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