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Welcome to Gender Review, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. I'm your host and President Gender Detective, Tech Woodstock.

Hey everyone, hope you're all hanging in there. This is gonna show I am very excited to share my chat with Solay Ho. If you are a true head, a very dedicated gender detective, you might remember Solay from all the way back in Season 1 Episode 8.

In that one, Solay was like, I'm a woman, and I was like, hmm, are you? And they were like, don't worry about it. And now here we are, six years later.

These days, Solay is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and in this episode, we talk about which of their takes are too spicy for the Chronicle, whether we should abolish restaurants, and what Solay learned from infiltrating an anti-trans dinner.

What do you eat, and then what do you drink when you are talking about Marxism and anime turning your child to the devil?

We also talk about their like super chill and totally attainable future goals, such as Worldwide Socialist Revolution.

But before we get to that, a couple quick reminders. First, if you're a patron, don't forget to check if you are in fact still a patron, because I've been told there was a weird glitch a few weeks ago that I'm subscribed to some people.

I don't want you to miss out on our newsletter and bonus episodes. And also, like to be honest, I want Ozzy and I to have jobs.

I know checking your billing info is not like the sexiest thing in the world, but don't worry, because this next thing is the sexiest thing in the world.

Our Brooklyn live show is in one week. It's on Monday, August 28th, and joining me on stage will be Maddie Lipchanski, Casey Plett, Fran Toronto, Kendra Wells.

Ozzy will be in the back running the show. We'll have a bunch of other friends of the show in the audience. Maybe I'll rope them onto the stage somehow who can say.

I would love to see you there. That is at 7.30 p.m. at the Bellhouse. We've still got some tickets available. So head to bit.ly slash speed reading 23 to grab yours.

Link is in the show notes. And now it's time for this week in gender.

This week in gender, I wanted to touch on an academic paper published a couple weeks ago. You might have heard about it.

On August 9th, the fancy peer review journal Jamma surgery published a new paper called Long-Term regret in satisfaction with decision following gender affirming this act to me.

Or, in other words, do people regret getting top surgery.

Once again, I'm not an expert in any of this, but from what I understand, there is a set of standardized surveys that are used to determine regret and satisfaction rates among patients undergoing various procedures and treatments. They've used these in all sorts of studies before.

The results from these surveys are called appropriately the satisfaction with decision scale score and the decision regret scale score. We will come back to those in a second.

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