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August 31, 2023

31 August 2023 - Being Blonde, Female, and Depressed

19 minutes

On the program today:
- Why I missed the Dingbat Diaries video for last week
- A response to an article that explained my absence last week in which I was called female
- Do I really buy into the rhetoric that genetics is gender?

REFERENCES:
Gender Identity Today: https://genderidentitytoday.com
Series of articles I wrote:
"All Except for My Parts": https://genderidentitytoday.com/all-except-for-my-parts/
"To Bear Responsibility is Transgender": https://genderidentitytoday.com/to-bear-responsibility-is-transgender/
"Writing My Transgender Life": https://genderidentitytoday.com/writing-my-transgender-life/
Transgender suicide statistics: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/suicidality-transgender-adults/

(00:00) - Agenda

(00:41) - Introduction

(01:34) - What Happened Last Week?

(04:52) - Dealing with My Genetics

(06:52) - Being Blonde in 1980s SoCal

(08:50) - The Genetics of Being Interblonde

(09:46) - Should We Regulate Non-Blondes Who Identity as Blonde?

(10:36) - The Abstraction of Sex

(12:20) - The Concept of Gender

(14:24) - Modern Technology and Gender

(15:17) - I Own that I Am a Woman

(16:10) - Does Genetics Define Gender?

(16:24) - Finding My Purpose Again

(18:42) - Show Closing

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By Amethysta Herrick