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Gender Reveal

Episode 127: Edith Surreal

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tuck speaks with pro wrestler Edith Surreal (she/her). Topics include:

  • What happens when a masked wrestler gets an FFS consult?
  • Combining ballroom culture with pro wrestling
  • Is playing a heel Bad Trans Representation?
  • Plus: Why wrestling is like a real-life comic book, a soap opera, a drag show, and Super Smash Bros.

This Week in Gender: Justine Lindsay; new Pew data; Emma Corrin in Vogue; and lots of news from Germany.

Find Edith @edithsurreal on Twitter and IG and at edithsurreal.com.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s messages are from Trans Book Box and Jordan Ross (learn more about the free voice workshop here).

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Browse our nonprofit merch shop at bit.ly/gendermerch.

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/gender-slack.

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
Additional Music: “These Times” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:23.0

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0:32.0

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

0:53.0

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

1:02.0

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

1:09.0

This is going to show I'm excited to share my chat with professional wrestler Edith Surreal.

1:14.0

In this episode, Edith talks about the growing queer and trans pro-wrestling movement, how wrestling helped her transition, and what it means to be good trans-wrestling representation.

1:25.0

There are times where I want to be a heal wrestler, I want to be bad, I want to do bad things.

1:30.0

But first, just wanted to let you know we've got our merch shop fully restocked for July, including three new designs that all have very powerful energy.

1:39.0

You really just got to go look at it.

1:41.0

Also, in honor of Niko's Fantastic Bonus Podcast episode from last week, we've brought back her two most iconic merch designs, which of course are the Surf Don't Turf tank tops, and the Trains flag shirt and mug.

1:54.0

These will disappear back out of the shop at the end of this month, so grab them all you can at bit.ly slash gender merch.

2:02.0

And now, it's time for this week in gender.

2:12.0

This week, we're going to do a good old-fashioned news roundup, and it is quick because most of the news is bad. Here we go.

2:20.0

As you may have heard, the Carolina Panthers have hired a 29-year-old Justine Lindsay as a cheerleader, making her the first openly transgender cheerleader in the NFL.

2:33.0

New data from the Pew Research Center indicates that 1.5% of the U.S. population is trans indoor non-binary, including more than 5% of people ages 18 to 29.

2:45.0

Although to be honest, people do these types of surveys all the time, the numbers always vary.

2:49.0

I did think it was funny that this one said that only 37% of participants aged 18 to 29, so like only a third-ish, said that they knew even one non-binary person.

3:02.0

Like, no offense, but literally how is that possible?

3:05.0

Speaking of non-binary people aged 18 to 29, in Hashtag representation news, Emma Corrin has become the first non-binary person to appear on the cover of Vogue.

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