Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

Coming out can be such a complicated and difficult thing for so many of us. Let's talk about what's involved, how often we have to do it, and why we do it at all... and how the most important thing is that you do it when and how is right for you. Nobody else gets to tell you how to do it! Storyboard artist Nazul "Suli" Sobrino returns to discuss jumping all the way in and how spite is a great motivator! Gimme those goosebumps! NAZUL "SULI" SOBRINO Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/suli.bsky.social TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/10/07/coming-out-as-trans/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) Body Hacking, Gender Dysphoria, Boymode and Girlmode, Pandemic Transition, What is Trans Tuesday?, Discriminatory Bureaucracy, Inclusive Bureaucracy, 2022 US Trans Survey Report part 4, Cis Spousal and Partner Support, Cis Grief, This is Not for You (aka Trans Day of Visibility, aka Yes You Are Trans Enough) REFERENCE MATERIAL Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix - https://ko-fi.com/tillybridges/shop Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

Birthdays can be rough for many people, but they can be extra difficult for trans people pre-transition... because why is a waking death worth celebrating? We discuss how tough they were, and how discombobulating it was during transition when that all started to change. Storyboard artist Nazul "Suli" Sobrino joins us to discuss how there's so many good things, and sometimes there's no other option. Why would you give a five year old a mug for a gift? Persistence in existence is resistance. NAZUL "SULI" SOBRINO Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/suli.bsky.social TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/16/trans-birthdays/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) The Past and Why it Haunts Us, The Past 2: The New Past, The Past 3: Trans Grief 1, The Past 4: Trans Grief 2, The Past 5: Recovering Trans Childhoods, Gender Dysphoria, Courage, Confidence, Confidence 2: Into the Unknown aka What is Happening aka A Whole New World, Freeing Up My Brain (lunch with Tilly), Unexpected Bonuses of Transition, Unexpected Changes from Transition Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

So what happens when trans youth are old enough for puberty blockers? What do they have to go through to get access to that care? Let me tell you how difficult it was for me, as an adult, and you'll maybe see how many barriers trans kids actually face. And we discuss the lengths good parents will go to in order to keep their kids safe. Karla, the cis mom of a trans kid, returns to discuss finding your humanity. Trans care is more important than cis mistakes, and children are people, not property! TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/09/23/trans-kids-2-the-intake-exam-and-trans-flight/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) Trans Kids 1: Facts and Dangers, Gender Dysphoria, Trans Day of Visibility (yes you are trans enough), Bodily Autonomy (and my tattoo), The Trans Allegories of The Matrix, The Trans Allegory of Barbie, The Trans Allegory of I Saw the TV Glow, The Trans Allegory of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' "Ad Astra Per Aspera", The Trans Allegory of Real Genius, The Trans Allegory of The Twilight Zone's "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room", Trans Politics 1-2, Performative Allyship, Performative Allyship 2: False Allyship, Proactive Allyship (be an accomplice), No Escape 2: Some Escape REFERENCE MATERIAL Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix - https://ko-fi.com/tillybridges/shop Informed consent/assent in children - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12884032/ Housing and Homelessness - https://transequality.org/issues/housing-homelessness Jobs and Housing - https://ustranssurvey.org/report/jobs-housing/ What I Wish I Knew Before My Child Came Out As Transgender - https://vanessaleenic.wordpress.com/2019/08/18/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-my-child-came-out-as-transgender/ What I Wish People Knew About Raising A Trans Child - https://www.sparklesandstretchmarks.com/what-i-wish-people-knew-about-raising/ I'm raising a transgender son. My child is not a threat - https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/08/07/parent-trans-kids-gender-affirming-care-trump/85428839007/ Anguish lingers as transgender kids’ families seek medical care outside Texas - https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/27/us/texas-families-transgender-youth-gender-affirming-care-ban New state laws force families with trans kids to seek gender-affirming care elsewhere - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/new-state-laws-force-families-with-trans-kids-to-seek-gender-affirming-care-elsewhere These families say they're leaving the U.S. because of its anti-transgender climate - https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/families-say-leaving-us-anti-transgender-climate-rcna206560​ Families With Trans Kids Are Fleeing the U.S. - https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/trans-youth-trump-leaving-u-s-1235256729/ Trans Relocation Guide: Finding Trans Asylum and Safe Havens - https://translash.org/resources/trans-relocation-guide-finding-trans-asylum-and-safe-havens/ Emergency Funds for Relocating and Supporting Families and Transgender Individuals - https://transbar.org/emergency-funds-for-relocating-and-supporting-families-and-transgender-individuals/ Trans Relocation Assistance - https://translifeline.org/resource_category/relocation-assistance/ Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban? - https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/05/22/utah-lawmakers-own-study-found/ Helen Joyce reveals plans to use fears around trans kids as stepping stone to eliminate “trans” in public life - https://transsafety.network/posts/joyce-speech-plans-to-abolish-trans-rights/ BOOKS FOR TRANS KIDS It Feels Good to be Yourself - https://bookshop.org/p/books/it-feels-good-to-be-yourself-a-book-about-gender-identity-theresa-thorn/7b755052cac75b9d My Shadow is Pink - https://bookshop.org/p/books/my-shadow-is-pink-scott-stuart/e7c85ad37127bf61 Call Me Max - https://bookshop.org/p/books/call-me-max-max-and-friends-1-max-and-friends-1-kyle-lukoff/d56c062a3dc543da Me and My Dysphoria Monster - https://bookshop.org/p/books/me-and-my-dysphoria-monster-an-empowering-story-to-help-children-cope-with-gender-dysphoria-laura-kate-dale/62a8e561b592613f Pink , Blue or Rainbow... It's Okay to Be you! - https://bookshop.org/p/books/pink-blue-or-rainbow-it-s-ok-to-be-you-hayley-m-davidson/f1c120b62d13623b Being You - https://bookshop.org/p/books/being-you-a-first-conversation-about-gender-jessica-ralli/11c616ec30704929 Pink, Blue and You! Questions for Kids About Gender Stereotypes - https://bookshop.org/p/books/pink-blue-and-you-questions-for-kids-about-gender-stereotypes-elise-gravel/52b0ecb2491f81df Fred Gets Dressed - https://bookshop.org/p/books/fred-gets-dressed-peter-brown/d2910c2ceef81d84 Who Are You? The Kid's Guide to Gender Identity - https://bookshop.org/p/books/who-are-you-the-kid-s-guide-to-gender-identity-brook-pessin-whedbee/424832cc1ecb65d6 Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

Trans kids exist, and they need your support. No, they're not getting surgeries... but cis kids and intersex kids sure are! Hopefully that bothers you, but it sure doesn't bother the people trying to take away the literally lifesaving care that trans kids need. Get a whole mountain of facts within, so you finally understand what's really going on (and why the entire legitimate professional healthcare industry is opposed to outlawing care for trans kids). Karla, the cis mom of a trans kid, joins us to discuss how you should give your kids agency! TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/09/trans-kids-and-the-intake-exam/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) Trans Parents (Mother's Day), Gender Dysphoria, The Signs Were Always There (that we're trans), Searching for Meaning (when you're trans and don't know it), Gendered Childhoods, Trans Trauma 2: Societal Gaslighting, The Past and Why it Haunts Us, The Past 2: The New Past (KJ and Paper Girls), The Past 3: Trans Grief 1, The Past 4: Trans Grief 2, The Past 5: Recovering Trans Childhoods, Trans Sports 1: Origins and "Advantages", Trans Sports 2: Science and Bigotry, The 2022 US Trans Survey Results part 4, Cis People Get Gender Affirming Healthcare Too, Hormone Replacement Therapy REFERENCE MATERIAL Trans youth as consistent in their identity as cis youth, study shows - https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/19/trans-youth-regret-incredibly-low/ Puberty blockers: Under-16s 'unlikely to be able to give informed consent' - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-55144148 2025 anti-trans bills tracker - https://translegislation.com/ Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment Map - https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans-national-legal-risk-assessment Children’s Hospital LA closes its gender-affirming care center - https://laist.com/news/health/in-a-landmark-move-childrens-hospital-la-closes-its-gender-affirming-care-center-today Governor Newsom’s Comments on Transgender Student Athletes - https://www.eqca.org/newsom-trans-remarks/ Suicidality Among Transgender Youth - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/ Doctors Agree: Gender-Affirming Care is Life-Saving Care - https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/doctors-agree-gender-affirming-care-is-life-saving-care Legislation to Criminalize Gender-Affirming Medical Care for Transgender Youth - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2780517 Gender-Critical Policy Causes Brain Damage in Trans Youth - https://www.transadvocate.com/gender-critical-policy-causes-brain-damage-in-trans-youth-affirmative-care-vs-preventive-interventions_n_95857.htm Prevalence of Gender-Affirming Surgical Procedures Among Minors and Adults in the US - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2820437 Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US - https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/25/i-want-be-nature-made-me/medically-unnecessary-surgeries-intersex-children-us# Tall girls, short boys: Using hormone therapy to shape children’s height to social norms - https://news.umich.edu/tall-girls-short-boys-using-hormone-therapy-to-shape-childrens-height-to-social-norms/ Cis boys get gender-affirming surgeries more often than trans minors - https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/07/cis-boys-get-gender-affirming-surgeries-more-often-than-transgender-minors/ Fewer than 1 in 1,000 US adolescents receive gender-affirming medications - https://apnews.com/article/transgender-hormones-puberty-blockers-youth-562cba3c3ae43e88d5144f7adb4efd7c No One Had a Problem With Puberty Blockers When Only Cis Kids Took Them - https://www.vice.com/en/article/no-one-had-a-problem-with-puberty-blockers-when-only-cis-kids-took-them/ Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental - https://juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth-is-neither-new-nor-experimental-a-timeline-and-compilation-b4bb8375d797 Emotional Health of Transgender Youth 24 Months After Initiating Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1054139X24005664?dgcid=author Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

So what does the science say about trans people and sports? You're not gonna believe this (yes you will), but it's entirely on the side of... trans people. So are elite cis women athletes. So what's the reason behind this push to keep trans women out of women's sports? Bigotry! And yes, we have proof (they've actually admitted it). Also a whole lot of sexism and the belief cis men are simply the best at everything and get super mad when they're not (there's proof of this too). Zoe Aurora Slater, former trainer of competing powerlifters and bodybuilders, returns to discuss the physics of photography and straight hesitancy. Be open to finding yourself along the way, friends. And fight for trans people's rights to compete in sports with our true genders! ZOE AURORA SLATER Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoeslaterphotography TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/09/09/trans-sports-2-science-and-bigotry/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) Trans Sports 1: Origins and "Advantages," Trans Politics 1-2, The Erasure of Trans Men, The False Dichotomy REFERENCE MATERIAL They're lying to you about transgender women and girls in sports - https://ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports/2025/03/13/transgender-lgbtq-rights-women-sports-ncaa-debate-trump-tuberville-lies/82331359007/ This study on trans women's athletic disadvantages ought to change the debate - https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympic-trans-women-ioc-study-rcna148437 U.S. Olympic officials ban transgender women from women's events - https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/45798587/us-olympic-officials-ban-transgender-women-women-events Why There Are No Trans Women Competing at the Paris Games - https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trans-athletes-paris-olympics/ Transgender sportswomen ‘at a disadvantage’ study claims - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2024/04/11/transgender-sportswomen-at-a-disadvantage-study-claims/ Transgender Athletes Could Be At A Physical Disadvantage, New Research Shows - https://www.forbes.com/sites/lindseyedarvin/2024/04/25/transgender-athletes-could-be-at-a-physical-disadvantage-new-research-shows/ Body composition, exercise-related performance parameters and associated health factors of transgender women, cisgender women and cisgender men volleyball players - https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/59/15/1073 The sports where women outperform men - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240731-the-sports-where-women-outperform-men The Woman Who (Maybe) Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-woman-who-maybe-struck-out-babe-ruth-and-lou-gehrig-4759182/ Madge Syers was a British figure skater. She became the first woman to compete at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1902 by entering what was previously an all-male event and won the silver medal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Syers The 1992 Summer Olympics was the last skeet competition open to both men and women, and the only mixed shooting competition at the Olympics ever won by a woman: Zhang Shan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_at_the_1992_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Mixed_skeet Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as an officially registered competitor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathrine_Switzer Megan Rapinoe Discusses Transgender Sports Bans - https://time.com/6188583/megan-rapinoe-equal-pay-title-ix-transgender-sports-bans/ Title IX: Athletes can play amid sexual misconduct inquiries - https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/39970530/title-ix-rules-athletes-sexual-misconduct Dutch beach volleyball player who was convicted of rape is booed before losing first Olympic match - https://apnews.com/article/2024-olympics-convicted-rapist-beach-volleyball-b90c5652e620cf355c28b97a36a5566b Swimmer Riley Gaines Admits She's Just Using Sports to Make Trans Rights "Crumble" - https://www.them.us/story/riley-gaines-sports-trans-rights Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

Trans people in sports?! Huge if true. Republicans would have you believe this is a national emergency of the utmost unfairness, and for some reason a lot of otherwise good allies fall into the "well I just don't know about sports..." trap. So let's talk about where the origins of policing trans bodies in sports comes from (spoilers: it's literally the nazis), and how "unfair advantages" are actually what sports are all about. And let's talk about how trans women don't have those "advantages" anyway. You're gonna learn! Zoe Aurora Slater, former trainer of competing powerlifters and bodybuilders, joins us to discuss how everything has joy in it and a catch-22 in hell. What's the whip? ZOE AURORA SLATER Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoeslaterphotography TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/13/trans-people-in-sports/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) Bad Representation: Emilia Perez, Trans Kids and the Intake Exam, Gender Dysphoria, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Trans Trauma 2: Societal Gaslighting, Gendered Childhoods, Trans Body Hacking, One Year - Five Years Out and on HRT Retrospectives, Trans History 1: How and Why We Name Trans People in History, The 2022 US Trans Survey Report parts 3 - 4 REFERENCE MATERIAL World swimming bans transgender athletes from women’s events - https://apnews.com/article/transgender-swimmers-new-rules-fina-world-governing-body-c17e99d3121fa964336458b57ae266f7 Want to be a pro basketball player? That's a tall order - https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/want-to-be-a-pro-basketball-player-thats-a-tall-order/2015/10/28/52c1ce40-78ff-11e5-a958-d889faf561dc_story.html At 7’9", he’s about to become the tallest college basketball player ever - https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/sport/olivier-rioux-tallest-college-basketball-player-cec/index.html Why Michael Phelps Has the Perfect Body for Swimming - https://www.biography.com/athletes/michael-phelp-perfect-body-swimming Ten ethical flaws in the Caster Semenya decision on intersex in sport - https://theconversation.com/ten-ethical-flaws-in-the-caster-semenya-decision-on-intersex-in-sport-116448 Explained: The gender controversy miring women's Olympic boxing - https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2024/0731/1462837-explained-the-gender-controversy-miring-womens-olympic-boxing/ False accusations surrounding Olympic boxer highlight debate around gender and sports - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/false-accusations-surrounding-olympic-boxer-highlight-debate-around-gender-and-sports J.K. Rowling Invents A Trans Olympian To Get Mad At - https://defector.com/j-k-rowling-invents-a-trans-olympian-to-get-mad-at?giftLink=6afdf0d572fc26922a8c8efbc8862dd0​ The Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/magazine/the-humiliating-practice-of-sex-testing-female-athletes.html The Nazi-Era Myth Behind Olympics Gender-Testing Rules - https://time.com/6998445/nazi-myth-olympics-gender-testing/ Discrimination against trans Olympians has roots in Nazi Germany - https://www.vox.com/culture/364032/trans-athletes-olympics-2024 Tested podcast: a surprising history of women’s sports - https://www.tested-podcast.com/ Lady Ballers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Ballers The Behind-the-Scenes Journey of The Daily Wire’s Trans-Panic Sports Movie Disproves Its Entire Thesis - https://www.themarysue.com/ben-shapiro-admits-the-daily-wires-transphobic-movie-lady-ballers-is-nonsense/ Lance Armstrong doping case - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Armstrong_doping_case Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

Let's wrap up discussion on this last batch of 2022 US Trans Survey data! This week we get into trans people's mental health (and the reasons it's maybe not great), detransitioners, and the absolutely bananas (complimentary) success rates of social and medical transition! Improviser Sara Rose Caplan returns to discuss compulsions and our mind buffers failing! This is not a fascist podcast! SARA ROSE CAPLAN Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sararosecaplan/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sararosecaplan TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/08/26/the-2022-us-trans-survey-results-part-4/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) 2022 US Trans Survey parts 1-3, Trans Intersectionality REFERENCE MATERIAL Health and Wellbeing, findings from the 2022 U.S. Trans Survey - https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/USTS_2022Health%26WellbeingReport_WEB.pdf Regret in Surgical Decision Making: A Systematic Review of Patient and Physician Perspectives - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1007/s00268-017-3895-9 Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman - https://bookshop.org/p/books/empire-of-normality-neurodiversity-and-capitalism-robert-chapman/19939695 Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

We're finally getting some results from the 2022 US Trans Survey, the largest of its kind ever conducted in the US. Let's dive into the results and talk about some of the biggest findings. In this episode, our experiences with healthcare providers (spoilers: it's not great). Improviser Sara Rose Caplan joins us to discuss doin' prov' and confronting our own dysphoric attitudes! SARA ROSE CAPLAN Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sararosecaplan/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sararosecaplan TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/08/19/the-2022-us-trans-survey-results-part-3/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) 2022 US Trans Survey parts 1 and 2, Gender Dysphoria, Transmedicalism (and WPATH version 1), Complete Trans Healthcare (or lack thereof), Anecdotal Trans Healthcare, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Proactive Allyship, No Escape 2: Some Escape (due to cis allyship) REFERENCE MATERIAL Health and Wellbeing, findings from the 2022 U.S. Trans Survey - https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/USTS_2022Health%26WellbeingReport_WEB.pdf Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

Time to wrap up our discussion on the complicated relationship trans people have with touch. This week, we look at our feelings about consensual sex and just how touch-starved many of us feel. Painter and color designer Erin Rodriguez returns to discuss holding onto childhood dreams, and mentoring the trans people who come out after us. Let's all try to be more accepting of having a good time! ERIN RODRIGUEZ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heyoerinpaints TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/08/12/trans-touch-3-sex-and-being-touch-starved/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) Trans Touch 1: Personal Experiences, Trans Touch 2: Platonic Touch and Hugs, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Transmedicalism (and WPATH version 1) Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

We continue our series on trans people and our complicated relationship with physical touch, diving into your survey responses and comments about platonic touch and hugs. Did transition make a difference in how we perceive and feel about them? Painter and color designer Erin Rodriguez returns discuss horror and the queer psyche! Also cats! I'm weird! Apparently. ERIN RODRIGUEZ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heyoerinpaints TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/08/05/trans-touch-2-platonic-touch-and-hugs/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) Trans Touch 1: Personal Experiences, Anecdotal Trans Healthcare, Transmedicalism (and WPATH version 1), Gender Dysphoria, Compliments, Bodily Autonomy (and my tattoo), Names and Pronouns Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

Physical touch is something I've struggled with for most of my life, because it's invariably tangled up in my gender dysphoria, and I was so surprised to see how it all shifted for me after transition. And I'm not alone! I've seen so many trans and nonbinary people struggle with it, so I ran a survey to get your thoughts, and you flooded me with them! This week I'm going to discuss my own complicated feelings on the topic, and then over the next two weeks we're going to dive into the wealth of data you all sent me to see if we can find some commonalities! Painter and color designer Erin Rodriguez joins us to discuss being in tune with your body, and how we're NOT going to discuss the cookie. No crappy sandwiches! ERIN RODRIGUEZ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heyoerinpaints TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/07/29/trans-touch-1-personal-experiences/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) Gender Dysphoria, What is Trans Tuesday?, Trans Grief 1 and 2, Bodily Autonomy (and my tattoo), Gender Euphoria, Hormone Replacement Therapy Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

Hi babes! New Trans Tuesdays will be back next week, but this week we're doing a feed swap with the Lez Hang Out podcast! They're running a Trans Tuesday episode, and I'm running one of theirs! if you're not familiar with Lez Hang Out, the show dives into LGBTQ+ media, life, and representation with iconic guests and sapphic hilarity. So here's the interview they did with me a couple years back about my book Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix! It was still early on in my voice therapy, so my voice is a bit yikes to me, but it's good stuff! have a listen! and check out the rest of their episodes for a very queer good time! LEZ HANG OUT https://www.lezhangoutpod.com --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

Though I've known I was trans for over a decade, this week marks my five years out and on HRT milestone! So lets see where things are at physically, mentally, socially, and more! What kind of more? Heels! Bikinis! Booooooobs?? I'm a good weird! TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/07/08/five-years-out-and-on-hrt-check-in/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) One Year Retrospective, Two Year Retrospective, Three Year Retrospective, Four Year Retrospective, Trans Tabletop Roleplaying Games, Confidence, Confidence 2: Into the Unknown (aka What is Happening aka A Whole New World), Body Hair, A Pandemic Transition, Photos and Reflections, Photos 2: The Selfie Apocalypse, Photos 3: Tilly's Guide to Selfies, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Hair, Hair 2: First Haircut, Trans Voices 1: Gendering, Trans Voices 2: Hearing the True You, Trans Voices 3: Interview with a Speech-Language Pathologist, Parents Who Will Never Know the Real You (aka My Dad), Performative Allyship, Body Hacking, Gender Euphoria, Bodily Autonomy, Anecdotal Trans Healthcare, Transition Setbacks, Finding Our Trans Style Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

For trans people who transition as adults, lost childhoods are something we struggle with in a myriad of ways. But sometimes you might just get a little glimpse into what could have been... from art that speaks to you in ways you never could have imagined. This is about life, and love, and loss, this is about Paper Girls, this is about KJ... and this is about me. Writer and nerd June Green returns to discuss betting on yourself and paying the cheese tax. Let's all go pilot our flesh mechs! JUNE GREEN Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saint_june_bloom/ TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/08/the-new-past/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) Heavily Gendered Clothes and Trans People, Bad Representation: Lovecraft Country, Bad Representation: Emilia Perez, Good Representation: Cyberpunk 2077, Finding our Own Representation (P!nk), Physical Representation and the Hollywood Ideal, The Past and Why it Haunts Us, Trans Representation in Media 2022, Trans Representation in Media 2023, Trans Representation in Media 2024, Hair, Hair 2, Trans Grief 1, Trans Grief 2, Trans Trauma 2: Societal Gaslighting REFERENCE MATERIAL Long Away film short - https://seedandspark.com/fund/long-away Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

Pride month! It's about trans and queer people, and that's cool! Why don't cis people get a month too? SO GLAD YOU ASKED. Have a listen and let's talk about what it is that we have to be proud of. Writer and nerd June Green joins us to discuss water conservation in the bog witch community and HRT blow darts! Have you experienced ewwphoria? I'm the most dangerous game! JUNE GREEN Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saint_june_bloom/ TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/06/24/why-is-there-no-cis-pride/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) Trans Motivation, Trans Intersectionality, The False Dichotomy, Trans History 1, Trans History 2, Trans History 3, Trans Trauma 2: Societal Gaslighting, Implicit Queerphobia, The Matrix and its Trans Allegories, Rainbow Capitalism, You Are Trans Enough, Cis Privilege, Confidence, Trans Representation in Media 2022, Trans Representation in Media 2023, Trans Representation in Media 2024, This Is Not For You, Cis Is Not A Slur REFERENCE MATERIAL Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day - https://bookshop.org/p/books/trans-history-a-graphic-novel-from-ancient-times-to-the-present-day-alex-l-combs/21746915 The Pink Triangle - https://www.thepinktriangle.com/history/symbol.html Why It Took Decades for LGBTQ Stories to Be Included in Holocaust History - https://time.com/5953047/lgbtq-holocaust-stories/ The Oppressive History of LGBTQ+ Communities Worldwide - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychology-for-the-people/202106/the-oppressive-history-of-lgbtq-communities-worldwide Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6864400/ LGBTQ Rights Timeline in American History - https://lgbtqhistory.org/lgbt-rights-timeline-in-american-history/ A brief history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements - https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/history International Men's Day - https://internationalmensday.com/ Begin Transmission: The trans allegories of The Matrix - https://www.amazon.com/Begin-Transmission-trans-allegories-Matrix/dp/B0BYPFFBGH/ Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

It's time to wrap up this installment of Tillyvision, as Star Trek: Strange New World's "Ad Astra Per Aspera" comes to a close! We talk why we'd want to be part of a society that oppresses us, how and why we can be better, and maybe this show gives us a road map for how we can get there. Critic and journalist Mo Ryan returns to discuss how it's up to those with privilege to USE it to do what you can to help (and has a shoutout for Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg!). What can YOU do to help trans people? Who do we want to be? MAUREEN "MO" RYAN Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/moryan.bsky.social Instagram: www.instagram.com/moryan66/ Website: moryan.com TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/06/17/the-intentional-trans-allogory-of-strange-new-worlds-ad-astra-per-aspera-part-3/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) Cis Apathy, Misgendering and Passing, Unexpected Changes from Transition, A Trans Re-wedding, Trans Tabletop Roleplaying Games REFERENCE MATERIAL Begin Transmission: The trans allegories of The Matrix - https://www.amazon.com/Begin-Transmission-trans-allegories-Matrix/dp/B0BYPFFBGH/ Cis woman ‘fired after customer accused her of being trans’ says it felt like a ‘stab in the back’ - https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/27/cis-woman-fired-after-customer-accused-her-of-being-trans-says-it-felt-like-a-stab-in-the-back/ The ‘Star Trek’ Cast on the Radical LGBT+ Representation of ‘Strange New Worlds’ - https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-cast-on-its-radical-lgbt-portrayal/ On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World, by Danya Ruttenberg - https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-repentance-and-repair-making-amends-in-an-unapologetic-world-danya-ruttenberg/19498640 Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

We're back with the meaty middle part of our discussion of Ad Astra Per Aspera! We're going to talk about cis hypocrisy, how some cis people experience so much fear that they might be trans that it motivates their transphobia, and how being "one of the good ones" won't save us. Critic and journalist Maureen Ryan returns to discuss being book birthday buddies and how the bar is in hell! I don't want to hurt other people just to help myself. MAUREEN "MO" RYAN MAUREEN "MO" RYAN Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/moryan.bsky.social Instagram: www.instagram.com/moryan66/ Website: moryan.com TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/06/10/the-intentional-trans-allegory-of-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-ad-astra-per-aspera-part-2/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) Cis People Get Gender Affirming Healthcare Too, Cis Grief, Trans Trauma 2: Societal Gaslighting, Implicit Queerphobia, Internalized Transphobia Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

Let's dive into two of my favorite things that taste great together... trans allegories, and Star Trek! Season two, episode two of Strange New Worlds, "Ad Astra Per Aspera," rocked my world. Because it shouted with its whole chest TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. So let's get you the context you need if you've never watched a Star Trek, and dive into our main discussion! Critic and journalist Maureen Ryan joins us to discuss confident humility, and how as far as you know there's only one of her! MAUREEN "MO" RYAN MAUREEN "MO" RYAN Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/moryan.bsky.social Instagram: www.instagram.com/moryan66/ Website: moryan.com TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/06/03/the-intentional-trans-allegory-of-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-ad-astra-per-aspera-part-1/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) A Trans Re-wedding, The Trans Allegory of Barbie, The Trans Allegory of I Saw the TV Glow, The Trans Allegory of Real Genius, The Trans Allegory of Silo s1, Trans Politics 2: You Must Vote to Protect Us, Proactive Allyship (be an accomplice), Gender Dysphoria, Misgendering and Passing, Transmedicalism (and WPATH version 1), Trans Trauma 2: Societal Gaslighting REFERENCE MATERIAL IDW August Full 2025 Solicits - https://bleedingcool.com/comics/idw-august-full-2025-solicits-event-horizon-valiant-tmnt-sonic/ Begin Transmission: The trans allegories of The Matrix - https://www.amazon.com/Begin-Transmission-trans-allegories-Matrix/dp/B0BYPFFBGH/ Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Bluesky: @pendantaudio.bsky.social‬

Tabletop roleplaying games offer everyone a chance to become someone else, just for a little while. And for trans folks, that can lead to some of our earliest experimentation with gender. Comic writer Zoe Tunnell returns to discuss seducing the dragon and dirtbag lesbian chic! ZOE TUNNELL Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/zoewithasword.bsky.social Website: http://www.zoetunnell.com TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/05/27/trans-tabletop-roleplaying-games/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) Implicit Queerphobia, Gender Dysphoria, Gender Euphoria, 2022 Trans Representation in Media, 2023 Trans Representation in Media, 2024 Trans Representation in Media REFERENCE MATERIAL Visibility An RPG Magazine from the Trans Community - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/516656/visibility-an-rpg-magazine-from-the-trans-community-issue-1 Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Twitter: @pendantweb Facebook: facebook.com/pendantaudio Tumblr: pendantaudio.tumblr.com YouTube: youtube.com/pendantproductions

Body hair! Love it or hate it, it's something nearly every human has to deal with. And for those of us who hate it, whose dysphoria it makes worse, that can mean a whole intensive process to get rid of it. So let's talk about what all that entails, and why we'd go through it just to have to do it all over again. And again. And again. Comic writer Zoe Tunnell joins us to discuss feeling better in yourself and going buckwild in comics! Space horse! ZOE TUNNELL Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/zoewithasword.bsky.social Website: http://www.zoetunnell.com TEXT VERSION https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/20/body-hair/ FURTHER READING (topics discussed with essays available at http://TillysTransTuesdays.com) This is Not for You (Trans Day of Visibility, Yes You Are Trans Enough), Gender Dysphoria, Gender Euphoria, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Privilege (Time and Money), Internalized Transphobia, Parents Who Will Never Know the Real You (aka My Dad) Special thanks to Daisy and Jane for the use of "Sorry Not Sorry" as our show's theme music. Please stop by and show your support at daisyandjane.bandcamp.com and soundcloud.com/daisyandjane --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Twitter: @pendantweb Facebook: facebook.com/pendantaudio Tumblr: pendantaudio.tumblr.com YouTube: youtube.com/pendantproductions