Episode 267 Promo - Lost in Translation (w/ Erin Reed)
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4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Briahna speaks to Erin Reed, a journalist who has been covering the hundreds of anti-trans bills that have been proposed this year more closely and thoroughly than perhaps anyone in the country. They discuss the activist community's disappointment over Biden's recent compromise on Title IX and trans women in sports, and Briahna asks some tough questions in an effort to give voice to what is perhaps some good faith confusion about how to negotiate the reality that sports are currently divided on the basis of physical advantages associated with those whose sex is assigned male at birth. They also discuss messaging around the gender identity of the Nashville shooter, the recent dust up around the Emily Yoffe article which allegedly misrepresented a nonbinary child's experience with gender affirming care, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, it's funny because you mentioned that they were flawed and they are. |
| 0:04.4 | And here's the problem. |
| 0:05.2 | And I think that this actually gets to the whole point of trying to legislate this away. |
| 0:10.4 | People are trying to legislate a gender binary that doesn't exist. |
| 0:13.7 | And here's why this is an issue. |
| 0:15.7 | So, yeah, the Olympics came up with new ways of doing it. |
| 0:18.7 | They used hormone levels. |
| 0:20.1 | These new ways significantly |
| 0:21.6 | harmed cisgender women as well. Because what ends up happening now is that cis women who have |
| 0:27.9 | high levels of testosterone are now forced to take hormone suppressants in order to compete. |
| 0:33.3 | These are cis women that were born, biologically female, quote unquote. I take issue with that term. |
| 0:39.6 | But let's just say, you know, they were assigned female at birth. And they're cisgender and they have high rates of testosterone. |
| 0:46.3 | In order to compete, they have to suppress their own bodies. There is no easy answer. That's what I'm trying to say here. |
| 0:51.2 | There's actually no way of truly policing the boundaries of gender through legislation. |
| 0:57.3 | The Olympics have struggled with this for years. |
| 0:59.4 | I mean, the problem is that we do, the problem is that in the sports context, this is why sports is, we do police sex in sports. |
| 1:09.3 | We like we already do. |
| 1:10.6 | It's not like some of these other areas where, you know, you can make an argument about |
| 1:14.5 | this is a women's choir or a boy's choir or something like that, where the whole purpose of |
| 1:21.2 | us, we have decided as a society right or wrong, that men are stronger and faster, cis men are stronger and faster |
| 1:29.2 | than cis women. And for cis women to have an opportunity to compete in sports and enjoy the game |
| 1:34.2 | and compete at a high level in college or beyond, you have to give them their own leagues where men |
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