Mal Goes Undercover: Testing Which Banks Are Trans-Inclusive

Bad With Money With Gabe Dunn

Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions

Business, Careers, Investing, Education

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this incredible and vulnerable coming out-inspired episode, co-host Mal Blum contacts banks to test which ones allow trans people to change their names on their accounts without paperwork. They ask about: changing deadnames on accounts to shortened versions, opening new accounts under chosen names, and which banks allow you to alter your name on your checks or credit cards. They encounter well-meaning reps, repetitions of their deadname, and roadblocks that make no goddamn sense. And happy GLAAD Spirit Day! (That's today! According to their website: "This day aims to create awareness for the bullying and harassment that the LGBTQ community faces.") Thank you to Mal for doing all this work and putting themselves on the line for the good of every queer listener! Banks in this episode: Chase Bank TD Bank Wells Fargo CitiBank (corporate vs. local branch) Links: https://www.glaad.org/spiritday Gaby Dunn Instagram: @GabyRoad Mal Blum is @malblum anywhere you want to find them BWM Instagram: @bwmpod BWM Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/badwithmoneyfb The BWM Discord channel: https://discord.gg/dAdxj4JMER Find Gaby on Patreon: patreon.com/gabydunn Shop gabydunn.com/shop for merch! Bad with Money is produced, edited, sound engineered and mixed by Cumulus Podcast Network. The theme song was performed by Sam Barbara and written by Myq Kaplan, Zach Sherwin, and Jack Dolgen. Additional music by Joey Salvia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You got problems that you oughta be concerned with, who are you?
0:04.0	You don't know how you're supposed to earn it or what to do with it or how to keep it
0:08.0	You're a freak with a dark shankful secret, but you're not the only one
0:13.0	Teach your hidden financial fears with a blessed son
0:16.0	Now your healing has begun, it's back with money with Gabby
0:21.0	Done!
0:22.0	Hello and welcome to Bad With Money, a show about finances and feelings
0:26.0	where we don't talk down to you. I'm Gabby Dunn
0:29.0	I'm joined by my co-host Mal Blum this week and we are so excited because Mal was out in the field doing stuff
0:38.0	The first episode of Mal in the field
0:41.0	Well you did play games, but this is you out in the field
0:44.0	Yeah, games are in the house
0:47.0	Right
0:48.0	And so you went out, can you tell the audience what you did?
0:51.0	So I talked to a bunch of banks
0:54.0	I outed myself as trans to a bunch of banks and asked them if I could either change an existing account or open a new account in a shortened version of a legal dead name or just like a different version of somebody's legal name without like legal name changed paperwork
1:14.0	Is there a less boring way to say that?
1:16.0	No, basically we went and tried to find out how trans friendly a bunch of banks are
1:21.0	Yeah, there you go
1:24.0	So what inspired this topic?
1:27.0	Personally, I mean like I don't personally think there's any reason that you shouldn't be allowed to put your name, your preferred name on an account
1:38.0	I just like...
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