Episode 17: Naseem Jamnia
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Tuck speaks with writer and scientist Naseem Jamnia (they/them). Topics include:
- Why biological sex isn't a binary (and why everything you learned in biology class is wrong)
- Busting myths around Islam and queerness
- Is it a good idea to prove trans identity through brain scans?
- Should we include nonbinary folks in women-only spaces?
CW: mention of police brutality @ 3:30
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey buddies, just a few quick notes before we start the show. |
| 0:03.0 | First, there's a content warning for the This Week In Gender section for police brutality and alcoholism, |
| 0:10.0 | and also just like me having a huge attitude and kind of rude voice. I will put |
| 0:14.2 | time stamps in the show net so you can avoid it if you want. Secondly, there's a |
| 0:18.6 | brief period in this episode where a dog barks, maybe not so brief. Anyway, a dog barks. Maybe not so brief. Anyway a dog barks. Sorry about that but on the |
| 0:25.2 | plus side aren't dogs great. Just think about how great dogs are the whole time |
| 0:28.1 | they're barking. Lastly I noticed as I was editing that Naseem's Skype kind of drops out so sometimes you'll |
| 0:34.4 | miss like individual syllables but I hope that their message is still clear I think it |
| 0:39.0 | will be but I just want to let you know that I didn't just like |
| 0:41.0 | randomly edit out chunks of this interview just |
| 0:43.1 | syllables just dropped off but I think it's gonna be great you're gonna learn |
| 0:45.8 | so much it's gonna be rad all right I love you by Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we ask intrusive personal questions and hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm your host and resident gender |
| 1:13.7 | detective Molly Woodstock. |
| 1:25.9 | This week on gender review I am so excited to share my conversation with Naseem Jamnia who is so smart and fun and insightful and kind and taught me |
| 1:30.6 | so much about so many different things. |
| 1:32.8 | But first I need to make a few announcements. |
| 1:35.2 | This show is sponsored as always by our Patreon donors. |
| 1:38.6 | You know who you are. |
| 1:39.8 | I love you. |
| 1:41.2 | In order to make the show accessible to folks who are deaf or hard of hearing or otherwise struggle to engage with podcasts, I'm speaking with a couple of really incredible friends of the show who have volunteered to start transcribing episodes of gender |
| 1:52.6 | feel, which is just so kind and amazing, |
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