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Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Sasha and Stella ask Scarlet, “What would you have needed when you started to experiment with this idea of being transgender?”
“Proper medical care would be nice”
Quality therapy is essential, advocating for nuanced discussions on gender and, especially during adolescence, body image issues. A supportive environment, exposure to positive role models, and awareness around online abuse, is crucial.
In this bonus episode for premium subscribers, Scarlet urges professionals to recognize that decisions regarding medical transition profoundly affect all aspects of life, emphasizing challenges with medical care, romantic relationships, and societal perceptions. He advocates for a holistic approach, underscoring the complexity of navigating diverse experiences with gender identity, warning against hasty medical decisions. Rather than just focusing on ‘gender’, address the physical, mental, emotional, and social aspects of a person's well-being recognizing the interconnectedness of various factors that contribute to a person's health, considering them all in diagnosis, treatment, and support.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Gender A Wider Lens exclusive content. If you're a free listener, what you're about to hear is a preview of a bonus episode for our paid sub-stack subscribers. |
| 0:11.0 | If you'd like to hear the rest, go to widerlands pod.com and sign up for any of our paid membership |
| 0:16.8 | options. |
| 0:17.8 | And to all of our premium and founding member subscribers, thank you for the support. And here's the bonus conversation. |
| 0:24.0 | So we're back with Scarlet and Stella had a great idea during our full episode. |
| 0:31.0 | We'd like to ask you what would you have needed when you were 12 and 13 and |
| 0:38.9 | starting to kind of experiment with this idea of transgender, you know, being |
| 0:45.0 | I think I just needed like therapy for body image issues. |
| 0:50.7 | I feel like I had like, what do you call it? Like, I know like they have like gender |
| 0:57.6 | dysphoria and there's like body dysmorphia. Yeah and I feel like that was a big struggle of mine, and I needed more help in regards to that. |
| 1:07.0 | And I feel like it would have helped me a lot to introduce me into like some older gay people for me to just kind of see that like that's like a normal thing and I shouldn't feel so |
| 1:19.5 | wrong and so like repulsive for being the way I was because that just it just led me to |
| 1:28.0 | withdrawal so much as a kid and I just needed like some positive role models in my |
| 1:32.4 | life that wasn't just like you know my mom |
| 1:34.9 | constantly battling against the world for me you know what I mean because she really was my |
| 1:39.7 | hero growing up but it's kind of hard when you just have like your parent is just focused on keeping the world's prejudice at bay. |
| 1:50.0 | It makes it hard for them to be there for you in all the ways that you really could have used. |
| 1:55.7 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:57.7 | I wonder would you have benefited as well to have some knowledge around, you know, the online abuse I think might have brought in, you know, the homophobia anyway, but then also the homophobia that was everywhere as well as the online kind of predatory |
| 2:15.9 | behavior cop no wonder you felt taking no wonder you know yeah yeah |
| 2:21.6 | because there were some very unsavory individuals that at the time I was like, oh, they're my online friends. |
| 2:29.3 | You know, we play World of Warcraft together, so it's fine. |
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