Ian Alexander: Is Coming For Your Gender Norms

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ian Alexander talks about finding trans community online, embracing both his masculine and feminine sides, and why his experience of gender is still evolving. Ian is in The OA, a Netflix show whose new season is out now. We're excited to announce that LGBTQ&A is moving to Luminary, a brand new podcast platform. We'll be joining show creators like Malcolm Gladwell, Guy Raz, Lena Dunham, and John Cameron Mitchell to create exclusive content. Plus a new show produced by Jeffrey Masters and The Advocate and hosted by Editor-in-Chief, Zach Stafford! Click here to learn more. Never miss an update! Sign up for our (short!) newsletter at www.LGBTQpodcast.com Join GLAAD's growing movement to amend the U.S. Constitution to provide explicit protections for women, LGBTQ people, communities of color, and those with disabilities. #EqualityAmendment LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and is part of The Advocate Magazine.

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0:00.0	Never done the podcast before.
0:01.0	Oh, you haven't?
0:02.0	This is so exciting.
0:03.0	Oh my God, great.
0:04.0	Hey, welcome back.
0:07.0	I'm Jeffrey Masters and this is LGBTQNA from The Advocate.
0:12.0	Today we're talking to Ian Alexander.
0:15.0	Ian is an actor in the Netflix show The OA, and I really love this conversation for a number of reasons, but one of them
0:22.6	is that Ian is 17 years old, and he talks about learning about being queer and trans online.
0:30.1	He found info online as well as a community of people there going through the exact same
0:35.6	things he was, and to me, that is such a fascinating change
0:39.5	in the LGBTQ experience. And yet, it's entirely common in young people today. So we talk
0:46.2	all about that. And then just a heads up next week, we're going to continue the conversation
0:50.8	talking about LGBTQ people online. This time with someone on the other side of things, a YouTube creator.
0:57.9	So that's going to be Gigi Gorgeous, who is one of the most famous and funniest
1:02.4	YouTubers in the world.
1:04.1	Stay tuned for that.
1:04.9	That's next week.
1:06.2	All right, let's get to it.
1:07.1	Without further ado, here's Ian.
1:18.3	Thank you. to it. Without further ado, here's Ian. I think you are our youngest guest ever. So at any point I sound patronizing, just reach across
1:23.9	and slap me really hard. You're like, ageism. Come on. But I want to start with YouTube, if that's okay, because you first began to find info about
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