GETTING CURIOUS | How Can We Put The “I” In LGBTQIA+? with Alicia Roth Weigel

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever met a redhead? Someone with green eyes? Someone with intersex traits? If you answered yes to the first two questions, you can likely answer yes to the third: being intersex is as common as having red hair or green eyes. And that’s almost definitely an undercount. This week, Alicia Roth Weigel lays out what it means to have intersex traits, why so many intersex children face medical abuse, and what justice looks like for intersex people. Alicia Roth Weigel is a Forbes and New York Times published change agent, working to improve the political and social landscape for marginalized populations in the South through her consulting firm Intrepida Strategy. As a Human Rights Commissioner for the City of Austin, she has contributed to legislation to reduce sexual assault and human trafficking, mandate paid sick leave and abortion funding, decriminalize and alleviate homelessness, and target other social determinants of health. Most notably, Alicia continually advocates for the rights of intersex people like her, for which she was awarded the Ceci Gratias Guardian Award by the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce in 2019. Alicia is committed to fostering body autonomy and culturally competent healthcare for all. Make sure to follow Alicia on Instagram and Twitter @xoxy_alicia. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by Alicia Weigel, where I ask her, how can we put the eye and LGBTQIA?
0:20.0	Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Binesse. I'm so excited to welcome our guest this week.
0:25.0	Her name is Alicia Weigel. She is a Texas-based policy strategist and advocate for the
0:30.5	rights of children born with intersex traits and is also the human rights
0:34.5	commissioner for the city of Austin. I'm obsessed with that title. I'm obsessed with
0:40.4	you Alicia. I have to give our listeners a little bit of a background so I was lucky enough to me
0:45.8	Alicia at the launch of JBN hair in Austin we were talking
0:49.6	Alicia came up and introduced herself and we had an amazing time connecting and getting to know each
0:56.8	other and in that time you shared with me that you are an intersex advocate and that you are someone who is intersex and you also
1:06.7	use she they pronouns which we were actually just talking about right before we
1:10.3	started this but I'm just, was and I'm so blown away by you.
1:17.2	I loved your transparency, your openness, your heart, your energy was so clearly just brilliant and beautiful and I mean just
1:27.2	meeting you in two seconds I was just like wow this person's incredible and so I'm
1:30.9	just so honored that you took your time to come on here and to talk to us and to share your story and so yeah, welcome how are you?
1:40.0	Thank you. I'm great. I'm so excited to be here and guess who washed her hair with JVM today?
1:46.0	You're, I was going to say, but I try to like focus on policy first sometimes it since you brought it up.
1:51.0	Your hair looks amazing. Which one did you use? I'm sorry.
1:55.2	I'm smelling that squaleen. Squaleen squaleen squaleen.
1:58.1	And that hemisqualeen honey is a gorgeous thing. It smells so good. Which one did you use? The
2:04.8	Embodier, the deep conditioning mask. Yes, you better give me the nurture
2:09.1	mask. Okay, Alicia, we are pivoting from hair care. Our overall question for today is,
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