Premium: Where did all of this come from? How did it come up? (Listener Q+A)
Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 1 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
A parent writes in seeking helping with figuring out where their son’s gender confusion originated. Sasha and Stella dig into the reality that often there is not “one big reason” or a single “smoking gun.”
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hi. Hello, Sasha. Will I go straight into another question? Please do, yes. So our 21-year-old |
| 0:10.4 | son told us about his gender dysphoria and desire to transition just before his |
| 0:14.4 | eighteenth birthday and we were spare the horror so many parents of minors deal with but it still |
| 0:19.7 | ripped our family apart. As of now we still see him as lost. My wife and I still wonder precisely what |
| 0:26.4 | happened in his teenage years. I realise it's in the past but we were really talking, we were |
| 0:31.2 | recently talking with people who mentioned it might have come from video games as well as other online sources we had no idea he was always a typical boy with video games shooter games with other boys playing as a group. |
| 0:44.7 | Again, it is too late for us to stop any of this, but we still wonder who got to him and how. |
| 0:52.0 | I know you unearth many of the stories from detransitiners and imagine other parents also wonder about the specifics of how this all came up. |
| 1:00.0 | Oh, yeah. You know, I think, you know know we can over think it we can over attribute you know yeah you can |
| 1:07.1 | certainly the video games yeah there's an issue and anime and even dark we know all that I do think it's in the water since the zeitgeist I do think you know you know why did |
| 1:17.8 | Teenagers take acid in the 60s? Yeah you can't really say it because of their childhood. |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.