The Gender Rebels Podcast

The Gender Rebels Podcast

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  • Rebels in Ireland Part 1

    A LOT has happened since we lst talked, and the wedding isn't even the half of it!!

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    Faith's book, American Transgirl, available now!

    Music by one of our favorite bands, the super cool, all-female punk band Jasper the Colossal. Download their new album "Take Your Time" and all their tracks on iTunes. 

    35 min
  • Our "Will & Harper" review, Part II
    We review Netflix's Will & Harper. Overall we think it's really really good and can help educate people who might need it.
     
    Faith says she can't get U.S. State Department Security Clearance because she's too weird.  We agreed Mike "I'm a weird guy" Warnke is also probably ineligible. But Weird Al is pretty wholesome; I bet he could get it.   Could you get clearance?
     

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    Faith's book, American Transgirl, available now!

    Music by one of our favorite bands, the super cool, all-female punk band Jasper the Colossal. Download their new album "Take Your Time" and all their tracks on iTunes. 

    42 min
  • "Will & Harper" : The Gender Rebels Review

    We review Netflix's Will & Harper. Overall we think it's really really good and can help educate people who might need it.
     
    Faith says she can't get U.S. State Department Security Clearance because she's too weird.  We agreed Mike "I'm a weird guy" Warnke is also probably ineligible. But Weird Al is pretty wholesome; I bet he could get it.   Could you get clearance?
     

    Like us on  FaceBook so we can haunt your feed. 

    Faith's book, American Transgirl, available now!

    Music by one of our favorite bands, the super cool, all-female punk band Jasper the Colossal. Download their new album "Take Your Time" and all their tracks on iTunes. 

    38 min
  • Trans Surgeries for Prisoners

    We're in the news again, yay. First, the stats:

    The US held 21.0% of the world's prisoners in 2015, even though the US represented only around 4.4 percent of the world's population in 2015. The Wikipedia site "Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other countries" has additional sobering stats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_incarceration_rate_with_other_countries#:~:text=The%202021%20US%20incarceration%20rate,in%20adult%20facilities%20in%202015.
     
     
    Highlights of Kamala's fox interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbNxiLaY6I0
     
    Alford plea (not "Alfred" plea): https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/alford_plea
    An Alford plea, also known as a "best-interests plea," registers a formal admission of guilt towards charges in criminal court while the defendant simultaneously expresses their innocence toward those same charges.(It) skips the full process of a criminal trial because the defendant agrees to accept all the ramifications of a guilty verdict (i.e. punishment).
     
    Prisoners were left to their own devices during Hurricanes Milton, Florence, and Katrina:
    https://www.ncja.org/crimeandjusticenews/some-florida-jails-and-prisons-evacuated-ahead-of-milton-but-many-incarcerated-remained-in-storm-s
     
    The number of inmates requesting gender affirming surgery every year is miniscule, according to Bureau of Prisons. There have been only two known surgeries approved via court action. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/us/politics/trump-prisons-transgender-care-harris.html
     
    Trans folx are more likely to be a victim of a crime: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-trans-press-release/
     
    Let's step outside of prison for a minute. The #1 most common gender affirming surgery in minors? Researchers found roughly 150 cases in which a minor received gender-affirming surgery in 2019. But of those cases, 146 — about 97% — were chest reduction surgeries performed on cisgender male youth, constituting gender-affirming care for conditions like gynecomastia (which can develop nearly half the time among those undergoing testosterone-dominant puberty).
    https://www.them.us/story/gender-affirming-surgery-vast-majority-cis-kids-study
    30 min
  • She's the Man

    Faith and Kath are surprised that they liked this movie so much.  Remember Amanda Bynes? She's so funny and we at TGR Headquarters wish her well. The movie is helped by surprisingly funny Channing Tatum in his first movie role and a bonkers story by Billy Shakespeare.  Apparently pretending to be the opposite sex is stressful and Bynes said she struggled with depression for months after seeing herself onscreen.  Sounds like gender dysphoria is hard even in small doses.

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    Faith's book, American Transgirl, available now!

    Music by one of our favorite bands, the super cool, all-female punk band Jasper the Colossal. Download their new album "Take Your Time" and all their tracks on iTunes. 

    1 hr 24 min
  • Some Like It Trans

    Today we watched director Billy Wilder's 1959 hit Some Like It Hot, winner of 11 Academy Awards. Our feelings are... complicated. But for a movie with cross-dressing, produced in compliance with the Hays Code's absurd limitations, it is actually pretty cool.   

     

    Marilyn Monroe's character gave off "Born Sexy Yesterday" vibes. Pop Culture Detective coined the phrase for characters like The Fifth Element's Leeloo; learn more here!

    In 2023, J. Harrison Ghee won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical  for their performance in the Broadway musical, the second out nonbinary actor to win the award.  (Mere MINUTES after Alex Newell, the first out nonbinary Tony winner. So close!)
     
    I know what you're thinking-- Best Actor? Nonbinary person?  Well, there is a larger conversation happening about gendered award categories for major performance awards. Maybe we'll see some changes in the future.
     

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    Faith's book, American Transgirl, available now!

    Music by one of our favorite bands, the super cool, all-female punk band Jasper the Colossal. Download their new album "Take Your Time" and all their tracks on iTunes. 

    49 min
  • I Saw the TV Glow: The Rebels Go To the Movies

    Yesterday we went to I Saw The TV Glow followed by a Q&A with writer/ director Jane Schoenbrun.  Brigette Lundy-Paine and Justice Smith star in a coming-of-age story where two junior high outsiders find each other and bond over a creepy Buffy The Vampire Slayer-like TV show.  The show gets darker and the protagonists' ties to reality start to loosen. 

    We've loved Brigette Lundy-Paine ever since Atypical and see all their work-- even Amelia's Children, yikes.) Unlike Amelia's Children, I Saw The TV Glow was excellent: dark and strange and sad, with an amazing soundtrack. We highly recommend it!  

     

    Topics of conversation covered:

    Buffy creator Joss Whedon is a terrible person 

    The Cocteau Twins has an album The Pink Opaque  
    Our episode on Bringing people into the closet with you  
    Faith like the band Velocity Girl
    Faith's blog is still up! 

     

    Like us on  FaceBook so we can haunt your feed. 

    Faith's book, American Transgirl, available now!

    Music by one of our favorite bands, the super cool, all-female punk band Jasper the Colossal. Download their new album "Take Your Time" and all their tracks on iTunes. 

     

    28 min
  • You Can Get SRS and Still Be a Good Leftist

    This week we saw a reddit post that asked "Would I be a bad leftist if I get SRS?" It started with "my ex told me that girls who get SRS are an obstacle for trans liberation." Wow. We knew Faith needed to weigh in.

     

    Caution: we make pretend sex noises throughout this ep. Try to not get too turned on, thanks.

     

    Gaslighting means "manipulating someone into questioning their own perception of reality".

     

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    24 min
  • Movement for Transwomen

    Listener Claire asks a great question about how to move in a more feminine way. We can't all be ballerinas or elegant gliding angles on ice like the truck drivers of Manitoba, but we can all take some yoga or barre, work on our posture, get video to track our progress, and attempt to emulate the Playboy bunny walk. But ultimately, it all comes down to practice.

     

    Barre class and how to pronounce it. (It's just "bar", y'all.)

    Frances Ha starring (probable possible likely Academy Award winning director of "Barbie") Greta Gerwig where the character Frances has a "weird man walk".
    Fashion Week staffers work for free.
    What's Guelph?
    Faith loves her chirp wheel because her shoulders and neck get super tight from sitting at her desk.
     

    Support us on Patreon to help us keep making great content, and to get some cool rewards!

    Check out our website for our latest episodes!  

    Follow us on twitter for all our shower thoughts and other musings @TheGenderRebels 

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    39 min
  • Fight Your Health Insurance to Get Your FFS Covered

     

    Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is not covered by some health plans. If your health insurance company says they won't pay for a surgery you need, you can appeal that decision. Listener Robin asks for tips from Faith, who succeeded with her appeal on her third try.

     

    Our other FFS episodes:
    Faith F's her F Part I
    Faith F's her F Part II

    Faith vs Her Health Insurance

     
    "Insemination style genitalia" and "gestational genitalia" are terms that Faith thought up in her weird brain and we do NOT recommend googling them. Kath thinks AFAB and AMAB are adequate.
     
    Faith learned about appealing decisions from your health insurance at the Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference. There was no 2023 conference but there will be one in 2024 and we will see you there! 
     
    Legal aid societies that can help you with your appeal, for each state.
     
    Faith said people with gestational genitalia (aka AFAB people or people who were assigned female at birth) "retain neoteny". Neoteny refers to child-like facial characteristics. These “neotenous” characteristics include a large forehead with lower set eyes, nose and mouth; a smaller, shorter, more recessive chin; fuller lips; larger eyes; a smaller nose; higher, thinner eyebrows; and a rounder, less angular face. This can be (but is not always) associated with attractiveness, to some people.
     
    Our old video of conventionally attractive people whose facial features are androgynous or even skew toward those of the opposite gender included the jerk Ezra Miller. Join us in cancelling that creep. 
     
    Faith's surgeon, Bella Avanessian, MD at Mt Sinai, also has Jazz Jennings as a patient. See Dr. A. in this video as a baby doctor, just starting her surgical fellowship.
     
    Legal Eagle YouTuber has an episode about arbitrators and also "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia".
     
    Former New York State governor Mario Cuomo groped staff members and helped the LGBTQ+ community a lot. Those are two uncomfortable truths we have to live with.
    32 min

About The Gender Rebels Podcast

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A weekly question-and-answer podcast that explores life outside the gender binary. We discuss transgender, nonbinary, asexual, queer, and even lesbian & gay topics!

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