Gender Euphoria: What Happens When We Support Trans Kids?

Into the Mix

Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 537 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

As lawmakers consider more than 500 anti-trans bills nationwide, experts warn that these efforts will increase already-high rates of depression and suicidality for trans kids. But what happens when these kids are affirmed and supported in their transition? When their communities welcome them with open arms? Hear the story of Oli Oski, who, when he was just seven years old, helped convince an LGBTQ resource center to start offering play groups for trans and queer kids under 13. Oli is 19 now, and already he’s left a legacy for the next generation of LGBTQ kids who face acute social and political persecution. Host Ashley C. Ford helps tell this story of self determination, legacy, and sanctuary. Learn more about Outright Vermont here. Into The Mix has been nominated in the Signal Awards for Best Public Service & Activism podcast! Vote for us below to help support the show. Voting closes on October 5. https://bit.ly/itmsignal

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0:00.0	You're listening to Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, produced with Vox Creative.
0:07.8	I'm Ashley C. Ford. A quick warning that this episode contains discussion of suicide.
0:17.5	It's a spring morning at Drexel University in Philadelphia, and the neighborhood is thrumming
0:23.6	with jackhammers and construction. We're getting a tour from first-year student Oliver
0:29.4	Oskie, who goes by Oli. He's wearing a beanie and baggy jeans with silver rings on all
0:35.9	ten fingers, and he seems excited to be showing us his favorite spots on campus.
0:41.3	This is the Squash Center, U.S. Squash Center.
0:44.3	Our president, John Fry, loves squash.
0:47.3	So he put squash everywhere.
0:50.3	I have no idea how to play squash.
0:53.3	There's a park I have no idea how to play squash.
1:04.0	There's a park which overlooks the train tracks and then the whole city skyline. That's a fun place to sit and like we'll do our work outside or all sit down.
1:12.1	Tell us how your first semester has been.
1:15.7	Overall, really good.
1:17.2	I mean, half of my high school experience was interrupted by COVID.
1:21.8	So I was really, really, really excited to come to college.
1:26.7	I'm a global studies major.
1:28.9	I was a minor in Arabic, and I just switched out because I want to continue to learn the language.
1:33.3	I was just really so stressed out being graded on it.
1:36.7	Yeah.
1:37.1	So I just switched into being a Spanish minor.
1:40.2	I'm also a theater minor, but I love the stuff I'm studying right now.
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