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.

Hey everyone, I'm recording this episode from the past and obviously all

podcasts are recorded from the past but this is extra from the past. I'm

recording this on August 1st by the time you hear this it will be at least

August 13th if not later. And by August 13th I should be off the PCT and back into the regular world of cell phone reception and push notifications about the world being on fire

and running water and showers. But by August 13th I will have just gotten off the trail and I don't think I'm going to want to get off the trail and immediately just spend like an entire day and a half making a new podcast.

So to give myself some wiggle room and also because who knows what the hell is going to happen there's like fires everywhere

anyway just in case I've prepared another special guest bonus episode for you.

This episode is the second ever episode of a brand new podcast called Public Trans.

Now remember, I'm recording from the past.

Public Trans has not launched yet, but theoretically by the time you're hearing this,

the first episode is out in the world. Public

trans talks about what it means to be trans in the public eye and breaks down

questions that trans folks face every day. Examples include, how do you pass if you

don't identify as a binary gender? How do we raise

children with or without gender? What challenges do the modern dating landscape

confront us with? What are the failings of mainstream androgeny?

Public Trans is the product of two they's.

I don't know if it's okay to call people who's they

them pronoun of they, but I do this all the time

when people misgender me, they're like, oh,

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