Transparency

When Dad Became Joan - with Cath Lloyd

Cath Lloyd is the daughter of male to female trans parent. In 1987 her Dad suddenly announced that he was going to undergo gender reassignment treatment. This was a total shock to the whole family, except for her Mum who had known about her Dad's gender dysphoria for 10 years. There were no warning signs. Once Cath finally got through her bereavement process for her Dad, she wrote her book, "When Dad Became Joan" to support other people going through gender reassignment.
Links: https://cathlloyd.co.uk
About Cath’s book: https://whendadbecamejoan.co.uk
Cath’s TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/DFm3AOsT2MM
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Sexology in Samoa - with Dr Paul Vasey

Dr Paul L. Vasey is Professor and Board of Governors Research Chair in Culture, Organization and Society at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. His research has focused on understanding the development, evolution and psychobiology of gender diversity and sexual orientation. He has studied female homosexual behavior in Japanese monkeys for the past 33 years. This work has been described as “transformative” by leading scholars in the field. For 19 years, he has conducted annual fieldwork in Samoa, a culture where feminine same-sex attracted males are identified as a “third” gender, called fa’afafine, that is distinct from cisgender men and women. In 2015, Dr. Vasey established another fieldsite in the Istmo region of Oaxaca, Mexico. In this area, the indigenous Zapotec people recognize feminine same-sex attracted males as a third gender called, muxe. This work has been complemented by his long-term research on cisgender gay men in Canada and Japan. His cross-cultural research has been described by external reviewers as “cutting-edge” and “stunningly original.” Vasey is one of only a handful Canadian scholars to receive research grants from NSERC, CIHR and SSHRC, as well as NIH.  His research has been reported on in hundreds of newspapers and magazines worldwide including the New York Times, Oprah, Playboy, National Geographic and TIME. He has been interviewed on camera for several television documentaries, most recently by the American journalist Katie Couric, for the National Geographic documentary, Gender Revolution, in which he spoke about the special role fa’afafine play in promoting the well-being of their families. 
 
Dr Vasey at the University of Lethbridge:
https://people.uleth.ca/~paul.vasey/PLV/home.html
 
Lecture at the University of Lethbridge:
https://youtu.be/hNyy3g2yVfs
 
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The Autism Connection - with Christina Buttons

Christina is an independent journalist who writes about gender, pseudoscience, mental health, autism and critical thinking. She advocates for early autism screening and education and a model of transition care that prioritizes thorough, individualized assessments that explore gender-related distress.
https://buttonslives.substack.com/p/how-autistic-traits-can-be-mistaken
 
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Soft spoken. Soft hearts - with Julia Malott

Julia Malott is a transgender woman in Ontario, Canada. After running as a candidate for her 2022 school board trustee election, she has been active in school boards across Ontario. Julia holds herself as a voice against illiberal ideologies and seeks to bridge conversations about sex and gender in a way that brings about workable solutions for everyone.
Julia's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@alottamalotta
Book by Mark Yarhouse: https://www.amazon.ca/Understanding-Gender-Dysphoria-Mark-Yarhouse/dp/0830828591
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The sound a whistle makes - with Jamie Reed

Jamie Reed is a self described Queer woman and mom of 5. She holds a Masters of Science in Clinical Research Management and previously worked as a case manager at the Washington University School of Medicine's paediatric transgender centre at St Louis Children's Hospital. She left the position in November of 2022 due to concerns that they were harming more than helping many of their patients. Last month she published a story in the Free Press of what she described as morally and medically appalling clinical practices. 
 
Free Press Article: https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids
Webinar about the article: https://youtu.be/_6sPG7gleOs
Article by Jesse Singal: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/gender-clinic-whistleblower-jamie
 
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Internalizing/externalizing GNC - With Zander Keig

Zander Keig is an award winning clinical social worker and a female to male transsexual of Mexican heritage.
His advocacy work involves serving as Welcome Ministry Board President, Transgender American Veterans Association Board Director of the Community & Fellowship Committee, Advisory Board member, and Senior Fellow for the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism. Zander is the co-founder of the LGBTQ Caregiver Center and serves on the National Alliance of Caregiving Mental Health Advisory Committee, the RISE National Advisory Board, and the Better Living for Seniors Special LGBT Committee.
In this episode, Aaron Kimberly discusses with Zander some of their similarities and contrasting experiences of gender non-conformity and gender dysphoria.
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A Serenity Prayer for TRAs - With Laura Hobbs

Laura Hobbs is a self described "Gay-GP", a play on Autogynephilia (AGP) with a meta attraction to men. Having once been a controversial and radical trans activist, she has learned that self awareness and acceptance, not the activist narrative, has greatly improved her overall mental health.
Laura’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCLGOwgwMHCYy65YrtX2EHzw
Laura on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommieDGurl?s=20
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The Eunuch Makers - with Eliza Mondegreen

Eliza is a graduate student researching online trans and detrans communities, with a focus on how these communities influence attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge about gender and expectations and intentions toward transition and/or detransition. She attended the WPATH SOC 8 launch conference in September 2022 and describes her some of her observations there.
Her substack, Gender:Hacked - https://elizamondegreen.substack.com
Twitter - https://twitter.com/elizamondegreen?s=20&t=QXEMxI7NmT6rUS4exj7ILA
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The Cost of Transparency

Earlier this week, the Gender Dysphoria Alliance published a blog article chronicling the ripple-effect impact that speaking publicly has had on Aaron Kimberly's family. In this episode of Transparency, the two hosts discuss the spirit in which that article was written, reminding our audience that at the centre of everything is our humanity and interconnectedness.
The blog article discussed can be found here: https://www.genderdysphoriaalliance.c...
The recent article by a gender clinic insider can be found here: https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-w...
Article about Two Spirit people: https://www.genderdysphoriaalliance.c...
An interview with Canadian transsexual who’s applied for MAiD: https://youtu.be/l61tSgkpFTg
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Autohetero - with Phil Illy

Phil Illy is an autoheterosexual author who, in his words, “aims to mainstream autoheterosexuality and destigmatize it so that more of his kind can jettison shame and live in union with their inner cross-gender spirit.” Prior to writing a soon to be released book about his sexual orientation, Phil received degrees in physics and mechanical engineering before retiring to Portland, Oregon, where he became best known for his skill at handstand twerking and juggling hula hoops.
Phil's website: http://autoheterosexual.com/
 
Some terms and references are used in this episode that may not be clear to the average listener. Here is a brief glossary of terms:
"Allo" means other, or external.
"Auto" means self, or internal.
"Gyno" means female.
"Andro" means male.
"Philia" means love (or, less euphemistically, sexual attraction).
"Meta" means self-referential
A typical heterosexual male is technically "allogynephilic". The vast majority of people are, in sexologic terms, alloheterosexual.
But a male who is attracted to the thought or image of himself as female is "autogynephilic", while a female who is attracted to herself as male is "autoandrophilic". These last two are what our guest has termed "autoheterosexual".
The final term above, meta, is used in this context to describe the type of external sexual behaviors of autoheterosexuals, who often experience (and act upon) homosexual desires as a means of validating their self-perception as the opposite sex. For example, an autogynephilic male is not attracted to other males (not alloandrophilic), but sexual behavior with males serves as a validation of the self as female. That is metaandrophilia.
 
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Dr. Michael J. Bailey's book is The Man Who Would be Queen. https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/JMichael-Bailey/TMWWBQ.pdf
Dr. Anne Lawrence's book is Men Trapped in Men's Bodies. https://surveyanon.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/men-trapped-in-mens-bodies_book.pdf
Dr Susan Bradley - Autism and Gender - https://youtu.be/QMH8T8FxLYg
The podcast Aaron T mentioned. NOTE: it's an episode of Invisibilia, not This American Life. The relevant segment starts around the 6:30 mark. https://www.npr.org/2015/02/06/384104070/paiges-story
TAILCALLED:
https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/lesbian-autoandrophilia/
https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/triangulating-autohomosexuality/
https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/09/10/meta-attraction-cannot-account-for-all-autogynephiles-interest-in-men/
https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2022/10/12/towards-a-comprehensive-study-of-potential-psychological-causes-of-the-ordinary-range-of-variation-of-affective-gender-identity-in-males/
 
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