Trans News You Haven't Heard with Transitics' Aleksandra Vaca
A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn
Gabe Dunn | A Bad With Money Podcast
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🗓️ 7 July 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Aleksandra Vaca of Transitics talks about being a 19-year-old independent trans journalist and three trans legislative stories that the mainstream media isn't covering well or at all.
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| 0:00.0 | You had told a lot of lies about achievement. |
| 0:03.3 | They called you when they got you to believe it. |
| 0:06.0 | Thumb and finger held to their foreheads in an L. |
| 0:08.2 | Shoeuv trapped in a capital of salescape. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's fight back in half. |
| 0:12.3 | And have some talks about class in the massive costs of the disasters brought to fascists and Nazis and Nazis and Nazis. |
| 0:17.5 | It's a thousand natural shocks, a bad with money podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | Hello and welcome to a thousand natural shocks, a bad with money podcast. I don't think we've ever had a more relevant situation and guest. Do you want to tell my audience who you are and what you do? |
| 0:33.3 | I'm Alexandra. I'm an independent journalist. I cover mainly trans-trans issues on my website, |
| 0:39.1 | transitix news.com. So that's just a portmanteau of politics and trans. It's honestly a bit |
| 0:45.9 | cringy and everyone mispronounces it. But at this point, I'm kind of married to it. I'm fine with it. |
| 0:51.2 | I am a religious reader of what you do. And so I just want, before we get into |
| 0:56.3 | why today is quite a day, I wanted to get background on you in terms of being an independent |
| 1:01.5 | journalist. Okay. So I think let's just start with this. I think to understand why I do what I do, |
| 1:08.0 | I think I need to explain a little bit more about who I am and how I ended up to be in the situation that I am. So I'm just going to ask you this question. How old do you think I am? No, this is a trick question for trans people. This is an absolute trick question because we look a lot younger than we are. Okay. How young do I look? 24. Younger. You're younger than that? Mm-hmm. |
| 1:28.4 | Wow. |
| 1:42.8 | I was because we always look so young. I didn't want to say you were in high school, but. Not quite. Not quite either. I'm 19. Okay. I didn't want to. Okay. I was going to be like, you're not, it was occurring to me in real time. You're not 17, are you? No, I'm not 17. |
| 1:43.9 | I'm not. |
| 1:44.8 | I'm 19. |
| 1:45.8 | We are different generations. |
| 1:47.2 | I'm also like I'm 19. We are different generations. I'm also new to being trans. So being like, oh, you're trans elder is like not true for me at all. Yeah, I don't think I'm a trans elder. I mean, I realized I was trans in 2022 for people from Texas because I've lived here basically my whole life. I don't go to school here |
| 2:02.0 | thankfully, but I do live here. And basically my whole life, I lived here. And then in 2022, |
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