Welcome to gender reveal.

A podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender

is.

Find your host and resident gender detective, Tuckwood Stock.

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

Welcome to gender reveal season 8.

If you are a long time gender reveal listener or if you made the questionable decision

to binge the show from the beginning, you may recall that we started the show with a glossary

of terms for folks who are new to talking about gender or transness.

That episode was made in 2017, which as we all know, was 400 years ago.

Since then, I co-founded Sylve Young Consulting with my friend Cass Adair and began teaching

dozens of workshops that also aimed to explain in simple terms what gender is.

But here's the thing, gender isn't simple.

We don't even have a widely agreed upon definition for what gender is.

The more I teach these workshops and revisit our initial gender 101 episode, the more

I'm faced with the fact that these basic definitions are a little bit too basic.

I really believe that we can create space for nuance even in introductory conversations

about gender.

So what I'm going to do here is take another swing at our gender 101 episode to reflect

both the changing way that our communities speak about these things and the things that

I've learned over the four years of making this show.

And disclaimer here, that trans people are not a monolith, as shown by the roughly 100

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