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Music description. Thanks and happy listening. Hello, this is let's talk about myths, baby, and I am your host, Live, here with a very special re-air episode.

And I say that when, at this point, when I'm recording this introduction, I don't even actually know what episodes exactly I'm going to choose to put together into this re-air. But I can tell you the theme. The theme is trans people have always been here, that trans people are people in the

exact same way that cis people are people. And I mean, maybe that's not so much a theme as it is

an acknowledgement of the basic laws of humanity. But as I think all of us are aware, this is somehow

something that is more and more contentious every day.

And that is horrifying in a way that I just have so much trouble even like talking about.

I, you know, throughout the last six months, I guess, oh, fuck.

Throughout the last six months, you know, there has been so much

horrific shit coming out of the government in America and particularly when it comes to trans

issues, also the government in the UK. And I just like, I feel like, I mean, under normal circumstances,

this is stuff that I'd want to be addressing in episodes. But, you know, it's happening at such

speeds that it's almost impossible. And that's horrifying in itself, you know?

Like that's so scary.

And that's kind of the point, right?

Because if they overwhelm us with the horrors of trying to convince us that trans people aren't real?

I don't even know what it is because it's so lax in logic or the horrors of an active genocide happening in

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