Episode 31.5: Trans Folks Win the U.S. Midterms
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, Tuck recaps several of the trans and queer success stories of the U.S. midterm election, and shares the date of the Gender Reveal season 3 premiere(!)
Read more: Over 150 LGBTQ candidates claim victory in midterm elections
Read Tuck's op-ed in the Washington Post and their guide to cis allyship in Bitch.
Listen to Nancy podcasts's story about the Massachusetts "Yes on 3" campaign.
Check out Dr. Logan Casey's comprehensive list of transgender candidates in the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey this is Molly, just jumping in with bonus content before the bonus content. |
| 0:05.0 | Mostly I just wanted to say that I say that a lot of folks were the first |
| 0:09.0 | trans people to be elected in various capacities and what I mean by that is the first openly |
| 0:14.4 | trans people I can't believe I forgot that but please just keep in mind that when I |
| 0:18.4 | say that any queer trans person is the first to do anything. I mean openly so. Also I used Blue Dot |
| 0:25.5 | sessions music in this piece and I didn't credit them so thanks Blue Dot sessions. |
| 0:31.2 | All right here we go. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we ask intrusive personal questions and hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding |
| 0:54.6 | what the hell gender is. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm your host and resident gender detective Molly Woodstock. talk. |
| 1:17.5 | Hello everyone. I hope you've all been hanging in there. I meant to get this episode up earlier, instead of recording I adopted a 10 week old kitten and I don't regret it. Anyway, we're still on hiatus, but if you stick around until the end of the show, you'll hear a special announcement about season three of gender reveal. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm really excited about the folks we'll be talking to this season, and I can't wait for you to hear it. |
| 1:31.6 | But today, I wanted to talk to you about the results of the |
| 1:34.6 | recent midterm election in the United States, particularly as it relates to |
| 1:38.5 | LGBTQ folks. The news is so often terrible, particularly for trans folks, and I just wanted to take advantage |
| 1:44.7 | of the opportunity to share some good news, or at least some not bad news. |
| 1:58.0 | First and foremost, I wanted to celebrate the fact that Measure 3 passed in Massachusetts thanks to the very hard work of hundreds of trans folks and allies there. This measure protected a state law that had been passed in 2016, |
| 2:07.6 | which allowed trans folks to use the bathrooms, locker rooms, and other gendered facilities |
| 2:11.4 | that correspond to their actual gender. So in other words, Massachusetts and other |
| 2:13.7 | in other words, Massachusetts already had legal protections for trans folks, |
| 2:18.2 | but now some people were trying to take them away. |
| 2:21.2 | But it didn't happen. Massachusetts overwhelmingly voted to |
| 2:24.8 | support trans folks at more than a two to one margin. In fact, I did some counting, |
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