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This week, El and Josie discuss both the pressures and barriers gender expansive folx face to access medical transition steps, and how both of those things can be harmful to gender expansive folx.

CW: dysphoria mention, suicide mention, surgery discussion

In the episode we mentioned three "queer history" books that El has been reading recently:

• Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov  (and many others) - a series of small memoirs of older nonbinary folx
• The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman - a historic account of the gay movement from the 50s through the Obama administration
• Transgender History by Susan Stryker -  a surprisingly positive telling of the trans rights movements from antiquity through the Trump administration

In addition, here are a few more gender-related queer history books El has read recently! 

• Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex - a series of essays depicting the interesectional oppression trans folx, and especially BIPOC trans folx, experience in the prison industrial complex 
• Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility - a series of essays discussing trans representation in art and the effect (or lack of effect) that has on trans rights
• How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS - a historic account of the AIDs epidemic and how it intersected with the gay revolution
• The Stonewall Reader - a series of essays by the folx who were there that fateful night & weekend at Stonewall

Music for Gender Journeys Composed by Sonia Bourdaghs

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