For pride month, the girlies mount a defense against one of the largest threats to queer people today: transphobia. They trace the long history of trans existence and its erasure, unpack how moral panic is used to justify control, why transphobia exists on both the right and the left, and how the freedom to live outside the binary can liberate us from other systems of oppression. Digressions include: the highs and lows of plant parenthood, our no-phone summer so far, and a new candy shaking up the scene.
This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza McLamb and edited by Livi Burdette. Research assistance from Kylie Finnigan.
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RESOURCES:
https://transharmreduction.org/
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
https://translifeline.org/
https://transequality.org/
https://transgenderlawcenter.org
https://pflag.org/get-support/
https://transreads.org/
https://www.elevatedaccess.org/
https://www.pointofpride.org/resource-library
SOURCES:
2025 anti-trans bills tracker
A History of Transphobia in the Medical Establishment
A Lost Piece of Trans History
A systematic review of TERF behaviour online in relation to sociopsychological group dynamics
Advancing Transgender Justice: Illuminating Trans Lives Behind and Beyond Bars
Anti-trans legislation has never been about protecting children’
Anti-Trans Moral Panics Endanger All Young People
Better mental health found among transgender people who started hormones as teens
Beyond Gender: Indigenous Perspectives, Muxe
Beyond moral panic: how governments are ignoring centuries of trans history
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
Clayman Conversations: Three scholars examine the TERF Industrial Complex
Fact Sheet: Transgender Participation in Sports
Gender Identity in Weimar Germany
Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy and Depressive Symptoms Among Transgender Adults
Impact of Ban on Gender-Affirming Care on Transgender Minors
India’s Relationship with the Third Gender
Introduction: TERFs, Gender-Critical Movements, and Postfascist Feminisms
Mental health benefits associated with gender-affirming surgery
Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care
Marxism, moral panic and the war on trans people
“Moving Towards the Ugly”
My Words to Victor Frankenstein by Susan Stryker
Online Anti-LGBTQ Hate Terms Defined: “Transvestigation”
On Liking Women by Andrea Long-Chu
Othering, peaking, populism and moral panics: The reactionary strategies of organised transphobia
Responses to Janice G. Raymond's The Transsexual Empire
The “Empire” Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto
The Epidemic of Violence Against the Transgender & Gender-Expansive Community in the U.S.
The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic How historians are documenting the lives of transgender people
The History of Two-Spirit Folks
The Institute of Sexology and the Erasure of Transgender History
The semi-sacred ‘third gender’ of South Asia
The Supreme Court’s incoherent new attack on trans rights, explained
Theorist Susan Stryker on One of Her Most Groundbreaking Essays, 25 Years Later
The rise of anti-trans “radical” feminists, explained
To protect gender-affirming care, we must learn from trans history
Transgender History by Susan Stryker
Transgender Lives in the Middle Ages through Art, Literature, and Medicine
TV and films have long taught audiences transphobia
What science tells us about transgender athletes
Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law - More than 40% of transgender adults in the US have attempted suicide
Woman says she was brutally attacked in Carpentersville, Illinois because she's a lesbian
