Episode 64: Paige Kreisman
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Tuck speaks with Paige Kreisman (she/her), a democratic socialist running for statewide office. (See content warnings below.) Topics include:
- Why many trans folks hate the military… but enlist at twice the rate of cis people
- Why so many trans people are socialists
- How "progressive" states fail at trans healthcare
- Why the prison industrial complex is a trans issue
- What trans people should know about running for office
Content notes: mentions of rape (13, 21), trans death (22), and death threats (13, 32).
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| 0:00.0 | Wow. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to |
| 0:19.8 | understanding what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and resident gender |
| 0:25.6 | detective Molly Woodstock. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey everyone hope you're all hanging in there. This week on the show I |
| 0:37.6 | speak with Paige Christman, a Democratic Socialist running for the Oregon |
| 0:41.7 | House of Representatives. And yes, I did |
| 0:44.8 | accidentally scheduled to Democratic Socialists back to back, my bad, but if you are |
| 0:49.3 | mad about hearing about prison abolition or trans health care two weeks in a row, this |
| 0:54.5 | honestly probably isn't the ideal podcast for you anyway. I mean stay and |
| 0:59.8 | listen. I'm just saying. Anyway, Paige and I talk about trans folks complicated |
| 1:06.1 | relationships to the military trans health care in quote-unquote |
| 1:10.4 | progressive states just the consultation is two years right now. |
| 1:15.2 | And then to actually get scheduled after that |
| 1:17.0 | is between one and three more years. |
| 1:19.3 | And White Page decided to run for office. |
| 1:22.0 | I know I'm never going to have the opportunity to have a big |
| 1:25.2 | house with a white picket fence and a family and kids and a dog or whatever it is that |
| 1:29.2 | cis people want in life. So my choices then are to fight back or to die, essentially. |
| 1:35.0 | But first, thank you so much to everyone who has joined us on Patreon in the last week, |
| 1:42.0 | including but not limited to Joe, Joe, David, Addy, Souja, Scout, Yolanda, Nieve, and Tal. |
| 1:50.6 | Your support is what allows me to spend the bulk of my week on this podcast and its surrounding projects like |
| 1:57.0 | merch, transcripts, grants, newsletters, etc. forever. |
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