Sarah Keyworth: Are You a Boy or a Girl?

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BBC

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4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning comedian Sarah Keyworth returns with their Radio 4 series Are You a Boy or a Girl?. Since the first series aired in 2020, the debate around gender has exploded and taken on a life of its own, all culminating with one question ‘should I be allowed to decide who I am?’. Sarah has recently come out as non-binary (a subtle soft-launch in the Guardian newspaper) and is ready to share some more of their own brand of mx-information. That’s gender non-conforming information, the cool non-binary cousin of misinformation. In this first episode, Sarah talks us through how their gender is perceived throughout their daily life; from when they walk out the door, to being in a changing room, to getting a coffee; and we find out why they sometimes have to hum 'call me maybe' in a public toilet. Written by and starring Sarah Keyworth with additional material from Ruby Clyde. Producer: Georgia Keating Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Co-ordinator: Becky Carewe-Jeffries Sound Engineer: Paul Brodgen Editor: Joshan Chana Photo credit: Matt Crockett A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:18.0	Hello, I'm Sarah Kiwer.
0:19.7	Welcome to the second series of my show, Are You a Boy or a Girl.
0:23.4	It's been almost three years since the first series,
0:26.0	and yet I'm still being asked this question
0:28.0	multiple times, almost every day, in varying degrees
0:31.4	of panic and fear.
0:33.1	Though I will admit, I don't get Are You a Boy or a Girl
0:35.6	as much these days.
0:36.8	Instead, I get things like, why is that man in here?
0:39.6	And do you want me to call security?
0:42.7	I finished series one on a triumphant note,
0:45.8	feeling optimistic about my gender journey, my future,
0:48.8	and the future of all gender non-conforming people.
0:52.0	And I'm delighted to report back to you
0:53.9	that things are going great.
0:56.4	Transgender people have never been more accepted.
0:59.8	Non-binary has been welcomed as a legitimate gender identity,
1:03.0	and I can't actually think of one person
1:05.0	who's been opposed to gender reform.
1:07.2	Only kidding, things are terrible.
1:10.4	We are now the subject of a brutal and cruel debate.
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