Gender Reveal

Latest Episodes:

Episode 110: Gender 801 + Checking in with Mckenzee Griffler Dec 27, 2021

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

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

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

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) and Rev Nat's (promo code: SNACKS)

Episode 109: Ezra Furman Dec 20, 2021

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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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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. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) and Rev Nat's (promo code: SNACKS)

Episode 108: Da'Shaun Harrison Dec 13, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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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. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: "Littl John " by Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) and Rev Nat's (promo code: SNACKS)

Episode 107: Calvin Kasulke Dec 06, 2021

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

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

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

Find Calvin at calvinkasulke.com, and pick up a copy of Several People Are Typing wherever books are sold. Here are links to the stories we mentioned about choosing your name and buying dick pills and packing.

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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 Cake Society Co.

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

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas GoodmanLogo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderSponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)

Episode 106: Yeonsoo Julian Kim Nov 29, 2021

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Tuck speaks with game designer and cultural consultant Yeonsoo Julian Kim (they/she). Topics include:

Creating games where every playable character is nonbinary (or, in other cases, Korean)
The joys of BDSM tea party games and horror erotic fiction
Why "romanticizing colonialism" is a surprisingly common game plot
Playing to win vs. playing to process your feelings and maybe have a nice cry
Plus: divorcing fear from gender; and the DnD to HRT pipeline

This Week in Gender: Iowa Medicaid must start covering trans surgeries; R*wling once again claims to be victimized by trans people; Stu Rasmussen was the country's first openly trans mayor; Trans Day of Remembrance happened; Amy Schneider is crushing it on Jeopardy.

Find Yeonsoo @yjuliankim and at yeonsoojuliankim.com. (Want more? Their interactive novel The Fog Knows Your Name is available here, and the Strange Lusts/Strange Loves anthology is being released in installments here [NSFW].)

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

Episode 105: Chase Strangio Nov 22, 2021

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Tuck speaks with lawyer and trans advocate Chase Strangio (he/they). Topics include:

Why everything is going to keep getting worse (sorry!)
How "biological" sex only exists in the law to exclude trans people
Trans joy as a political counterpoint to right-wing legislation
Cis women's crucial role in combatting transphobia
Plus: Throwing yourself on the ground screaming at the gender binary

This Week in Gender: The IOC releases new guidelines for trans & intersex athlete eligibility; and California will require gender-neutral toy sections.

Find Chase @chasestrangio on Twitter/IG and at aclu.org.

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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: "Gentle Son" by Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) & Bistitchual

Episode 104: Jackie Ess Nov 15, 2021

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Tuck speaks with Jackie Ess (she/her), author of Darryl. Topics include:

The future of trans literature (whatever that means)
Writing from the outside and avoiding tokenization
How to avoid being the worst kind of reader
Hints to the subjects of Jackie's next two books
Plus: Jonathan Franzen, Jack Harlow, Casey Plett, Torrey Peters, Hugo Grotius, and the Situation?

This Week in Gender: Para sports and the Paralympics. (You can read WBC's trans inclusion policy here.)

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

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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)

Episode 103: Frankie de la Cretaz Nov 08, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: "Talltell" by Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)

Episode 102: Live in NYC! Nov 01, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)

Episode 101: Gender 101, revisited. Oct 25, 2021

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

Topics include:

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

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

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)

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