Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - The Trans Past, Present, and Future

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🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Bryan, Christina, and Jules respond to the anti-trans attacks coming out of state legislatures across the country, particularly in Texas, where the governor and attorney general have tried to make caring for trans kids into a form of child abuse. Jules sketches out what a trans child’s life would look and feel like over the coming years as a result of these draconian bills and administrative attacks. Then they are joined by Michael Waters to discuss his recent piece for Slate about trans pioneer Barbara Ann Richards, who went to court in 1941 to legally change her name—and succeeded. Items discussed in the show: Lauren Groff discusses the writing of her novel Matrix on the podcast Women Who Travel “The GOP’s All-Out Assault on Trans People,” The Waves, March 3, 2022, featuring Jules Gill-Peterson and Evan Urquhart “Barbara Ann Richards Designed—and Then Demanded—the Life She Deserved,” by Michael Waters True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by Emily Skidmore Gay Agenda Christina: Start your own Dyke Night! Bryan: QueerSpace, a podcast from the National Air and Space Museum Jules: The 2022 Lambda Literary Award nominations This podcast was produced by Myron. Please send feedback, topic ideas, and advice questions to outwardpodcast@slate.com. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Outward. I'm Christina Cauterucci, a senior writer at Sleep, and I want
0:18.0	to tell you guys about an app that I recently learned about. As you know, humans are almost
0:22.7	all deficient in D. That's Vitamin D. There's an app out there called D-Minder that tells
0:29.6	you when you can go out and get some D. Like when the sun is out and when it's an optimal
0:33.9	like D procuring time. So it'll tell you, you know, you have three more hours today to get your D.
0:39.3	The next time D is available is in 12 hours. So I just think our listeners are really the prime
0:46.5	target for an app like this that tells them exactly when D is available. So, you know, PSA,
0:52.2	that's how you know when you can get your D. That sounds extremely helpful, Christina. Thank you.
0:58.3	You're welcome. I'm Brian Louder, Editor of Outward, and I just have a very quick, very
1:03.1	fruity take for this season of Osterra that we are entering. Starburst brand Jelly Beans, in my
1:10.5	opinion, are both the ideal form of Starburst in terms of texture and Jelly Beans in terms of flavor.
1:18.3	So all the other versions are here by Canceled. I made your life simpler. You're welcome.
1:23.2	What's wrong with the classic Starburst texture? It's too chewy and it gets in your teeth and
1:28.0	hurts. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, that's that's that. And I'm Jules Gil Peters then reminding all
1:34.0	the state legislators and governors out there don't mess with trans kids. Okay. You tell them.
1:42.0	Maybe eat a starburst. Maybe take a little vitamin D. All right. This month we're bringing you two
1:48.2	very different stories about the kinds of lives we're able to live. First, we're processing
1:54.0	developments out of Texas where the state has moved aggressively to declare caring for trans kids
2:00.6	child abuse. But the wider assault on trans kids is escalating in serious ways all over the US.
2:08.2	And while a lot of vital coverage is focused on the legal arguments and the policies involved,
2:13.4	we want to ask what a trans kids life would actually look and feel like over the coming years as
2:19.3	a result of these traconian laws and administrative attacks. What kind of life span are trans people
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