Episode 79: Mauree Turner

Tuck speaks with Oklahoma representative Mauree Turner (they/she), the first openly nonbinary state legislator in the United States.  Topics include: Reimagining the justice system in the incarceration capital of the world. Working in spaces that weren’t built to accommodate your existence.  The pros and cons of representing so many different identities while your white cis coworkers get to just, like, chill.  Dress codes.... they're bad!  Plus: Which Steven Universe character is Mauree?  This Week in Gender: Send Christmas gifts to trans youth via @TranSanta. Find Mauree on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok (@MaureeTurnerOK) and hear them chat with Imara Jones on the TransLash Podcast. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram (@gendereveal). Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s message was from Calcifer Somerset. Browse our limited-edition merch collection at bit.ly/gendermerch. (Hurry, everything leaves the store on 12/31.) Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2. Do you have gender questions that you’d like answered on the show? Submit questions anonymously via this Google form. Special thanks this week to Oliver-Ash Kleine and Callie Wright Producer: Isaura Aceves Logo: Ira M. Leigh Music: Breakmaster Cylinder Additional Music: “Glass Runner” by Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!