Welcome to gender reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is.

I'm your host and resident gender detective, Doug Woodstock.

Hey, everyone. I hope you've all been hanging in there.

If I sound a little sick, it's because I am a little bit sick, and I'm sorry to record while sick, but great news.

It is not contagious through a microphone, so you're safe.

We will have a full episode for you next week, but in the meantime, I'm here to talk about this year's festivities for Trans Day of having a nice snack.

If you're not familiar with Trans Day of Snack, no worries. We have made a bonus episode about

it every year since 2022. There is also, I believe, a gender spiral episode where I talk about it,

as well as articles in Vice and Pop Sugar. If you are familiar with Trans-Aaf Snack, you might remember that we

tried a new approach last year. In the past, TransnDNAF snack involved me logging hundreds of

individual donations on a Google sheet and then deputizing some of my friends to help Venmo

a little bit of snack money to more than a thousand trans people every year.

We pivoted away from that model last year for a few reasons.

One is that that just was not a sustainable approach in terms of workload and scope and finances.

Another reason is that the amount that we were pulling in from donations went way down in the last few years.

I think that's because people are rightfully prioritizing people who are in mortal peril over snacks. Totally. No worries.

A third reason that we pivoted away is because I was still being haunted by Dean Spade saying in a gender reel episode that Vemowing

Strangers is like the least community building form of mutual aid, which is so true. And yet,

now as much as ever, trans people do deserve a little treat for like staying alive. So this year

for Trans Day of Snack, we are going to take the same two-pronged approach that we took last year,

part one, option one, for fans of the classic Trans Day of Stagan and having a nice snack model.

We'll be sharing a graphic on Instagram for you to fill out and repost.

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