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Alright, Tommy is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four.

We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out. We were shot through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.

Hello everybody and welcome to Saubones, a marital tour of Miscite Admedicine. I'm your co-host Justin McElroy.

I'm Sydney McElroy. And Sydney, it's a very special episode today. I'm very excited.

Me too.

So do you want to talk about what we're talking about and then I will introduce our very special guest?

Yes, sure. One topic that we have, we've wanted to cover for a while and then specifically after our episodes earlier this month where we discussed conversion therapy, we had even more listeners than we'd already have kind of write us emails and say, you know, something that you've never covered, something you've never talked about and that we had already wanted to talk about for a long time, was anything that had to do with transgender persons health issues, anything about.

Surgery or hormonal therapies or the history of that, we've never talked about any of it. And so it's something we've wanted to talk about for a long time and we're finally taking the opportunity to do so because we have a special guest.

Our special guest this week has been writing for basically every video game outlet that I like.

She is Laura Kate Dale and Laura, as you've almost certainly guessed from Sydney's introduction, we've brought you here to talk about you getting the scoop on Mario and rabbits months before it was announced.

We're all anxious to hear how you did it. I just wanted to bring you on to say nice.

Well, here's the secret to how I did it. I'm good friends with rabbit peach and we spent one slightly sorted night together and I walked away with a lot of very useful information.

And aside from leaking video games, Laura is also a transgender woman who we thought could offer some really valuable perspective.

We realized after we did our recent conversion therapy episode that there's a lot of topics that we would love to talk about that we don't necessarily have the context for, I guess.

Do our life experience? Sure, I mean, I think as a doctor, I can sometimes decode like medical talk and the technical end of things. I have that kind of expertise and I've become, I guess, like an amateur historian or researcher anyway.

I can do that stuff, but that's as far as I can take a topic.

And that's where I turn up. Exactly. Yeah, we're going to be pretty focused in this episode. This is a very broad topic with a lot of facets to it.

And we're going to be focusing for this episode just on the one surgical aspect. That's how broad this is.

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