Well, Welcome to Gender Review, a podcast where we 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. Thank you so so much for your patience and for your

incredible words of support and affirmation after my very scary, very vulnerable mini episode about

well butrin and Lave Island and homophobia and all of that. The reception to that

episode was absolutely incredible and I am so grateful for you

for being just the best community I've ever had. Honestly the fact that y'all care more

about my own mental health and like self-care than I do is deeply

helpful to me finding balance in my life and I just I just really appreciate you

anyway this week on the show I spoke with somatic therapist and politicized

healer Brooke Step and I am so excited about this episode. We talk about so many

super relevant and useful things like finding a therapist as a trans person,

supporting a friend through an eating disorder, distinguishing whether you're a

high-fem non-binary person or a woman using pronouns as suicide prevention and gender communism.

Speaking of which, please check the show notes for time-stamped content warnings

for eating disorders and suicidality.

Okay, that's all coming up, but first just a couple

announcements as always. We have new stuff going on in the merch store. Our friend

Bo-Polena has created a very cute, very posse design that says every gender is real

invalid with like sparkles and stuff. We are selling them as shirts in pink and

black and black and black and black. I priced both the stickers and the shirts like as low as I could feasibly price them. So hopefully they feel accessible to you if you want one.

You also have one week left to pick up a support trans media shirt, which is available in black or purple.

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