This is a headgum podcast. I don't know what to think I don't know what to say

and that's all right that's okay

I don't know anything Okay. You know, there's an alarming backlash against trans rights and, frankly, the existence of trans people

at all in America today.

Turns out bathroom laws were only the beginning.

Now there are laws banning gender affirming care for kids, requiring trans students to be

misgendered, and even laws against drag shows in many places across this country.

On top of that, there's a cottage of dumb-ass articles stoking the flames of the anti-trans freak out.

And I think some of it comes from this perception that suddenly trans people are everywhere,

that this is something new in our society.

And I understand that to a certain extent.

You know, ten years ago, I had maybe met one or two trans people ever in my life and now I have countless

non-binary and trans friends who are living openly and who are thriving and this is

true across the country the number of young people who identify as

transgender has doubled in recent years and today 5% of people younger than 30 are

trans. That is huge that so many people are out now. It is a

generational shift. But the idea that being trans or gender non-conforming

itself is something new that was just invented recently is false.

See, we've been taught that the gender binary is natural,

so we have this false idea that human culture and history has been based around that strict binary

forever. But that is not the case at all. In so many places and times throughout history,

humans have expressed gender concepts outside that binary.

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