Episode 91: Torrey Peters
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Tuck speaks with Torrey Peters (she/her), author of Detransition, Baby. Topics include:
- A brief history of t4t tattoos
- The secrets of real-life trans supervillains
- Why Torrey's moving past trans separatism
- Four generations of trans history buried in a twitter beef
- Plus: FTF transsexuals, disaster euphoria, writing better jokes, and why Torrey might be done writing about affairs with wealthy men
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding |
| 0:19.6 | what the hell gender is. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuckwood Stock. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey everyone, I hope you're all hanging in there. |
| 0:37.0 | This week on the show, I am thrilled to share my conversation with Tori Peters, the author |
| 0:41.5 | of Detransition Baby. |
| 0:44.2 | I keep wanting to say it, Detransition Baby, but I don't think that's how you're supposed |
| 0:48.3 | to say it. |
| 0:49.3 | Anyway, this conversation is neck and neck with Kaicheng Tom for the longest episode |
| 0:53.7 | we've ever had, and I don't want to spoil it for you, but I will let Tori give you one |
| 0:59.0 | little spoiler. |
| 1:08.0 | Speaking of spoilers, as you'll hear, I do not really explain anything about Detransition |
| 1:12.7 | Baby in the interview. |
| 1:14.4 | There are plenty of plot summaries online if you're into that sort of thing. |
| 1:19.0 | What I'll tell you is that this book is about Reese, a trans woman, Ames, a detransitioned |
| 1:23.5 | trans woman, and Katrina, a cis woman, they're all in their thirties in New York. |
| 1:28.4 | She also mentioned Infecture Friends and Loved Ones, which is a novella, and all you need |
| 1:33.3 | to know about that is that it's about trans people in a pandemic. |
| 1:37.2 | Tori's novellas are actually free on her website if you would like to read them. |
| 1:41.3 | Tori was very generous with her time, so her interview went really long, and you might |
| 1:45.0 | hear some crosstalk in the background in the last 10 minutes or so of the interview. |
| 1:49.4 | It's fine. |
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