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Are Advice Columns Intrinsically Queer?

Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast

CHAPTER

The Importance of Self-Pity

I want to talk about one letter you include in the book, which is from a reader who identified as a recreational cross dresser and expressed a desire to transition. She said she thought trans women should be barred from sports. What was it like for you to sort of confront that element of our so-called community? I remember wanting to approach it carefully because I felt like the thing that will be really easy in this letter is to get incredibly self righteous.

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