TRANSlating Everything

NEWLY REVISED: Charlie and the Conservative Factory

TRANSlating common arguments from Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and every other “centrist” with a blog on how to be anti-woke.

TRANSlating Everything is by Stephenie Magister and occasional guests.

In Amazon’s 9-part global thriller The Power, sustained and elevated estrogen causes people across the world to develop a new organ capable of producing and conducting electricity. 

Younger people can awaken the Power in older people. Soon enough, most women can do it. Sooner still, non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming people reveal they’ve got the Power, too. 

And with that comes a startling reversal in gender-based power dynamics — and the revelation that how the world responds may merely repeat the mistakes of the past.

TRANSlating Everything is by Stephenie Magister and occasional guests.

Previous recaps

Episode 1: written | podcast |

Episode 2: written | podcast | video

Episode 3: written | podcast | video

Episode 4: written | podcast | video

Episode 5: written | podcast | video

Episode 6: written

Bonus: Did John Leguizamo Just Spoil The Ending Of The Power?

After Judge Denies His Request For Mistrial, Trump Faces Three Women In Court Accusing Him Of Sexual Assault

This is also available as an article | video |

For previous political episodes, check out:

TRANSlating Last Week Tonight: Episode 1
The Consequences of Raising Your Kid as the Wrong Gender
Conservatives Are Cruel Because Cruelty Is Their Point
Science Proves (Again) That Watching Fox News Makes You Dumber Than Not Watching Any News At All

TRANSlating Everything is by Stephenie Magister and occasional guests.Show less

Justice for Aden is justice for all.

Welcome to TRANSlating Everything with another occasional news update. It’s Sunday, April 30, 2023, and I’m Stephenie Magister.

When medical needs force us to disclose our trans backgrounds, can we rely on doctors to act as allies?

When those doctors betray us, can we rely on the health industry itself to react with compassion for victims and consequence for perpetrators?

When that system instead empowers those doctors and silences their victims, can we at least turn to the public for help building a better way forward?

In today’s main story, a sexual assault survivor’s testimony alleges that the Michigan Medical Board’s lack of action continues to empower future sexual assaults by the same doctor treating patients with trans medical backgrounds.

What you permit, you promote. What you promote, you empower.

We need the resources to fight back.

And of course there’s often no better fire for championing trans rights than those privileged British dudes who speak in our favor. That’s why before we get to our main story, we need to talk about Jon Oliver’s coverage of trans people with his ongoing show Last Week Tonight.

Clips from Last Week Tonight (Warner Bros)
The Problem with Jon Stewart (AppleTV)
Aden Polydoros's TikTok

TRANSlating Everything is by Stephenie Magister and occasional guests.

It’s easy to point at right-wing parents who literally launch political campaigns based on denying their trans child the right to exist. Those people are bad in a way even other Republicans wouldn’t deny.

Well, most of them.

But despite the loudest voices from the right, most parents are decent people who support their children regardless of their gender or lack of gender. That’s in part why recent research into trans children ages 3–12 provided such clarifying insights on how to support our kids.

Today, we break down the biggest lie in progressive politics.

The Lie: "If only the other side knew the facts, they would understand. If only they saw our pain, they would stop."

Bull****.

Those are two lies, and they both mean the same thing: for some people, facts and feelings will never matter as much as obedience to conservative standards.

As far as ratings go, Fox News is #1.

Despite its clever branding claiming otherwise, Fox News Channel (FNC) is far and away the most popular mainstream cable news network. Since its inception in 1996, the channel has grown bigger, and bigger, and bigger.

But in 2012, a much-publicized study revealed a shocking crack in the Faux News facade.

NOTE: There were five-ish (2011, 2012, 2016, 2020, and a case study of the 2020 study)

“Examples of society-oriented knowledge included whether unemployment had gotten better or worse over the past year, whether Barack Obama was a Muslim, and whether the world’s temperature had been slowly increasing over the past 100 years.” — Consuming content from Fox News is associated with decreased knowledge of science and society

“I’ve spoken about this before, but if you watch Fox News, you perceive a different reality than if you read The New York Times. And those differences have been amplified by social media, which allows people to live in bubbles with other people who think like them.” -Barack Obama, “Fox News viewers ‘perceive a different reality’ than other Americans”

Other stuff you should read

• White Wing Talking Points Could Topple Trump As Soon As May 2023
• Barack Obama’s Favorite Book Of 2017 Is Now A Trans-Allied Sci-Fi TV Show
• It Finally Happened: They’re Killing Trans People Over Herb Grinders

TRANSlating Everything is by Stephenie Magister and occasional guests.

Kat Blaque has been creating content on YouTube since the birth of the platform in 2005. Talk about an early adopter with a First Mover Advantage. 

But as we’ve seen with anyone else who caught a trend and then faded into a cloud of obscure nostalgia, you don’t stick around unless you bring something extra.

Kat Blaque always brings more. Inspires her audience to reach for more. Helps us feel that even if we fall short, what we’ve done and who we are is already enough. What mattered was that we strived to be better for ourselves and for each other.

Join us as we profile the scope of Kat Blaque's career to date, what's next for them, and the Top Ten Most Viewed Videos Kat has made so far.

NOTE: well...I have a TBI (traumatic brain injury), so please excuse me in the top ten portion because I didn't realize until uploading that I reversed the numbers. That is why you will hear me celebrate Kat Blaque's least-viewed video with the same enthusiasm as though it were #1 :)

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A wise man once offered advice to the random white people who show up in his YouTube comments.

He said that many collaborations meant to celebrate a person instead require an unfair cost of labor from the subject of celebration. 

He said if you want to celebrate a person, then celebrate them.

Let the celebration begin.

Jessie Earl, also known as Jessie Gender, works in digital video as a producer and on-air talent. They have produced videos for Microsoft, America’s Funniest Home Videos, Skybound Entertainment, The Advocate, Pride.com, MuteSix, and many more.

Join us as we profile the scope of Jessie's career to date, what's next for them, and the Top Ten Most Viewed Videos Jessie has made so far.

ADDITIONAL LINKS INCLUDE

• Star Trek Explained (As Simply As Possible)
• A Complete (& Unhinged) Guide to Watching Star Trek
• Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Sexual Retrospective
• Star Trek (2009) Is a Masterpiece | RETROSPECTIVE (1 of 2)
• Star Trek's Autistic & Neurodiverse Representation
• Star Trek Picard's Queer Problem
• Star Trek Picard "The Last Generation" SERIES FINALE REVIEW

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SPOILERS NOTES: 
0:00 to 6:59=show spoilers up to episode 5
7:00-end=book spoilers

In a recent breakdown of his most iconic characters, John Alberto Leguizamo’s description for his most recent show The Power may have let the electric cat out of the bag for how the show will eventually end.

PLUS! We break down major major MAJOR spoilers for the ending of the book on which the show is based. Do you think the show will end the same way as the novel?

Do John's comments indicate how the show will actually end?

And are there any chess experts out there who can help us figure out what all of these chess references mean?!???

Book spoilers begin at 7 minutes into the episode.

Previous recaps

Episode 1: written | podcast |

Episode 2: written | podcast | video

Episode 3: written | podcast | video

Episode 4: written | podcast | video

Episode 5: written | podcast | video

Other stuff I read this week

• “Ironic Fiction Doesn’t Tell You Who Trans People Really Are” by Tucker Lieberman
• “Transphobia Since the 1970s” by Tucker Lieberman
• “Is Spoutible Fighting With Romance Writers and Fans?” by Anne Marble
• “Genre Grapevine Twitter Update (Including Info on Alternatives)” by Jason Sanford

You can support TRANSlating Everything by becoming a free or paid subscriber — or by just leaving a comment or review wherever you find us.