147 - Can We Win the Gender Culture War in 2024?
Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Happy 3-year anniversary to Gender: A Wider Lens! This episode marks the celebration of Sasha & Stella’s third year together sharing insightful conversations contemplating gender from a depth perspective.
From engaging listener comments, to memorable guests, to unforgettable aha moments, this episode is packed full. Sasha and Stella share their big takeaways from 2023 and reflect on the incredible journey since their first episode was released in 2020. They highlight some of the fan-favorite episodes from all three seasons, showcasing the evolution of the podcast, and they share about anticipated guests and topics planned for 2024.
In the spirit of festive celebration, Sasha and Stella open up about their own personal holiday traditions with a very special sign off offering listeners warm wishes for the holiday season and happy blessings in the new year.
Sasha and Stella will return from the holiday break with new episodes in February 2024.
Links:
The Cass Review | Interim Report - Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People
https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-report/
Use of Puberty Blockers Doubled Since NHS Clampdown
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/26/use-of-puberty-blockers-doubled-since-nhs-clampdown/
(WPATH Files)
Bigger Picture Conference Denver: How WPATH Ends with Michael Shellenberger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN0orsEwyAo
Wishing you all a merry and happy holiday season!!
Oriental Khalta Rice (the dish Sasha references)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_hTmwJhGUA
White Elephant Rules
https://www.whiteelephantrules.com/
'Fairytale of New York' played at Shane MacGowan's funeral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s8lvnSmISc
The Chieftains - Brian Boru's March (the song Stella plays on the flute)
https://youtu.be/owF60WWWrks?si=1sYzLGyzyz_yxqty
Order Our Book – When Kids Say They’re Trans: A Guide for Thoughtful Parents
https://whenkidssaytheyretrans.com/
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https://www.patreon.com/WiderLensPod
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2023 Top-5 Episodes:
Episode 109 — What If We Are All Wrong: A Mother’s Regret with Rose
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stella O'Malley, a psychotherapist in Ireland. |
| 0:05.0 | And I'm Sasha Ayyad, an adolescent therapist in the United States. |
| 0:09.0 | Through in-depth interviews, personal stories, and psychological exploration, we probe the gender landscape within contemporary culture. |
| 0:18.0 | And we consider the implications of prioritizing personal identity over other aspects of the self. |
| 0:25.0 | This is the thinking person's take on gender. |
| 0:28.0 | Join us as we look at gender from a wider lens. Hello? Hello, you still look very sexy, Sasha. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm still, |
| 0:37.0 | still rocking that hair. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm for a lot or something through it, isn't it? There is. You can see it in the sun a little bit today. |
| 0:45.8 | Very cool. Very cool. Thank you. I'm rocking the Christmas festive kind of green look. |
| 0:51.5 | I see that. And I remember when I learned telling a little secret here that you dye your hair red. Oh yeah and I was so |
| 1:00.0 | heartbroken because I thought as an Irish woman that was clearly just your natural |
| 1:04.1 | color. Yeah, a lot of people actually say are look disappointed. My natural hair |
| 1:10.4 | color is my eyebrows, so it quite dark. And sporadically, since I first died |
| 1:16.4 | when I was 16 and sporadically every few years I go back and I go to because I want to go back. |
| 1:21.6 | I want to be dark and every single time I do people take me |
| 1:25.1 | aside really nicely and say you're nicer red and they do in a lot like just |
| 1:30.7 | just to tell you you know go back back with you look great with your hair, whatever it is. |
| 1:35.3 | And I see your point setas in the background and that's appropriate because this |
| 1:39.5 | episode's going to be airing just a few days before Christmas and this is our third year anniversary. |
| 1:47.0 | I know, three years. We've gone through the terrible twos and Now we're in year three. It's extraordinary. Me and |
| 1:57.1 | you were just as we were preparing we were just looking back in our chat like you |
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