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Gender Reveal

Episode 118: Avery Tucker

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Tuck speaks with Avery Tucker (he/him) from Girlpool. Topics include:
  • Losing control of your voice… as a touring musician.
  • Learning to accept the existence of your pre-transition self
  • The joys and fears of “trans voice”
  • Plus: Juno, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Theypool?

This Week in Gender: Wales banning conversion therapy; Montana judge blocking birth certificate law; doctor suing UT-Southwestern; sanctuary state bills to support trans families; MCR wants to sell binders

Find Girlpool music & merch at girlpoolmusic.com. Avery is @girlpoool and @av33333ry on IG. Forgiveness is out now!

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to get access to a brand-new bonus podcast, plus our weekly newsletter and other fun perks.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s messages was from Lavender Menace Press.

Find episode transcripts and starter packs for new listeners at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Urbody (promo code: TUCK15)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Your body is a gender affirming underwear and active wear brand that designs gender-inclusive collections by and for the community that address the fit, functionality, and style needs of those across the gender spectrum.

0:12.3

Your body created its own sizing and grading system that's built to fit trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming folks.

0:19.0

Use the iconic trans underwear promo code Tuck15 for 15% off your first your body purchase.

0:26.4

Shop based on fit and style, and remember that you deserve to get dressed for the day with confidence, and that starts with what's underneath.

0:48.8

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

0:56.4

I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuck Woodstock.

1:07.4

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

1:10.4

This week on the show, I am delighted to share my chat with Avery Tucker, who you may know as half of the band Girl Pool.

1:17.4

Avery founded that band nearly a decade ago with his friend Harmony, and I remember watching Avery's transition so closely when he and I were both baby transes.

1:27.4

I'm so happy that I finally got to speak with him after thinking about inviting him on the show for many years and just not doing it.

1:34.4

And you'll hear a lot of my special interest topics in this episode, like transitioning in public, losing control of your singing voice on T.

1:44.4

At moments, I was like, oh my god, I'm like, way in over my head. Like, this is my job. What am I going to do?

1:49.4

And learning to accept that people are just going to keep streaming your old work.

1:54.4

But first, we just put out the first full episode of our new bonus podcast, which is available exclusively via our Patreon.

2:03.4

The episode is actually a recording of the virtual launch event for the book Side Affects on being trans and feeling bad, which was written by Gender Villalum Hill Malatino.

2:14.4

That event was hosted by Blue Stockings, which was such an honor, and it was open to everyone.

2:19.4

But if you missed it live, don't even worry, you can still listen to it at our Patreon that is patreon.com slash gender.

2:27.4

And now it's time for this week in Gender.

2:33.4

Okay, here's the thing about the news right now. It's not just that it's bad.

2:45.4

It's that there's so much of it, like pages and pages of different news items about trans people, and they're like 98% bad.

2:55.4

But Ozzy and I we did through to find a few things that seemed good or good adjacent, and we present them to you now.

3:07.4

Weeks after the British government announced that it would be banning gay and bisexual conversion therapy, but not trans conversion therapy, the government of whales is taking matters into its own hands, and has outlined the steps that it will take to ban conversion therapy for the entire LGBTQ acronym.

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