You're going to be. Hello and welcome to Outward, Slate's podcast that legally speaking cannot give you medical advice.

I'm Jules Gill- and although I am this is true a doctor

it's a PhD so I also can't prescribe you anything fun either. Sorry. But I can serve you up a really fascinating and illuminating conversation today with freelance journalist so hene DeSai

who recently published a fantastic piece for Slate on the rise in private

telehealth providers who are offering gender affirming care. I bet you've heard

of a few of them before or maybe you know people who have used them.

Definitely kind of swirling around in the ether today, particularly as political attacks

and restrictions on gender-affirming care proliferate throughout the United States.

So it's a really great time to kind of take

stock of these companies and get into some of the bigger political questions about what it would take

to make transition more accessible. So we'll take a short break but when we come back I'll be sitting down to talk with journalist Soheni, this eye. Hey, it's Carver Wallace, host of Slates, how-to, and we just hit our five-year anniversary.

That's over 250 episodes of life-changing advice on every topic imaginable.

And so to celebrate my cohost, Courtney Martin and I recently talked

with the show's founder, Charles Doeigh. We had a guest on once. We were talking about talking

to your kids about sex.

And she said, you would never have one conversation

with your kids about table manners,

and then assume that their table manners

are going to be good for life, right?

Instead, you have like a thousand conversations with your kids about table manners.

Oh shit Charles now I'm I'm worried I haven't had enough table manners conversations.

Definitely talked about sex a lot but I don't know how much we've talked about.

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