Episode 103: Frankie de la Cretaz
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Tuck speaks with sports writer Frankie de la Cretaz (they/them). Topics include:
- Can sports be reformed?
- How do trans sports bans affect transmasc athletes?
- Sobriety, gender, and the cisheteronormativity of AA
- Making your relationship hotter by coming out as trans
- Plus: Unearthing trans elders & dyke drama while writing about football
This Week in Gender: Dana Zzyym finally gets a passport; Cancel Me, Daddy interviews two prominent trans Netflix employees; and the Supreme Court indirectly allows a trans man to sue a Catholic hospital for discrimination.
Find Frankie at britnidlc.com and on twitter/IG @thefrankiedlc. Their book, Hail Mary, is on sale now.
We also recommend Frankie's Sports Illustrated feature "Living Nonbinary in a Binary Sports World" and their InsideHook article, "What About the Trans Athletes Who Compete — And Win — in Men's Sports?"
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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Talltell" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)
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| 0:45.3 | Welcome to GenderReveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding |
| 0:50.1 | what the hell gender is. |
| 1:00.1 | Hey everyone, I hope you're all hanging in there. |
| 1:06.8 | This week on the show, I am very excited to share my conversation with sports writer and |
| 1:11.1 | unofficial GenderReveal merch model Brittany Delacreda. |
| 1:14.2 | Brittany is simply one of the best and most prolific reporters currently covering trans |
| 1:18.6 | athletes and I've been bringing up their work non-stop in workshops and interviews ever |
| 1:23.3 | since I did a deep dive for this episode and realized just how many of their articles |
| 1:27.6 | are just incredible examples of what I want trans reporting to look like. |
| 1:31.8 | They also just published their first book. |
| 1:34.0 | It came out last Tuesday. |
| 1:35.5 | It's called Hail Mary and it is a history of the National Women's Football League. |
| 1:40.4 | So we'll talk about that. |
| 1:42.0 | There's definitely trans books in this book, even if we're not identifying them that way. |
| 1:46.9 | We also talk about gender maximalism, sobriety, whether sports are gay, trans sports discourse, |
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