Episode 22: Ryan Cassata
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Tuck speaks with Ryan Cassata (he/him), an award-winning singer-songwriter, actor, performer, writer, LGBTQ activist & motivational speaker. Topics include:
- "I was forced into activism to survive."
- Barging into the principal's office to advocate for trans kids.
- Coming out—and getting misgendered—on Larry King Live.
- Navigating bathrooms as someone who doesn't always pass as male or female.
- "I just want people to stop being afraid of trans people."
Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here and here and here and here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends just popping in before the show to let you know that the audio for this |
| 0:03.7 | week's interview is a little bit glitchy and that's because Skype call recorder |
| 0:07.3 | betrayed us and Skype also betrayed us a double betrayal and so you might not even |
| 0:12.3 | notice I think you're still going to have a really great time, but I just wanted to acknowledge it up front. |
| 0:16.0 | It's still perfectly listenable. Probably shouldn't have brought it up in the first place. |
| 0:20.0 | Okay, here's the show. 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. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm your host and resident gender detective Molly Woodstock. |
| 0:51.0 | Hey friends hope you're staying hydrated. We have a great |
| 0:56.8 | episode for you this week but before we get to that I have a bunch of |
| 0:59.5 | announcements. First of all thank you so much to everyone who's sending questions for our |
| 1:03.6 | upcoming advice episode. We're still looking for a few more questions, so if you |
| 1:07.5 | need advice on anything gender or queerness related or are confused about what a |
| 1:10.8 | specific term means, you can hit us up via Twitter, email, or the Google |
| 1:14.6 | form in the show notes. Secondly, gender reveal is on Spotify now. I'm so excited. If you have a friend |
| 1:21.3 | who doesn't listen to podcast because they don't want to figure out how podcast apps work, now they don't have to. |
| 1:26.0 | We also made a really handy link to our iTunes listing, it's Bit.ly- |
| 1:30.0 | slash Gender-Pod. |
| 1:32.0 | So those are two extremely easy ways to find the |
| 1:33.7 | podcast share the podcast so please tell your friends and thank you to everyone |
| 1:37.5 | who's helped us spread the word so far by tweeting about the show. Finally as you |
| 1:41.4 | know we are 100% listener funded, so thank you so much to each and every one of you who are helping us fund the show. |
| 1:47.5 | We currently have 96 patrons, and I'd love to get to a hundred because I love round numbers. |
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