The Pressure to Medically Transition

This week, El and Josie discuss both the pressures and barriers
gender expansive folx face to access medical transition steps,
and how both of those things can be harmful to gender expansive
folx.


CW: dysphoria mention, suicide mention, surgery discussion


In the episode we mentioned three "queer history" books that El
has been reading recently:


Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov
 (and many others) - a series of small memoirs of older
nonbinary folx

The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian
Faderman - a historic account of the gay movement from the 50s
through the Obama administration

Transgender History by Susan Stryker -  a surprisingly
positive telling of the trans rights movements from antiquity
through the Trump administration



In addition, here are a few more gender-related queer history
books El has read recently! 


Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial
Complex - a series of essays depicting the interesectional
oppression trans folx, and especially BIPOC trans folx,
experience in the prison industrial complex 

Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of
Visibility - a series of essays discussing trans representation
in art and the effect (or lack of effect) that has on trans
rights

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and
Science Tamed AIDS - a historic account of the AIDs epidemic and
how it intersected with the gay revolution

The Stonewall Reader - a series of essays by the folx who
were there that fateful night & weekend at Stonewall



Music for Gender Journeys Composed by Sonia Bourdaghs


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