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| Molly Woodstock, host of Gender Reveal: | I do feel like that is realy important, because all the time we get questions from people who are having this really difficult inner monologue that I think so many trans people -- or questioning people -- experience but don't see it reflected outward, because we as trans people are expected to never show any sort of questioning or wavering of confidence in our identities -- because we have to fight so fucking hard to make them be seen and make them be respected -- that giving any sort of inch can feel like it's jeopardizing that. So I think that having that narrative out there is really, really powerful and really valuable, because it does feel-- Like, reading your list of top surgery feelings is the most relatable thing on top surgery. |
| Cyrus Dunham, author of A Year Without a name: | What you said is so important; it's like if you're constantly fighting to assert that you're real, and to have people believe your sense of who you are, it doesn't feel very safe to share doubt. And that's a really unfair bind that a lot of marginalized people end up in, obviously. I tend not to trust people who don't feel doubt -- doubt is a part of everything -- and we all deserve to be able to share our fear and our doubt, but there's not a lot of room for that when the world believes about gender what it does. |
-- from Gender Reveal, episode 62, 2020-01-27 ( Player.fm - Apple - Stitcher - see podcast website for Spotify, iHeartRadio, etc. links), 0:46:15 to 0:47:37