E93. Buck Angel Discusses How The Trans Community Has Been Co-Opted

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🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Buck Angel is a 58 year-old trans man who is speaking out against the mob mentality that has taken over the trans community. He and Bridget discuss his life before his transition, how he was essentially a human “guinea pig” in the early days of his transition, the long road and struggle for acceptance, and how the trans movement of today has developed something of a “cult-like” ideology where if you don’t speak and think in a specific way, they don’t want you as a member. He and Bridget discuss the “trans trenders,” the rewriting of factual information, why the label “cis” feels derogatory, how there’s no oversight and no system in allowing young people to self-diagnose as “trans,” being attacked by his own community, and why we should follow the money on the sudden push to enable sexual reassignment surgeries. As an elderly trans person whose own transition saved his life, Buck is passionate about the dangers he sees in the community today, and the fact that this push to transition will kill people.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
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0:08.3	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
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0:32.0	We love your feedback and we want to hear from you.
0:35.0	This week I'm very excited to welcome Buck Angel on the podcast.
0:40.0	Buck is an American pornographic film, actor, and producer, sex educator, and motivational speaker.
0:47.0	He is the founder of Buck Angel Entertainment, a media production company, a transsexual man who received the 2007 Avian Award as Transsexual
0:56.6	performer of the year. He now works as an advocate, educator, lecturer, and
1:01.6	writer. I'm with Buck Angel everyone. Welcome to
1:05.4	Watkins. Welcome back. Awesome. Thank you for having me awesome person.
1:10.0	I've been meaning to talk to you for ages and I always feel like it ends up happening exactly perfectly when it should.
1:17.6	You are so right. I'm a believer of the universe. It's a real thing. What you put out there will come back to you and you put on a lot of good stuff and that's why you are a good person. I really admire what I watch you I watch everything you do I watch how you speak out everything I just love you so I'm really super excited to talk to you today.
1:34.4	Yeah, yeah I'm excited you you do the same you're very what's been so interesting to me is watching you
1:42.1	you're kind of the old school trans community and my friends are old
1:48.3	school trans community and it's funny there seems to be a generational divide that is occurring or has occurred.
1:56.0	You think?
1:58.0	But you know, actually that actually I would say yes you're right, but I have to tell you that there's a lot of youngsters coming to me and you know, it's really telling me thank you, Tramp Hall, which is what they call me because I'm an old tranny, so they call me Trampaw, but that said, they come to me and they tell me thank you they
2:14.4	feel too scared to speak out but what I am doing is really important to them so I do have a lot of
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