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Episode 39 - Trans Lives, Trans Kids, Trans Panic with Jules Gill-Peterson

The Feminist Present

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Transphobes and Transphobia

I just think like you know again once we de-dramatize and de-exceptionize trans people's experience of having genders that's fine by me. Don't look to trans people to solve some sort of massive problem and deliver us to utopia because I just think that that's ultimately a distraction. We are all interdependent and gender is so intensely sociable as a sexuality that we are already implicated with each other. A lot of transphobia is about severiously trying to anxiously try to sever our social ties in concert with other people. In the end it's really easy to diffuse all of this right and to accept that being trans not only a good outcome but

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