Queersplaining

you start a new thing, you suck at the thing, you get frustrated and quit? i say "you" but i actually mean "I."

time for another in the somewhat regularly occurring series of ask callie episodes. lets goooooo

medical gatekeeping sucks. this week is a story about someone who was able to circumvent it, kinda

learn more about Cal here: http://calcates.com/

Read their letter here: https://www.calcates.com/post/when-the-boob-is-on-the-other-foot

And this is a cool site they write a bunch for: http://online.healwell.org/

It seems to be a sort of accepted thing...the most strident homophobes are closeted gays! the idea has never sat super well with me. so i found a super smart person to talk to us about why its a crap idea. we also spend some time talking more broadly about how our society does a terrible job of studying questions related to marginalized groups.

here's some folks doing good work with marginalized folks in research if you're interested!

Dr. Christian Chan

Dr. Adrienne Erby

Dr. Anneliese Singh

Florence Ashley

Netalie is a Muay Thai fighter and coach. Like a lot of things, being trans has made that more complicated than it should be.

come join the Queersplaining Discord: bit.ly/qsdiscord

its the end of 2020. i'm not quite sure what else to say about that, haha.

so much of being trans is needlessly complicated. and a lot of those complications simply don't have to exist.

to join the new Queersplaining Discord, check out bit.ly/qsdiscord

gimme a call to leave a voicemail (i think they're limited to 1 minute) - 859.308.6615

or shoot me an email callie [at] queersplaining [dot] com

For more about David Reimer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer

trans and non binary folks officially exist in the star trek universe now. you know i had to make an episode about it. just know i took great care to make it make sense to folks who aren't star trek fans. love yooooooouuuuu

we all come to the realization we're trans in different ways

well its officially "the holidays." and that means is a really weird time of year for a whole lot of us