Tranos & the Lived Experience

American politicians don’t care about born kids until they’re trans. Then they want to do anything they can to stop them. Tranos runs down the ongoing political effort to criminalize the lives of young people who need the support of their communities. Dozens of bills have been introduced in state legislatures in 2021, and Kamryn and Andrew examine the personal and political history of how rhetorical children allow politicians to hurt actual marginalized children.

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In January, Rochester police beat up, detained and pepper sprayed a 9-year-old girl. Tranos watched the 90-minute-long cut together from the body cameras on the cops who terrorized this little girl and shares her reaction. Rochester, New York is her hometown, and she describes the history that Black Rochesterians have lived with since the 60s and contextualizes the brutality that continues to characterize the police in her city.

This episode contains descriptions of state violence and murder and may not be easy to listen to.

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Kamryn is back with her siblings Andrew and Tracy to discuss Cancel Culture. Tranos explains that cancel culture is real and as old as time. Anyone can cancel anybody else at any time, but that’s not the same as the consequences suffered by Morgan Wallen, Gina Carano or the white Twisted Tea guy. And she reveals her number one cancelation of all time.

If you’ve ever seen a trans person portrayed in mainstream media, sorry. Kamryn runs down the harmful tropes that represent the trans experience in media. She covers J.K. Rowling’s ongoing descent into bigotry, trans women portrayed as predators and the sexualization and dehumanization of trans bodies. Your Tranos also comes in with the hard evidence that, no matter what people say about their transphobia is for the children, our society only uses kids as fuel for their moral panic.

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Tranos predicts what will happen in her future of January 2021. Will ex-President Donald Trump get himself in jail? Are MAGA weirdos going to live out the consequences of their last four years or will they trick the world into thinking it was just a game that’s now over? Most importantly, will FOX News’s anchor line-up meet your host in the ring to pay for their crimes against humanity?

Content Warning: Explicit discussion of direct and systemic transphobic violence

In this episode, recorded in August after the attack of youtuber Eden the Doll, Kamryn talks with this week’s co-host Rob Sweet about her experiences with feeling trans since she was 4 years old and having to grow up with the intense societal pressure to be a man anyway. She details her youth in the foster system where she was criminalized for being queer, her experience being assaulted by a stranger in 2016 who learned she was trans and how society continues to foster the conditions that lead to trans women being attacked in public by strangers.

Welcome to the world of Kamryn Ehlen Jerrel. Tranos and the Lived Experience tackles white people who refuse to hold the L from the Civil War, casual transphobia and the selfish ignorance that jumps out of people in pandemic times.