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Welcome to gender reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tech Woodstock.

Hey everyone, hope you're all hanging in there. Welcome to our season 9 finale. McKenzie, fan favorite, is back on the show to answer advice questions about things like doctors, offices, pronouns, parents, babies, boobs, and high school biology class.

But before we get to that, it is the end of the season, so I do have a few extra housekeeping notes. Please bear with me.

First, if this is your first episode of gender reveal, welcome. Thank you for being here. I'll say more about this at the end of the episode, but just so you know, we have a page on our website with suggestions of other episodes to listen to if you're just trying to figure out where to jump in.

That guide has episodes sorted by topics so you can find something that fits your specific interests. And that's all at genderpodcast.com slash starter packs.

We also have a gender 101 episode if that's something that you think you might want or need. If this is not your first episode and in fact, maybe you're all caught up and you are sad that we are about to go on a season hiatus.

The best way to avoid the break part of the break is to join us at patreon.com slash gender. Just $1 a month gets you access to our weekly newsletter and $5 to $10 a month gets you access to our monthly bonus podcast.

I have been avoiding saying the name of our bonus podcast on the show because it was like a special treat for subscribers, but I will tell you now it is called gender conceal.

So both the newsletter and gender conceal will keep running through the season break as a thank you for keeping Aussie and me employed again that's at patreon.com slash gender.

You can also stay in touch with us by joining our online community for listeners that is at bit.ly slash gender hyphen slack.

Finally, we've got our merch store restocked for August with a handful of new designs plus some old favorites like T for T Mothman, Nature's Queer, and the gender reveal school.

As always, you have one month to grab whatever you want before everything disappears out of the shop and proceeds as always will be split between the artists and rad transled organizations.

That is all at bit.ly slash gender merch. And now it's time for this week in gender.

This week the state and national news is once again mostly very bad. So we asked all of you to send in good news via tweet or voice memo. Let's start with the two voice memos that we received.

My trans story is a week or so ago I watched the sunset with a trans woman, a new friend and she said trans people are like the sunset and it was beautiful.

Hey gender reveal. My name is Carl Charles and I'm a trans attorney working at Lambda Legal Nations oldest and largest legal advocacy group working to vindicate the rights of LGBTQ people and everyone living with HIV.

And I wanted to share with you and with your listeners that on Tuesday, August 2nd, we received an amazing ruling from a federal district judge in West Virginia who ruled in favor of our plaintiffs in our challenge to West Virginia Medicaid's exclusion of coverage for gender affirming surgeries for trans and non binary people.

It's an incredible victory. Not only did the judge find our arguments to win the day under the Constitution, but he also certified a class which means that this ruling applies to the class of people that is transgender Medicaid recipients in West Virginia who would seek or are seeking this kind of care.

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