What? Welcome to Gender Appeal, 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 Tuck Woodstock.

Hey everyone, I hope you're all hanging in there. Welcome to the long

overdue season finale of Gender Reveal season five. So much has happened

since the last time we spoke. Every day is 100 days long and yet somehow

it is August already. For everyone who is new to the show, welcome, this is a show where trans people talk to other trans people and today I am very

excited to share my chat with Hideo Higashi Baba, which I recorded way back in the second before times.

He'dio and I talk about his experiences growing up in a cult.

We talk about how his drag persona allowed him to explore his identity.

We talk about rebuilding your entire worldview from scratch. Talk about so much.

much, but before we get to all that, just a couple of house notes.

First, thank you so much to everyone who bought merch during our special Pride Month merch

Extravagansa we raised more than a thousand dollars for different

trans artists trans organizations black-led organizations and sex worker-led

organizations more details if you want them, but basically it was a huge

success and I appreciate you all very much.

The merch store is currently empty.

I will get new designs in there soon, but if you would like to contribute to the store you can reach out to us

at gender reveal at g email.com and we will work with you to see if you can contribute a design to the store

assuming you are trans. Secondly, if you are lacking in

trans community during this long long long pandemic quarantine situation,

check out our Slack, the gender detective Slack. It is a great place to go if you are trans, if you aren't sure what your

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