A World to Win: The Transgender Issue w/ Shon Faye
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🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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On this episode of A World to Win, Grace speaks to Shon Faye, writer, artist, comedian, and author of the forthcoming book The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice. They discuss the prevalence of transphobia in the UK, why the transgender issue is also a class issue, and how socialists can and should support the fight for trans rights.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a world to win a podcast from Tribune magazine. I'm Grace Blakely bringing |
| 0:17.7 | you your weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action from around the world. |
| 0:22.4 | This week I speak to Sean Feigh, writer, artist, comedian and author of the forthcoming |
| 0:26.8 | book The Transgender Issue, an argument for justice. We discuss the prevalence of transphobia |
| 0:32.0 | in the UK, why the transgender issue is also a class issue, and how socialists can and should |
| 0:38.2 | support the fight for trans rights. Thanks so much to all our amazing patrons who make this show |
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| 1:06.8 | Another big thank you to Reverend and the makers who've let us use their track Heavyweight |
| 1:10.0 | Champion of the world as our intro and outro music. And now here is Sean Feigh on what transphobia is |
| 1:16.0 | and how prevalent it is in the UK. |
| 1:23.7 | Hello Sean Feigh and thank you so much for joining me on this episode of a world to win. |
| 1:27.7 | How are you today? I'm good, thank you, thank you for having me. I am doing all right today. |
| 1:34.0 | I am, yeah, in the midst of pre-book publicity, it's all a bit of a whirlwind but I am having |
| 1:39.5 | some time with family, so I'm recording from my family house. Lovely. So I guess I want to start |
| 1:45.4 | just by talking a little bit about transphobia in the UK. I've seen a lot of stats recently |
| 1:52.0 | suggesting that actually most people are pretty accepting of trans people but obviously we know |
| 1:57.3 | that trans people experience a horrendous amount of abuse on a daily basis. Just how transphobic |
| 2:01.8 | is the average person in the UK do you think and is the direction of travel broadly positive or negative? |
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