Episode 31: Diana James, Sophie Corvidae, and the GRA
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
[CN: mentions of assault, transphobia, suicide]
In this special bonus episode, Tuck speaks with Diana James (she/her) and Sophie Corvidae (xe/xir) about the Gender Recognition Act reform currently being debated in the United Kingdom.
Looking for ways to support trans folks in the UK? Diana recommends donating to Mermaids, and Sophie suggests supporting Trans Pride Brighton. Find other UK orgs at Trans Unite.
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| 0:00.0 | And Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we ask intrusive personal questions and hopefully |
| 0:20.2 | get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. I'm your |
| 0:24.3 | host and resident gender detective Molly Woodstock. |
| 0:27.3 | Hello everyone I hope you're still hanging in there. It's been a really rough |
| 0:38.4 | week to be trans in the United States or the United Kingdom or large swaths of the internet. |
| 0:45.0 | Speaking of which, you may have just discovered us on the internet via my semi-viral |
| 0:50.2 | posts on both Twitter and Instagram. |
| 0:52.9 | If so, welcome. |
| 0:54.0 | We're a podcast about gender. |
| 0:55.8 | Maybe go back and listen to some of our normal episodes. |
| 0:59.5 | Anyway, both the United States and the United Kingdom are currently facing federal changes to policies surrounding transgender folks, |
| 1:07.0 | which has led to really horrific public discourse about whether trans people are in fact people. |
| 1:12.0 | The Trump administration for example is |
| 1:14.8 | literally arguing that certain folks such as trans folks and possibly also |
| 1:18.5 | queer folks don't deserve basic civil rights. Where have we heard this before in American history? |
| 1:24.0 | As you know, I am currently in the middle of producing season 3 of gender reveal so I typically |
| 1:29.0 | wouldn't be releasing any new content right now, but I did feel like it was incredibly irresponsible to not cover |
| 1:34.8 | what's been going on in both the UK and the US. |
| 1:38.1 | I will be tackling the situation in the United States in a later episode, but I did already start working on this |
| 1:44.6 | episode about the UK before the news in the US even broke. Because I don't live in |
| 1:49.8 | the UK, I asked two of our listeners to Phyllison on what's been going on across the pond. |
| 1:55.3 | My name is Sophie Corverday. I'm a non-binary person from Brighton in the United Kingdom. |
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