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 Tuck Woodstock.

Hey everyone. I hope you're all hanging in there. I don't even know what to say at this point. On Wednesday

there was an attempted coup at the U.S. capital amidst a global pandemic and here I am making my little

podcast like everything is chill. This week on the show I'm hyp to share my conversation with Ari Robbins Green. I had

so much fun talking to Ari. You will probably hear me laugh more in this episode

than in all of the 2020 episodes combined.

We start by talking about Ari's work

with trans health care policy.

A lot of people want these surgeries,

not because they feel trapped in the wrong body per se. They feel totally unsafe when they're going to

their apartments when they're walking in a parking lot. And then we move on to

talking about raising kids in a gender inclusive way and about giving birth as a trans masculine person

while being filmed for a TLC reality television special.

I'm trans and people are like what and I'm like I have a uterus. They're like oh my God I had no idea and I'm trans and people are like what and I'm like I have a uterus they're like oh my God I had no idea and I'm like I don't care anyways I'm pregnant

and they be like what how do you do that and I was like with sperm but before we get to that two quick things. One is that we have a bunch of new stuff in the

merch shop this month including my a co-babe's trans-piratship design and Meg's gorgeous trans folks are sacred design.

That's all available through January 31st at bit.ly

slash gender merch.

Secondly, I'm really trying to have better work-life balance this year and that sometimes necessitates bringing

other folks in to help me out.

I would not have been able to make this episode without production help from

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