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Gender Reveal

Episode 1: Gender 101

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Lgbtq, Documentary, Queer, Personal Journals, Gender, Nonbinary, Society & Culture, Genderqueer, Transgender, Trans

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Gender Reveal! In this mini episode, we review essential gender concepts for listeners who might find it useful.

Topics include:

  • How closely related are sex and gender?
  • What steps do people take to transition?
  • How much should I focus on pronouns?
  • How is transphobia connected to racism?

If you’re already comfortable with basic gender terminology, feel free to skip ahead! We’ve listed some of our favorite episodes at genderpodcast.com/starterpacks.

Find an annotated transcript of this episode here or at genderpodcast.com/listen.

Find us on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal and at genderpodcast.com. You can also follow Tuck at @tuckwoodstock.

Learn more about Tuck's trans-focused equity consulting at Sylveon.co.

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Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

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Associate Producer: Julia Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Tuck, host of the Gender Reveal Podcaster currently listening to.

0:05.0

We released our first episode in January 2018,

0:09.0

but what you are about to hear is the remake of that episode,

0:12.0

which was written and released in October 2021.

0:16.4

We are fast-forwarding in time because the original episode one was, for obvious reasons,

0:21.5

our most frequently downloaded episode by far and I think it was

0:26.7

frankly missing some key information and important context which makes sense because when I

0:32.1

made it I wasn't yet a professional gender

0:34.6

detective but people kept downloading it and at some point it started to feel

0:39.7

irresponsible to enable that. So keep in mind that if you proceed from here to

0:46.3

episode two three etc you'll be listening to episodes that I made in 2017 back when I was first figuring out what gender

0:54.8

reveal was what I was what gender was just little details like that.

0:59.8

If I were you I would skip ahead like 60 episodes or use our starter packs at gender

1:08.5

podcast.com slash starter packs to find episodes that fit your interests.

1:13.0

But I'm not the boss of you.

1:15.0

I'm just a disembodied voice on a podcast.

1:18.0

So, thanks for being here.

1:20.0

And here's the show. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to

1:41.8

understanding what the hell gender is.

1:44.6

I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuck Woodstock. Hey everyone. I hope you're all hanging in there. Welcome to

1:59.3

gender reveals season 8. If you are a long time gender reveal listener or if you made the

2:05.6

questionable decision to binge the show from the beginning you may recall that we

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