Welcome. 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. I'm your host and

resident gender detective Molly Woodstock.

Hello everyone I I hope your Pride Month is going well. I'm very tired because it turns

out that going to Pride events every night for a week is very exhausting, especially when you don't normally leave your house

more than once a week, but it's also very fun and great and good.

I was also on the vegan warrior princess's attack podcast this week, pretending to know things about the Equal Rights Amendment.

So check that out if you're into it.

I'm really excited to get to this week in gender, but before I do, I need to remind you that

this show, as always, is sponsored by our very generous and kind

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for all of your support. Special thanks to Chance this week who just

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you stickers and possibly other fun things and with that it's time for this

week in gender. As promised, this week in gender, we're talking about the recent ruling in Masterpiece

Cake Shop versus the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

You've probably seen headlines about how the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a guy who wouldn't

make cakes for gay folks, and that's true, but we're going to unpack it a little bit more here, because there's a lot that folks probably haven't gleaned just from push notifications. So, in 2012, a couple named Charlie Craig and David Mullins went into masterpiece cake shop in

Colorado to ask for a wedding cake for their wedding. Of course Colorado had

to legalize same-sex marriage in 2012 so they were going to go to Massachusetts to get married

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