survey results here. The 2019 NCTE staff’s open letter is here, and our segment about the Euphoria apps is in Episode 88 with Noah Adams.)

Read Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor here.

Find Howie on Instagram @howieechohawk, @indigenizeproductions, @_theresmore_ and @everynativeepisode. Find Every Native Episode here, and listen to Howie on the Deep End Friends podcast.

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Selena Leica” and “Gallant Fantasie” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Queer Candle Co. (promo code: GENDER10)

Tuck chats with journalist Rax Will (he/they) about queer food, pronoun-themed cocktails, and “AFAB” trans clothing brands (derogatory). Plus, news about next season!

Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of:

• Rax’s extensive research about trans people and dog food(?!)
• Why the hottest new accessory is the NYC diaper
• Receiving the perfect “sorry I misgendered u” gift 
• Why one of the best queer bars won’t hang a pride flag
• And more that we cannot even mention here!!! 

Find Rax @bigfoodie69. Articles mentioned in this episodes include:

• “The Best Shorts for Trans Men and GNC Badboyz” (lol)
• “The Next Generation of ‘Lesbian Bars’ Is Here. What Should We Call Them?”
• “When Sir and Ma’am Miss the Mark: Restaurants Rethink Gender’s Role in Food Service” (gift link)

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Dialtone 11” by Blue Dot Sessions

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

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

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

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

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

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “These Times” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)

It's a Christmas miracle — we've got tickets on sale to our February 1st live show, feauting four of your favorite Gender Reveal alumni. 

Get your tickets here while you can!

Tuck speaks with Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas way back on Trans Day of Snack 2023. It's a Gender Reveal x Gender Spiral crossover event! 

Find Gender Spiral at genderspiralpod.com as well as Instagram, TikTok, and Patreon. 

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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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) & Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera

Tuck catches up with multidisciplinary artist Salimatu Amabebe (he/they). Topics include: 

• Barracuda, an it/its drag monster and perverse people-pleaser
• Should you retcon your dead dad into someone more convenient?
• Demanding better (and more creative) gender-affirming surgeries
• The pros and cons of making earnest, vulnerable art 
• Plus: Envisioning yourself as a house for many different / differently-gendered beings (“and they’re all employed!”)

This Week in Gender: We remix a 4-year-old TSA segment. 

Find Salimatu on Instagram @salimatuamabebe and @black.feast.

We’ve got three Palestinian solidarity designs (plus trains flag restocks) in the merch shop this month.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “CoulisCoulis” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Aphrodisia Boutique (code: GENDERREVEAL) and DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

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.

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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. 

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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!

Tuck chats with Naveen Kundanmal (they/them) about doing Shania Twain karaoke at the Texas State Capitol and tracking your HRT timeline via pterodactyl screeches. (Plus, news about next season!)

Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of:

• Trying to plan a (gender-neutral) wedding without being cringe 
• Getting medicated out of your need to TikTok
• Bonding with your mom over changing your first name as an adult
• What does Patti Harrison have to do with our cursed friendship origin story?? 

Find Naveen on Instagram @hottubtimenaveen or Twitter @naveenwashable, and see what’s happening in Texas @equalitytexas across social media. 

Find our merch shop at bit.ly/gendermerch. 

See Tuck with Normal Gossip at Town Hall on June 16.

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with writer, activist, teacher, performer, fat babe and Ph.D. student Caleb Luna (they/them). (cw: mentions of rape, slavery, racism) Topics include:

• How fatness impacts gender performance
• Experiencing white supremacy in QTPOC spaces
• “Fat liberation requires the undoing of western civilization”
• The racialization of gender throughout U.S. history
• Is romantic love a colonial construct?

References:

• “The Gender Nonconformity of My Fatness” by Caleb Luna
• “The X in Latinx is a Wound, Not a Trend” by Alan Pelaez Lopez
• “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native” by Patrick Wolfe
• “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe” by Hortense J. Spillers
• Learn more about our This Week in Gender topic here and here.

Support Caleb’s work at patreon.com/calebluna, and find them on Twitter (@tummyfuq) and Instagram (@chairbreaker).

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Questions? Comments? Feelings? You can reach us at genderpodcast.com; via gendereveal@gmail.com; or on Twitter or Instagram. You can also submit questions anonymously here.

We greatly appreciate donations via Patreon or PayPal or Cash App. Donate $5+ to receive stickers and other fun stuff. 

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “More Weather” 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 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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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Gentle Son” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) & Bistitchual

Ozzy and Tuck chat with philosopher Talia Mae Bettcher (she/her). Topics include:

• Creating a theory of trans oppression beyond the “wrong body” and “beyond the binary” accounts 
• How clothing can be part of an abusive system of forced disclosure 
• “Let’s meditate on genitalia if we can for a moment”
• Why are there so many terfs in philosophy?? 
• Plus: Phoria, apparitionals, moral sex, and other fun new vocab 

This Week in Gender: Updates on Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack community events! Apply for funding at bit.ly/tdos2025 or donate at @Tuck-Woodstock & PayPal.me/TWoodstock.

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today’s messages were from Queer Third Space and Voces Language Club.

Find Talia’s work here and here. Beyond Personhood is available from University of Minnesota Press.

Gender Ordeal is coming to Chicago and Minneapolis! Grab your tickets quickly at genderpodcast.com/live.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: “Kickstep” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

A few quick announcements on what's coming up next. 

Thanks to Blue Dot Sessions as always for the music bed. 

Tuck speaks with organizer and educator Dean Spade (he/him). Topics include: 

• Why civil rights laws won’t save us
• Common mutual aid struggles: money, security culture, etc.
• Why does burnout convince us that we can’t take a break?
• Reflections 20 years after founding the Sylvia Rivera Law Project
• Plus: dinosaur gender, x markers, and talking people out of law school

This Week in Gender: The Texas government tried to make a database of residents who changed their gender markers. 

Find Dean’s work at BigDoorBrigade.com, PinkwashingExposed.net and linktr.ee/deanspade. Visit DeanSpade.net for more info on Mutual Aid, videos from past workshops, and many other resources.

Find Tuck on the Rainbow Parenting podcast!

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “The Dustbin” and “Lumber Down” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Urbody (promo code: TUCK15)

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.

Find Ezra’s music, merch, tour dates and more at ezrafurman.com.

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) and Rev Nat’s (promo code: SNACKS)

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