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Gender Reveal

Episode 100C: Lola Pellegrino

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Tuck chats with nurse practitioner and HRT provider Lola Pellegrino (she/her) as Cis Day of Visibility continues. Topics include:

  • Reimagining "women's" health centers
  • HRT myth-busting (e.g., what if there's air in my shot?)
  • What's the deal with microdosing?
  • Do birth control pills count as HRT?
  • Plus: body goo, pharmacy goss, and when a "sex change" becomes a sex change.

Find Lola @damsorrow and at lolapellegrino.com. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:29.9

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0:42.3

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

1:03.8

I'm your host, and resident gender detective, Tuckwood Stock.

1:13.3

Hey everyone, I hope you're all hanging in there. Welcome back to Sustaya Visibility, an idea that was funny at the time.

1:24.8

Today on the show we are talking to Nurse Practitioner and HRT Provider Lola Pellegrino, and I want to explain a little bit because I can imagine that some people will be like,

1:34.3

why didn't you invite a trans healthcare provider onto the show? That's a good question.

1:39.3

I have tried to book trans healthcare providers in the past. I will continue to work on that for the future.

1:44.3

But honestly, this interview was originally booked just because I was trying to find someone I could do like a very trolley Z-way type interview for Sustaya Visibility, and Lola was very up for that.

1:58.8

So we tried that, and then at some point I was like, actually this is a weird energy, and what I would love is if instead we just tried you providing useful information about medical transition to thousands of trans people.

2:09.8

Not to say that it's official medical advice, I'm sure I'm supposed to say it is not official medical advice.

2:15.8

Anyway, in this episode we talk about renaming and redefining women's health, and then we spend a lot of time talking about HRT.

2:24.3

There is not a single medication that has been approved specifically for gender HRT use.

2:30.3

So we're just like taking a bunch of medications from other places and repurposing them.

2:34.8

There is nothing graphic in here at all, but if you are very, very sensitive to the concept of medical things or human bodies, you might want to skip this one.

2:44.3

We do talk about shots, and also like weird goo.

2:49.3

We're all full of goo, man. That's just the way it rolls.

2:52.3

But before we get to that, I just want to let you know something very exciting, which is that we are putting together a few live shows right now.

3:00.3

Of course, if COVID lets places exist, like TBD, maybe none of this will happen, but maybe it will happen.

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