Bonus: Advice with Mattie & Calvin
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Happy Trans Eve of Snack! Tuck chats with Mattie Lubchansky & Calvin Kasulke about how to know whether you're on a date, deal with ambivalence towards certain HRT effects, and cope with the fact that you didn't transition earlier. (Also: trebuchets, glory holes, and nonbinary Donald Duck.)
Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear us discuss whether you should tell your husband about your affair(!!), whether you should flee the country(!), and how to explain FFS to your cis wife. We also share our favorite memories from the Gender Ordeal tour, including the time we met a piss ghost(!!!).
Find Mattie on No Gods No Mayors and Temporal Culture War. Find Calvin around town idk.
Submit advice questions or AMA prompts via our new form for a future episode like this one!
Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Gender Appeal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuck Woodstock. |
| 0:30.9 | Hey everyone. Hope you've all been hanging in there. Happy Trans Day of having a nice snack Eve day. |
| 0:40.4 | At this point, I'm sure that you're familiar with Gender Conceal, the bonus podcast that we make to thank everyone who makes it possible for us to make these podcasts. |
| 0:47.7 | This month on Gender Conceal, we have an absolute banger of an episode. |
| 0:51.3 | Maddie Lubchanski and Calvin Kosulki, who you know from gender reveal, |
| 0:54.7 | gender reveal, gender reveal, have returned to gender conceal to tackle 12 amazing listener |
| 0:59.7 | questions and then talk about their experience with the piss ghost. This episode is full of |
| 1:05.7 | incredible moments, honestly. One listener asked whether she should tell her husband about her |
| 1:10.1 | affair. |
| 1:15.3 | Another person asked about fleeing the United States, and friend of the show Alma Avaya wrote in to ask about wearing a vest, so we really got the range of human experience in this one. |
| 1:20.9 | Also, Maddie got out of sword at some point. |
| 1:24.7 | And then after all that, we talked about our favorite memories from the gender ordeal tour, including the most useful heckle we received and the aforementioned PISChost. |
| 1:33.1 | It's a really fun episode. I really do encourage listening to the whole thing. So if you do |
| 1:38.6 | want to hear the full episode, you can sign up for gender conceal at patreon.com slash gender, |
| 1:42.9 | where just $5 gets you access not just to this episode, |
| 1:46.4 | but to like all 50 bonus episodes we've made, which is an amazing deal. It's like 10 cents per |
| 1:52.3 | episode. That's incredible. If you're not into that, you can keep listening to this |
| 1:56.3 | abbreviated version of the episode that you're listening to right now, in which we answer questions |
| 2:00.2 | about dealing with the fact that some people transitioned earlier than you did, starting HRT |
| 2:05.7 | despite being unsure about all of its effects and whether you'll like them, how to know whether |
| 2:10.4 | you're on a date and how to date as a neurodivergent trans queer person. Along the way, |
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