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Homo Sapiens

277: The T is for Try Me, B*tch! With Charlie Craggs | Part 2

Homo Sapiens

Christopher Sweeney

Arts, Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

*Trigger warning*: This episode contains discussions around suicide and rape.*


This week, we are joined by the incredible Charlie Craggs. Charlie is an author, actress and the brains behind campaigns such as Nail Transphobia and Charlie's Self Defence Angels. More recently, she was in the press after being denied hormones by her new GP after moving out of London after a transphobic attack.


We sat down to discuss all of this and more. Charlie is a true trailblazer for the trans community, so make sure you don't miss this one!


If you have been affected by any of the themes in this episode, both Samaritans and SARSAS have resources on their websites.


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0:00.0

Hello welcome back to part two with Charlie Craig's. Do enjoy.

0:10.9

You always say the tea in LGBT is for trying a bitch, right? Yes. Yes.

0:15.3

Tell me a bit more about how that came about. I couldn't even tell you what it came

0:18.9

back. It came off the back of transphobia. I remember I said it like years ago

0:23.2

literally like pre-pandemic I think someone like came for me and I just said it and

0:27.4

I was like oh that's really good all the people commenting were like oh my

0:30.0

God I made merch and then I started doing a series on Instagram where like I remember like this crazy

0:34.9

Magga lady in America like fucking I can't remember her name but she came for me so hard she like

0:40.0

shared a video of me on her page and she got a lot more follows than me and the comments were

0:43.5

insane. So I like went through and just looked everyone commenting and then like drag them back.

0:48.9

And then I posted it on my page and then I said the tear and LGBT is four and then every week or every month

0:55.4

whenever I do it I would like change what the T is for so I'd be like the first one was like

0:59.0

maybe that was tri-me- bitch but then I'd be like I don't know the teen LGBT is for

1:03.8

Did you print them all on different bits of merch? No that was like they would be video series I remember like people saying like she's trying to steal my gender

1:12.1

Dada da da da da da da da.

1:13.2

And I like put a picture of, her profile picture,

1:15.4

and I just my comment was,

1:16.8

I might be trying to steal your gender,

1:18.0

but who stole your lips?

1:19.0

Because there was this lady with like the thinnest lips.

1:21.5

I don't even have big lips, I can't't talk but I have some semblance of a lip but the point is like deeper than it just been about me just like getting my own back because I'm just someone who like you can see with Neel Transphobia or the-defense classes, I'm the sort of person I need to be able to process things I go through.

1:35.7

I need to be able to make something from it, something good, something funny, or some money,

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