Trans Children w/ Jules Gill-Peterson

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Featuring Jules Gill-Peterson on Histories of the Transgender Child. Amid this right-wing reaction, a discussion of the history of trans medicine and trans children—and also trans politics more generally. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Register for Socialism 2023 at socialismconference.org. Register before July 7 for the early bird discount rate! Subscribe to n+1 at nplusonemag.com/thedig. Enter THEDIG at checkout.

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1:34.0	Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting
1:40.3	from Providence, Rhode Island. The anti-trans politics currently fueling right-wing reaction
1:46.7	is fundamentally centered upon the figure of the trans child. It is a classic American child
1:53.6	safety panic that warns parents against a perverted woke culture that just might turn their normal
1:59.4	boy into a girl or vice versa. The entire conflict, however, is premised on the conventional wisdom
2:07.0	that trans children are something new. In fact, they are not. My interview today is with
2:13.4	Jewel's Gil Peterson, the author of the remarkable book, Histories of the Transgender Child.
2:19.3	This is a really insightful episode about the history of trans medicine, trans children,
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