(2014/02/20) If you're talking about genitals then you've missed the point (Trans* Rights)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 February 2014
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Edition #801
If you're talking about genitals then you've missed the point
Today I take my second crack at discussing trans* rights. Last time I tried it didn't go over too well so today we find out if I've learned from my mistakes and if others will learn a thing or two about trans* issues.
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: When Is That Appropriate Conversation, Katie - Radio Dispatch - Air Date 1-9-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Lesson Learned (feat. John Mayer) - Alicia Keys
Ch. 4: Act 2: Katie Couric has her bad questions explained to her - Laverne Cox - Air Date: 1-7-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Discrimination - Ancel
Ch. 6: Act 3: Cultural Consequences Of Trans Population - Trans Advocate - Air Date 2-20-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: I can't - Ben Sollee
Ch. 8: Act 4: Twisted And Unethical Journalism And Resultant Suicide - @Radio_Dispatch - Air Date 1-21-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Look again - Jim Ford
Ch. 10: Act 5: The case of CeCe McDonald - Melissa Harris-Perry - Air Date: 1-19-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: ***Flawless (feat. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) - Beyoncé
Ch. 12: Act 6: Social Anxiety of Trans Population vs. Military PTSD - Trans Advocate - Air Date 2-20-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Transgender Dysphoria Blues - Against Me!
Ch. 14: Act 7: Piers Morgan's Uninformed Interview With Janet Mock - @Radio_Dispatch - Air Date 2-6-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Strong animals - Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin
Ch. 16: Act 8: After 20 Years Prisoner Michelle Kosilek Granted Right To Sex Change - @WEEKinBLACKNESS - Air Date: 1-21-14
Ch. 17: Song 8: Slipping away - Donnie Darko
Ch. 18: Act 9: The Jim Collins Foundation - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 19: Song 9: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 20: Act 10: Janet Mock on 'Passing' & Redefining Realness - Janet Mock - Air Date: 1-30-14
Voicemails:
Ch. 21: Where the women-problems in the south come from - Wes from Alabama
Ch. 22: Thoughts on the arguments of sovereignty against corporate takeover - Dave from Olympia, WA
Ch. 23: Suggesting "The Authoritarians" book - John In Stamford, CT
Leave a message at 202-999-3991
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 24: Final comments on making progress addressing trans* rights
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
ACTIVISM:
Jim Collins Foundation
Additional Activism
Free CeCe, a documentary on CeCe McDonald
Sources/further reading:
Savage Lovecast, episode 369 (11/19/13); Dan Savage interviews M. Dru Levasseur, co-founder and vice president of the Jim Collins Foundation
"Professional Organization Statements Supporting Transgender People In Health Care” via Lambda Legal
"Piers Morgan, It Shouldn’t Be So Hard For You To Interview Janet Mock” by Avital Norman Nathman
"Janet Mock: Piers Morgan 'Sensationalized’ Me” by John Becker
"Because of You: My Letter to CeCe McDonald on Her Release
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by:
Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:12.7 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast we'll come today from Radio Dispatch, |
| 0:16.8 | Laverne Cox, The Trans Advocate, Melissa Harris Perry, This Week in Blackness, and Janet Moch. |
| 0:21.8 | And a quick reminder that the last trans rights episode I did was met with some pretty poor |
| 0:25.6 | reviews, so let's see if this one isn't at least a step in the right direction. |
| 0:29.9 | Katie Courage has her own television show that I believe is called Katie. |
| 0:33.3 | It's like a morning show, I think. She had Laverne Cox, who was the actress from |
| 0:38.8 | Orange's in New Black, The Trans Woman, and Carmen Carrera, who is also a trans woman, |
| 0:43.2 | who is a model. And I actually know of Carmen Carrera from RuPaul's Drag Race, but that was before |
| 0:47.7 | she came out as trans. So Katie had these two women on the show, and I've only seen a part of it. |
| 0:52.9 | I didn't see the offending part, but it was being written about, and I saw it being shared a lot |
| 0:58.0 | on Twitter. So Katie Courage, who's interviewing these two women, who are really accomplished people, |
| 1:05.5 | like all sorts of really interesting things to talk about. And apparently Katie Courage found |
| 1:10.1 | it prudent to ask Carmen about her genitals. And apparently the quote is she asked if Carmen's |
| 1:17.7 | quote, private parts are quote, different now. To be fair, she asks that to all of her genitals. |
| 1:27.0 | I like to open every interview with government officials. Are your private parts different? |
| 1:32.9 | Yeah, every actress and model that I speak with, I ask them about their private parts. |
| 1:38.1 | I don't ask them about their upcoming projects, about how they got to where they are now. |
| 1:43.8 | I just focus on private parts. I hope we were joking before it. It'd be like saying, |
| 1:48.4 | when you go pee pee, do you stand or sit? Yeah, why are you asking this? Are you talking to a small |
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