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Year Zero with Wesley Yang"I was able to get a second letter. And that was all the surgeon required in order to agree to remove my testicles and perform a penectomy and a vaginoplasty on an 18 year old."This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wesleyyang.substack.comToday's bonus podcast for paid subscribers is the first 40 minutes of my marathon conversation with Corinna Cohn. Toward the end of that podcast, I referred to the beginning of our conversation as "tense." I don't mean that we were in any way hostile, just that it took a little while for us to fully establish our rapport and for the conversation to bec…2023-09-1803 min
Year Zero with Wesley Yang"Here's the bottom line...It is going to be very difficult for them to find loving, long term partners, because you have fucked up their bodies in ways that are going to complicate relationships."Corinna Cohn is a software developer living in Indiana who was among the very first teenagers to go on cross-sex hormones in adolescence, at the age of 15 in 1993. He was inducted into a cross-sex identity on the very first transsexual-interest Internet Relay Chat groups in the early 1990’s and underwent vaginoplasty at the age of 19. After decades of attempting to live as a woman, he reached an acknowledgment that he insists every other person who undertakes the same quixotic endeavor will eventually acknowledge to be true: “Their sex is what they were born as. Everybody knows if you...2023-08-252h 23
Year Zero with Wesley Yang"We're giving these girls mastectomies. You have to be curious about what's going on."Year Zero is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.A small group of writers attended two conferences on gender held concurrently in Killarney, Ireland in April. One was the annual meeting of the European affiliate of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, known as EPATH. The other was the first gathering of an upstart organization called Genspect, which declared itself a rival to WPATH by scheduling a conference right down the road. Genspect urges an open-ended and exploratory...2023-06-091h 10