Whether you're newly out, just exploring the community, or trying to do some research to be more supportive of a friend or family member who you found out is transitioning... there are a LOT of terms around being transgender (or any variation thereof) that can be hard to parse, and sometimes you just don't feel comfortable asking someone to do the emotional labor of explaining it to you!

That's what this two-part episode is for!!

That's not to say this video ISN'T for you if you're already an expert on queer terminology... because we're also going to explain the HISTORY of these words: where they came from, who coined them, why they're used, why there's pushback, and why they're important!!

In this episode, we're finishing up with the remaining 13 of the 27 terms Chloe researched, including: what's the difference between 'transgender, transsexual, transvestite, and drag,' and how did those terms slowly unfold into each other over the course of the last 150 years? In order to explain that, we have to talk about the difference between 'gender identity' and 'gender expression,' before we dive into a whole series of terms: gender-affirming surgery, hormone replacement therapy, puberty blockers, facial feminization/masculinization surgery, and gender dysphoria vs body dysmorphia.

Then we wrap the whole thing up with the most controversial word of them all: autogynephilia. No matter what you know about this word already, you're going to be surprised by the long (and insidious) history behind it.

Subscribe or come back in two weeks for a whole lot more!

00:00 Intro/Table of Contents
00:02:54 -gender vs -sexual vs -vestite vs DRAG
00:13:07 GAS
00:19:58 Gender Dysphoria
00:23:17 Puberty Blockers
00:25:33 HRT + FFS/FMS
00:28:11 Autogynephilia: Origins
00:42:14 AGP: "Evidence"
00:50:00 AGP: Counterevidence
00:55:14 "Birth-Order Effect"
01:00:37 Data Overwhelm
01:06:47 Hebe- Pedo- Ephebo-

For a list of ALL of the sources used for research on this episode, head to our YouTube and the links are all in the video description.

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