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Gender Reveal

Episode 88: Noah Adams

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tuck speaks with Noah Adams (he/him), co-author of Trans and Autistic. Topics include:

  • Are transness and autism connected in some way?
  • The compounding gatekeeping faced by autistic trans people
  • The dark connections between ABA and queer conversion therapy
  • The enduring legacy of Rain Man

This Week in Gender: Special guest Nina Medvedeva talks about the Euphoria app and trans venture capitalism. 

Purchase Trans and Autistic through Another Story (Canada) or Bookshop (US).

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Browse our February merch collection at bit.ly/gendermerch.

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Find our new FAQ page(!) and episode transcripts at genderpodcast.com.

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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Welcome Home Sonny" by Blue Dot Sessions
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Tak just popping him before the show to say that there are two instances in this week's interview

0:05.4

talking about the murder of autistic people. The first talks about police violence. It's near the beginning of the interview

0:12.6

and the second reference is near the end of the interview. So take care of yourself and here's the show.

0:30.4

Welcome to gender reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is.

0:40.4

I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tak Woodstock.

0:50.7

Hey everyone, I really hope you're all hanging in there. This week on the show, I'm excited to share my conversation with Noah Adams,

0:58.5

one of the co-authors of the book, Trans and Autistic. As you might expect, Noah and I talk a lot about the intersections

1:05.4

between transness and autism, including the compounding gatekeeping faced by autistic trans people,

1:12.1

the intertwined history of ABA and trans conversion therapies, and whether being trans and being autistic,

1:19.6

and having ADHD are linked in some way. Jury is still out on that one. But before we get to that,

1:26.0

a couple quick things. First, this is your last week to shop our February merch collection.

1:32.4

So if you've been eyeing our FEMS can be them sure, or the welcome to fabulous gender hell stickers,

1:39.0

or our new Make It Gay collection, please head over there now. That's all at bit.ly slash

1:45.2

gender merch. Do not email me on March 1st and ask for everything is it will be gone. Secondly,

1:50.5

if you missed last week's announcement, we have a new FAQ page on our website.

1:55.5

So if you have a question at any point about the podcast, the merch store, the Patreon,

2:00.6

the grant, the virtual aid fund, the transcription program, any of that, you can find answers

2:06.3

at genderpodcast.com slash FAQ, which my autocorrect keeps knowingly changing to genderpodcast.com slash

2:14.7

F-A-G. Incredible. Last but not least, we've got some they mail for you today. They mail is a

2:20.8

program where a listener sends us a little bit of money and we read a little message on the show.

2:27.0

This message is from Malooly Consulting Inc. Who writes. This queer accountant is here to make your

2:33.4

personal and business finances easier. I am offering tax preparation, business consultations,

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