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P diddy updates as Cassie takes the stand, Nerd delivers things he's learned about cats, Nikki Bella pays spousal support to loser ex, JoJo Siwa struggles to remain relevant and Lorde apparently wants in the LGB madness. Twitter: @voicesofmisery mewe: @voicesofmisery Parler: voices of misery Gmail: voicesofmiserypodcast@gmail.com Instagram: voicesofmiserypodcast Discord server: voices of misery podcast https://tinyurl.com/VoMPodcastTees

Five years later and we're still standing on business. We're celebrating with Queer Urban Dictionary lessons (Gender Cues + Ponk), in Category is we discuss then vs. now moments, the moments that made us and discussing our queer hair experiences in Hair-apy. Of course, we share your messy Am I A Bad Queer? dilemmas, and take a stroll down Bad Queer Opinions memory lane. Cheers to 5 years of Bad Queers!Shoutouts: Kris: UK Black Pride - celebrating their 20th year in August. Founded by Lady Phyll, UK Black Pride is the world's largest celebration for LGBTQI+ people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American and Middle Eastern-descent. Follow on IG @ukblackprideShana: @Slipp3rywhenwet for introducing me to Salsa Soul Sisters which is the oldest Black lesbian organization in the US. Existing from 1974-1993, in the aftermath of Stonewall to particularly focus on issues of racism impacting lesbians of color. Read more about the Salsa Soul Sisters @Slipp3rywhenwetEpisode Notes: 2:23 - Queer Urban Dictionary4:09 - Category is: Then vs. Now Topics 18:38 - Category is: The Moments that Made us 24:57 - Category is: Hair-apy41:24 - Am I a Bad Queer?55:50 - Bad Queer Opinions1:02:09 - ShoutoutsShare your Am I A Bad Queer? hereSupport the showWe are on Patreon!! patreon.com/BadQueersPodcast Subscribe to our Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/@BadQueersPodcastSend your Am I A Bad Queer questions to us on our website at https://badqueers.com/ or at badqueers@badqueers.com Follow us @badqueerspod on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & Tik TokOpening song by Siena Liggins: @sienaligginsLike us? Love us? Leave a review The opinions expressed during this podcast are conversational in nature and expressed only for comedic purposes. Not all of the facts will be correct but we attempt to be as accurate as possible. BQ Media LLC, the hosts, nor any guest host(s) hold no liability over the conversations on this podcast and by using this podcast you understand that it is solely for entertainment purposes. Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, parody, scholarship and research.

Mit Felix Hecht vom Beirat der Selbsthilfe queerer Menschen SHALK in Köln, sprach Cornelia in Essen über Suchtselbsthilfe im Spannungsfeld von schwul und queer, über Altersaspekte und ob es ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal in der Suchthilfe für queere Menschen gibt, über Spaltungsversuche bei LGB und über die Entwicklung in Deutschland. Weiterlesen →

A refreshing voice cuts through the noise of gender politics as Larry Shell, a self-described "TERG" (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Gay), shares his journey from recognizing his homosexuality in sixth grade to finding his authentic voice in today's complex discussions about gender and sexuality.Larry's story begins in 1970s Chicago where, unlike many of his peers, he recognized his same-sex attraction early. "I understood what the culture was saying and I understood who I was and I chose me and decided that this is who I am, and the culture be damned," he explains. This early self-acceptance shaped his path through the Navy (until his discharge for homosexuality), his eventual 28-year nursing career, and now his writing on Substack.What makes Larry's perspective particularly valuable is his ability to combine personal experience, medical knowledge, and careful observation. He articulates a view increasingly shared by many in the LGB community who feel their concerns have been sidelined in the rush to embrace gender ideology. Larry identifies four distinct groups currently labeled under the trans umbrella, each with different motivations and challenges that require nuanced approaches rather than one-size-fits-all affirmation.Perhaps most striking is Larry's challenge to the modern demand for external validation. Drawing from his own experience growing up without affirmation, he questions whether constant external validation should be necessary for a secure identity. "I didn't rely on affirmation from people around me, and I still don't need affirmation," he notes, suggesting that true self-acceptance comes from within rather than from society's approval.For anyone seeking thoughtful perspectives beyond the usual polarized debate, this conversation offers a refreshing middle ground that combines respect for individuals with recognition of biological reality. Follow Larry Shell on his Substack "Renz in the Woods" to continue exploring these important discussions.Support the showEngage the conversation on Substack at The Common Bridge!

Kentucky's strong anti-discrimination laws are in place following decades of advocacy work by the Fairness Campaign. Its executive director Chris Hartman visited 840WHAS to discuss the recent Kentucky state legislature's override of Gov. Andy Beshear's support of trans medical care and his aversion to the concept of conversion therapy.We also discussed online discussions of whether the LGB community should separate from the TQ+ advocacy messaging that roils a significant segment of society.  

La asignatura de Educación Física puede ser un espacio de bienestar, disfrute y desarrollo personal, pero para muchos estudiantes LGB sigue representando un entorno de exclusión y discriminación. En este episodio del podcast, contamos con Daniel Martos, profesor del Departamento de Didáctica en la Facultad de Magisterio de la Universidad de Valencia, quien ha investigado el impacto de la diversidad afectivo-sexual en la enseñanza de la Educación Física.Durante la conversación, abordamos las barreras que enfrentan los estudiantes LGB en EF, como la segregación por género, la falta de referentes inclusivos y la reproducción de estereotipos en la práctica deportiva. También exploramos cómo la estructura tradicional del currículo puede reforzar estas desigualdades y qué estrategias pueden implementar los docentes para generar entornos más seguros y equitativos.Un aspecto clave es el rol del profesorado en la creación de climas de respeto y diversidad, así como la necesidad de contar con formación específica en inclusión y diversidad afectivo-sexual. Además, analizamos el impacto de las metodologías inclusivas, como el fomento del trabajo cooperativo, la flexibilización del currículo y el uso de modelos alternativos que permitan la participación de todo el alumnado sin discriminación.

Mit Lia Şahin sprach Cornelia Kost über die Situation vor der Wahl. Was können wir tun, wenn die Rechten eine Mehrheit bekommen? Sollen wir auswandern oder hier kämpfen. Wie sie die von den Rechten betriebene Spaltung von LGB und TIQ eischätzt. Wir sprechen über "raus mit den Nazis" und dass wir demokratisch für queer freundliche Parteien wählen müssen. Weiterlesen →

Monday, February 17th, 2025Today, Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country's nuclear weapons stockpile so now he's trying to re-hire them; Zelensky refuses to hand over US access to Ukraine's minerals; three DOGEbags showed up to San Francisco City Hall demanding records; Trump bars federal funding for schools with COVID vaccine mandates; internal DOGE documents show Musk is trying to skirt the law with his DEI firings; the Trump administration has moved to drop transgender discrimination cases at the EEOC; protests erupt after the National Park Service removed the “TQ” from LGBTQ at the Stonewall National Monument; DOGE published classified information; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Thank You DeleteMeJoindeleteme.com/dailybeans code dailybeans for 20% off.Thank You PiqueLifeGet 20% off on the Radiant Skin Duo, plus a FREE starter kit at Piquelife.com/dailybeans.Stories:Zelenskyy declines to accept US proposal to access Ukraine's minerals - Emma Burrows | AP NewsElon Musk's DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website - Jennifer Bendery | HuffPost Trump bars federal funding to schools with COVID vaccine mandates - Anne Flaherty and Kelsey Walsh | ABC NewsProtests at Stonewall National Monument after "LGBTQ" changed to "LGB" on government website - Ali Bauman, Kristie Keleshian | CBS New YorkRecords show how DOGE planned Trump's DEI purge — and who gets fired next - Hannah Natanson and Chris Dehghanpoor | The Washington Post3 men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco City Hall, demand records -  Tim Fang | CBS NewsTrump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can't figure out how to reach them - Peter Alexander and Alexandra Marquez | NBC NewsTrump administration moves to drop transgender discrimination cases - Julian Mark and Beth Reinhard | The Washington PostGood Trouble:#TheMajorityProject: 100k Postcards to Congress – Signs Of JusticeFederal workers - feel free to email me at fedoath@pm.me and let me know what you're going to do, or just vent. I'm always here to listen. From The Good News“Pay the people - F*** Elon!”#TheMajorityProject: 100k Postcards to Congress – Signs Of JusticeLink to Bacchus' adoption pageReminder - you can see the pod pics if you become a Patron. The good news pics are at the bottom of the show notes of each Patreon episode! That's just one of the perks of subscribing! Check out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Subscribe for free to MuellerSheWrote on Substackhttps://muellershewrote.substack.comFollow AG and Dana on Social MediaDr. Allison Gill Substack|Muellershewrote, Twitter|@MuellerSheWrote, Threads|@muellershewrote, TikTok|@muellershewrote, IG|muellershewrote, BlueSky|@muellershewroteDana GoldbergTwitter|@DGComedy, IG|dgcomedy, facebook|dgcomedy, IG|dgcomedy, danagoldberg.com, BlueSky|@dgcomedyHave some good news; a confession; or a correction to share?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:The Daily Beans on Apple PodcastsWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?Supercasthttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/Patreon https://patreon.com/thedailybeansOr subscribe on Apple Podcasts with our affiliate linkThe Daily Beans on Apple Podcasts

Jonny and Craig discuss DEI. They start with a focus on the local, plugging artistic work in Carbondale with the upcoming Kleinau Theatre production of "Epiphanies," an adaptation of Flash Fiction by local writer, Epiphany Ferrell. They then turn to recent attacks by the Trump Administration on DEI and what that might mean for the university where they teach (SIU). They then discuss the Grammies and what this past weekend's music awards might teach us about the value of DEI. In the back half of the show, they examine the Trump Administration's high level placement of gay and lesbian conservatives in positions of significance. They discuss how this participates in a concerted effort to pare the Q and T off of LGBTQ, and why they are not having it. 

On the show this week, we discuss all things GAY about this year's Grammy awards. Plus, we discuss the brands we're supporting for their support of DEI initiatives, the state of the country, and we dive deeper into what we've been up to during our year long hiatus. Info Discussed: Twin Cities Pride Drops Target as Sponsor After Retail Chain Faces Backlash Over DEI CutbacksBrands that have promised to keep their DEI initiatives in placeTransgender people removed from State Department travel pageNLE Choppa shuts down gay-baiting accusations: “I am not a gay baiter because I showed my a**”Mexican singer Carín León addresses gay rumors after viral clip allegedly shows him kissing Espinoza PazWATCH: “Everything in this house is gay!” A first look at Andrew Ahn's ‘The Wedding Banquet'Idaho Republicans pass resolution urging Supreme Court to end marriage equalitySponsored by Color Me Gene coloring booksConnect with Us: Website:interminglepodcast.comInstagram:@interminglepodcastTikTok:@interminglepodcastYouTube:@interminglepodcastBluesky: @interminglepodcast.bsky.socialEmail:interminglepodcast@gmail.com

Welcome to The Consult a Counselor Series, a special segment of the Free to Be Mindful Podcast, where therapist and host Vanessa De Jesus Guzman, LPC, NCC, answers real-life parenting questions, helping you reduce the overwhelm, find joy, and live life intentionally so you don't lose your... well, you know.TODAY'S QUESTION:"How can I best support my child who identifies with the LGBTQ+ community?"In this heartfelt episode, Vanessa addresses how parents can best support their children who identify with the LGBTQ+ community. With insights rooted in compassion, she emphasizes the importance of unconditional love, education, and empathy. Vanessa also highlights the sobering statistic from The Trevor Project that LGBTQ+ youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers, underscoring the critical role parents play in providing acceptance and support.TUNE IN TO LEARN:Why leading with love and patience is crucial when supporting your childHow to navigate your own feelings and expectations as a parentThe importance of educating yourself to better empathize with your child's experiencePractical ways to connect your child with supportive communities and resourcesHow love and acceptance from parents can make a lasting impact on their child's well-beingTAKEAWAY MESSAGE:Every child deserves to feel loved and accepted for who they are. By leading with understanding, educating yourself, and connecting your child with the right support, you can create a foundation of safety and belonging that helps them thrive.Listen in, and remember... in a world where you can be anything, you're always free to be mindful!Send us a text120 COPING SKILLShttps://www.freetobemindful.com/podcast-120copingskillsCULTIVATE CALM CHALLENGEhttps://www.freetobemindful.com/podcast-cultivatingcalmchallengeSUBMIT QUESTIONS for CONSULT A COUNSELOR:https://qrco.de/consultacounselorWATCH THE PODCAST ON YOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/@counselorvdejesus GET THE MUSE HEADBAND AT A DISCOUNT!https://choosemuse.com/freetobemindfulUse this link to get 15% off your total when you purchase the amazing brain sensing headband that tells you when you're in a meditative state and guides you to improve your practice.STAY CONNECTED:Show Hashtag: #freetobemindfulpodcastWebsite: https://www.freetobemindful.com/podcastAll Social Channels: @counselorvdejesus DISCLAIMER:Free to Be Mindful Podcast episodes are for educational purposes only and should not be considered as or substituted for therapy or professional help from a licensed clinician.

So Gen-Z's alcohol consumption is at an all time low compared to other generations. But, the addiction replacing it is, in my opinion, much worse. WAPO's Staff tried to bully their boss, Jeff Bezos, and it worked exactly the way you think it would. Here's a trick question: Is President Trump terrifying LGB so-called T kids? Well, they certainly are terrified, but why?Episode Links:This generation loves porn: How is it affecting their perception of intimacy; Ivy Jenkins, ReporterHow Our Marriage Improved When I Recovered From Porn (VIDEO); Over the course of five years, Alex struggled to find recovery from his porn addiction while his wife suffered from betrayal trauma as a result…What Being In Porn Is Really Like (VIDEO); Being a porn performer isn't as glamorous as it seems. In the porn industry, the lines between abuse and consent are so blurred that there's no viable way to tell the difference. Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett says women are just fantasizing about being raped in locker rooms and bathrooms and that it actually never happens. How is this appalling disgrace of a woman even a member of Congress?CNN's Jim Acosta: “Jounalists exist to seek the truth and to hold the powerful accountable. We are not the enemy of the people, we are the defenders of the people.” ‘Deeply alarmed': Washington Post staff request meeting with Jeff Bezos; Journalists say in letter ‘trust has been lost' and seek in-person meeting with billionaire owner over paper's futureWatch as CNN criticized Elon Musk and suggested he made a Nazi salute during Trump's event at Capital One Arena, but they omitted his comments expressing sympathy, where he said, "My heart goes out to you." A CNN host stated, "It's a salute. It was quick. I think our viewers are smart and can judge for themselves, but it's certainly not something typically seen at American political rallies." However, Musk's gesture was not a Nazi salute; instead, it was a heartfelt expression directed toward the crowd Bishop Budde just pleaded with Donald Trump to protect LGB”T” children and not deport Illegal Aliens at the “bipartisan” Interfaith Prayer Service.  No, this is not a joke. She completely politicized the prayer service."I've given up speaking to Pres. Trump. We need to replace President Trump." Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington talks to @ABC News amid uproar over Pres. Trump's photo op in front of St. John's Church.Wisdom Nutrition https://trywisdomnow.com/toddStock up on Wisdom for 33% off plus free shipping. Visit trywisdomnow.com/toddAlan's Soaps https://www.alansartisansoaps.comUse coupon code ‘TODD' to save an additional 10% off the bundle price.Bonefrog https://bonefrogcoffee.com/toddMake Bonefrog Cold Brew at home!  Use code TODD at checkout to receive 10% off your first purchase and 15% on subscriptions.Bulwark Capital Bulwark Capital Management (bulwarkcapitalmgmt.com)Don't miss the next live Webinar Thursday January 30th at 3:30pm pacific.  Sign up today by calling 866-779-RISK or go to KnowYourRiskRadio.com.Renue Healthcare https://renue.healthcare/toddYour journey to a better life starts at Renue Healthcare. Visit renue.healthcare/Todd

J.D. Vance continues to embarrass the Mockingbird media. He should be teaching a master class to the Republicans on how to deal with these people. We'll also take a look at so-called pastors and religious leaders who think that Jesus Christ died for a form of DEI. Speaking of DEI, Savannah Guthrie did an interview with LGB so-called T and Q people. One of these young women, who's desperately trying to appear male, asked a very important question. Savannah Guthrie acted out being heartbroken, and maybe she was. But, this young woman's question is important for us to look at. I do my best to address it in a godly manner. Episode Links:JD Vance Schools New York Times Podcaster Who Compared Fidel Castro to GODDon Lemon Compares Evangelicals to Slave OwnersFlorida State Sen. Rosalind Osgood, a Democrat, says Christians should be especially outraged by opposition to DEI policies, because DEI is at the very heart of the gospel.Kamala Harris just told a crowd in PA that Trump will put them in campsWisdom Nutrition https://trywisdomnow.com/toddStock up on Wisdom for 33% off plus free shipping. Visit trywisdomnow.com/todd.Alan's Soaps https://www.alansartisansoaps.comUse coupon code ‘TODD' to save an additional 10% off the bundle price.Bonefrog https://bonefrogcoffee.com/toddMake Bonefrog Cold Brew at home!  Use code TODD at checkout to receive 10% off your first purchase and 15% on subscriptions.Bulwark Capital Bulwark Capital Management (bulwarkcapitalmgmt.com)Get a second opinion on the health of your retirement portfolio today.  Schedule your free Know Your Risk Portfolio review go to KnowYourRiskRadio.com today.My Pillow https://mypillow.com/toddUse promo code TODD to save big on the entire MyPillow classic Collection with the Standard starting at only $14.88.  Renue Healthcare https://renue.healthcare/toddYour journey to a better life starts at Renue Healthcare. Visit renue.healthcare/Todd

Kuwaitkriget åren 1990-91 har blivit en ikonisk konflikt under 1900-talet. Operation Desert storm har gått till historien som en av de mest effektiva militära operationerna någonsin. Färre soldater dog på koalitionssidan än vad beräknas vara normalt under övningar.Det var under Kuwaitkriget som världen fick lära känna stealthbombare, precisionsbombning och LGB:s (Laser guided bombs) och infraröd teknik. De irakiska soldaterna på sin sida, fick också förstå att krigets nya tekniker hade sprungit ifrån dem rejält, med stora förluster som följd. Var Kuwaitkriget tidpunkten när västmakternas militära förmågor stod på sin zenit?I dagens avsnitt av Militärhistoriepodden pratar Martin Hårdstedt och Peter Bennesved om Kuwaitkriget, eller som det ibland kallas: Operation Desert Storm.Kuwaitkriget har skrivits in i historieböckerna som en upptakt till det som skulle bli Irakkriget 2003, men även innan 9/11 satte den bollen i rullning, hade Kuwaitkriget blivit ikonisk för sin tid.Upptakten till Kuwaitkriget är omstridd, men har sitt ursprung i den Irakiske diktatorn och ledaren för Baathpartiet, Saddam Husseins imperialistiska ambitioner och oljepolitik. Efter ett misslyckat och blodigt krig mot Iran 1980-1988, hade den Irakiska staten svåra problem med sina statsfinanser. Konflikten hade också lett till ett stort tapp i oljepriserna som Kuwait, ett av världens mest oljerika länder, inte ville bidra till att öka. Kuwait överproducerade olja vilket höll priserna nere. Eftersom den irakiska ekonomin var helt beroende av intäkterna från oljan, tog Saddam Hussein Kuwaits agerande som förevändning för en invasion under 1990. På mindre än två dagar genomförde Saddam Hussein ockupationen, mer eller mindre helt utan motstånd.Reaktionen från väst blev hård med fördömanden och ekonomiska sanktioner. Under lång tid hade USA:s och Storbritanniens relationer med Irak och Saddam Hussein försämrats och invasionen av Kuwait blev till droppen som fick bägaren att rinna över. Från att ha aktivt stött Baathpartiet under kalla kriget fick man nu nog. Under sex månader genomfördes en enorm uppladdning av militära resurser i områdena runt Persiska viken. Saudiarabiens flygfält blev centrala utgångspunkter och under januari 1991 kunde operation Desert Storm igångsättas.Operation Desert storm har gått till historien som en av de mest effektiva militära operationerna någonsin. Med en kombinerad luft, havs och landstyrka rykte koalitionen fram och föste de Irakiska trupperna framför sig. Färre soldater dog på koalitionssidan än vad beräknas vara normalt under övningar. I luften dominerade amerikanska flyg fullständigt med hjälp av F117 ”Nighthawk” och LGB:s. Trots att irakierna hade utvecklat ett relativt sofistikerat luftvärnssystem blev de utslagna inom loppet av några timmar. Trots dessa framgångar blev dock operationen en pyrrhusseger. De vann striden, men förlorade kriget. Varför?Bild: Brittiska Challenger 1-stridsvagnar under det första Gulfkriget. Den brittiska Challenger-stridsvagnen var den mest effektiva stridsvagnen under Gulfkriget och led inga förluster samtidigt som den förstörde cirka 300 irakiska stridsvagnar under stridsoperationer. Wikipedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jonny and Heather start off the show by listening to a public statement made by local Carbondale City Councilwoman, Clare Killman, who has a proposal for Illinois to defend itself from federal assaults on bodily autonomy. They then compare the clarity and firmness of her response to Congressional Democrats who seem to lack a spine and are throwing LGB but particularly T under the bus. In the back half of the show they discuss access to healthcare and a revitalized interest in discussing predatory insurance companies. The lesson there is that the assalut on gender-affirming healthcare is really an assault on all of our healthcare.

Sign up for our ⁠newsletter, where we drop weekly knowledge bombs to help you make sense of defense! Speaking of knowledge bombs, Mike hosts Ed Cobleigh to talk about Paveway: the laser-guided bomb. Ed flew 375 combat missions during the Vietnam War in the F-4 Phantom and was one of the first people to drop the Paveway laser-guided bomb in combat. He earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses and went on to attend Fighter Weapons School, where he remained in order to stand up the guided weapons division and teach Paveway LGB employment. Ed's had a wild life beyond the Air Force and is now an author with 5 books (and counting). This episode covers not just the tech and tactics but also a first-person account of dropping LGBs in combat 56 years ago!   ---- Links • ⁠newsletter⁠⁠! • Support us on ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠! • ⁠Mike Benitez (LinkedIn)⁠ • ⁠Ed's website⁠ • ⁠Ed's books on Amazon⁠ ---- Follow us on... • ⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ ⁠• Instagram⁠⁠ • ⁠⁠X⁠⁠ • ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ • ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠   ---- Show Notes 00:34 intro 01:58 How Ed got to Vietnam 02:31 background of guided bombs 03:35 Paveway history 07:19 Project White Lightning 09:03 the first laser designator 10:19 Dropping the LGBs 12:15 results from the first tests 14:00 training for the first LGB drop 15:04 Zot nickname 17:49 Ed's 2nd tour 20:17 Navy gets Paveway 22:21 teaching LGBs at Nellis 23:45 Red Flag 25:16 Targeting Pods 26:57 Linebacker 1972 27:56 Dragons Jaw Bridge 29:51 Paveway's legacy 30:46 F-117 and Paveway 32:37 Paveway III 34:29 Paveway lawsuit 35:26 Ed's books 37:45 outro For those interested in #military #nationaldefense #warfare #nationalsecurity #defense #nationaldefense #tech #technology #defensetech #army #navy #airforce #innovation #F4 #vietnam #aviation #airplanes #aerospace

More than 800 LGB service members who were discharged under DADT—“Don't Ask, Don't Tell”—will now receive honorable discharges, the Department of Defense announced last week. (Trans individuals were not included as they were banned until recently from military service.) Then, Outfest, the long running Los Angeles LGBTQ film festival, is in financial free fall with finger pointing by the board and former top exec. It looks like the courts will call the fate of the event and personnel involved. Finally, the Dunedin Airport in New Zealand has erected signs limiting good-bye hugs to 3 minutes.Apple Podcasts: apple.co/1WwDBrCSpotify: spoti.fi/2pC19B1iHeart Radio: bit.ly/4aza5LWYouTube Music: bit.ly/43T8Y81Pandora: pdora.co/2pEfctjYouTube: bit.ly/1spAF5aAlso follow Tim and John on:Facebook: www.facebook.com/focusgroupradio

The travails of modern-day Israel tends to bring Abraham and his story to the fore in the minds of many Christians. Abraham is cherished by Jews, but the reality is that Abraham was a gentile! So, just who or what was Abraham's “identity” in? And in this arena of heartfelt identity and focus, many Christians seem to have key identity loyalty to varied issues—from “pro-life” to Israel to immigration. But what should American Christians' identity be tied to? And what identity was Abraham tied to…and does that matter? Join Kevin as we dive into “choosing to live out your identity.” // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transcript at whitestone.org.

J.D. Vance continues to embarrass the Mockingbird media. He should be teaching a master class to the Republicans on how to deal with these people. We'll also take a look at so-called pastors and religious leaders who think that Jesus Christ died for a form of DEI. Speaking of DEI, Savannah Guthrie did an interview with LGB so-called T and Q people. One of these young women, who's desperately trying to appear male, asked a very important question. Savannah Guthrie acted out being heartbroken, and maybe she was. But, this young woman's question is important for us to look at. I do my best to address it in a godly manner. Episode Links:JD Vance Schools New York Times Podcaster Who Compared Fidel Castro to GODDon Lemon Compares Evangelicals to Slave OwnersFlorida State Sen. Rosalind Osgood, a Democrat, says Christians should be especially outraged by opposition to DEI policies, because DEI is at the very heart of the gospel.Kamala Harris just told a crowd in PA that Trump will put them in campsAlan's Soaps https://www.alansartisansoaps.comUse coupon code ‘TODD' to save an additional 10% off the bundle price.Bioptimizers https://bioptimizers.com/toddStart your journey to better health with MassZymes. Visit bioptimizers.com/todd today to get your MassZymes 10% off.  Bonefrog https://bonefrogcoffee.com/toddMake Bonefrog Cold Brew at home!  Use code TODD at checkout to receive 10% off your first purchase and 15% on subscriptions.Bulwark Capital Bulwark Capital Management (bulwarkcapitalmgmt.com)Learn about Bulwark's strategies with their FREE Common Cents Investing Guide. Get yours by calling 866-779-RISK or go to KnowYourRiskRadio.com.Renue Healthcare https://renue.healthcare/toddYour journey to a better life starts at Renue Healthcare. Visit renue.healthcare/Todd

Last weekend LGB Alliance Conference was attacked by Trans activists releasing insects at their event. We discuss why LGBA inspires such ire from Trans activists and how this attack was a form of resent-filled revenge after losing Self-ID with the Labour government. We also consider why young women are attracted to Transgender activism and why young T and Q activists are so committed to attempting to attach themselves to LGB (voyeuristic proximity to sexuality). Specifically, middle-class TRA women can be understood to be petulant, brattish 'scabs' that have no solidarity with other women who 'go on strike' against gender. Another aspect is how socially underdeveloped young women are attracted to transgenderism because it's a form of rejecting adult sexuality and adulthood, in a similar kind of way anorexia and political lesbianism are. Plus, devaluing other women as a defence, growing up a tall girl, the abject, the shortsightedness of being young, opting for stunts when can't organise mass protests, and the phenomenon of 'Trans until graduation'.

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Jonny is on his own this week, recording the show on Labor Day Monday. In the front half of the show, he details "autogynephilia" as a debunked pseudo-scientific theory still popular among the gender critical and transphobes. It is one of the ways LGB (No T, No Q) folks bracket out trans experience from "gay" experience. He also details its cousin, the myth of "Transing the Gay Away." In the back half of the show, he leans into his own queer story and evolution into understaning of his gender nonconforming, nonbinary identity. At the core of LGBTQ rights, he argues, is trans advocacy and the fight for gender diversity.

* Mets-toi en présence de Dieu, pour essayer de Lui parler. * Tu disposes de 10 minutes, pas plus : va jusqu'au bout, même si tu te distrais. * Persévère. Prends ton temps et laisse l'Esprit Saint agir 'à petit feu'. Un passage de l'Évangile, une idée, une anecdote, un prêtre qui s'adresse à toi et au Seigneur, et t'invite à entrer dans l'intimité de Dieu. Choisis le meilleur moment, imagine que tu es avec Lui, et appuie sur play pour commencer. Toutes les infos sur notre site : www.10minutesavecjesus.org Contact : 10minavecjesus@gmail.com LGB

* Mets-toi en présence de Dieu, pour essayer de Lui parler. * Tu disposes de 10 minutes, pas plus : va jusqu'au bout, même si tu te distrais. * Persévère. Prends ton temps et laisse l'Esprit Saint agir 'à petit feu'. Un passage de l'Évangile, une idée, une anecdote, un prêtre qui s'adresse à toi et au Seigneur, et t'invite à entrer dans l'intimité de Dieu. Choisis le meilleur moment, imagine que tu es avec Lui, et appuie sur play pour commencer. Toutes les infos sur notre site : www.10minutesavecjesus.org Contact : 10minavecjesus@gmail.com LGB

The cinematic apocalypse has finally arrived, and the self-proclaimed film aficionados on Youtube are left scratching their heads, bewildered by the demise of the movie theater industry. They gather around the digital campfire, swapping half-baked theories and simplistic economic platitudes, desperate to explain their latest box office flops. As they rummage through their mental Rolodex of excuses, they inevitably land on the COVID-19 pandemic, positing that it somehow conditioned audiences to prefer the comfort of streaming services. They also bemoan the frustrations of the theater-going experience, citing the inconsiderate chatterboxes who dare to disrupt their cinematic reverie. But, of course, these are just symptoms of a far more insidious disease. The real elephant in the room, the one they dare not speak its name, is the culture war. A Lily Bit is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.It's almost as if they're willfully oblivious to the fact that the movie industry has been hijacked by ideologues peddling a toxic brand of identity politics, churning out soulless, agenda-driven drivel that insults the intelligence of audiences worldwide. The notion that recent big budgeted flops were somehow a victim of circumstance, rather than calculated attempts to foist a divisive, racist narrative on an unsuspecting public, is nothing short of laughable. The fact that they can't see the forest for the trees, that they're more concerned with preserving their own woke marshmallow world than confronting the elephant in the room, is a damning indictment of their critical faculties.The willful ignorance of these film critics reminds us that the culture war is a reality that many are desperate to ignore. By dismissing the notion that people are boycotting Hollywood on principle, they're essentially sticking their heads in the sand, pretending that the seismic shifts in the cultural landscape aren't happening. It's a staggering display of cognitive dissonance, a refusal to acknowledge the very real and very deliberate attempts to reshape the cultural narrative.And yet, this obliviousness is not unique to these film critics. There are countless individuals who choose to remain blissfully unaware of the culture war, opting instead for a comfortable, apolitical existence. They see themselves as above the fray, superior to those who dare to engage with the messy, complicated world of politics and social issues. But this is nothing more than a coping mechanism, a way to avoid confronting the uncomfortable truth that our civilization is indeed breaking apart at the seams.The culture war is not some fringe phenomenon, a sideshow to the main event. It is the main event. It is the deliberate, systematic attempt to dismantle the very fabric of our society, to replace traditional values and norms with a radical, ideologically-driven agenda. And everyone, regardless of their political leanings or level of engagement, will be affected by the consequences of this war. The chaos that's unfolding is not random; it's a carefully orchestrated campaign to reshape the cultural landscape in the image of the radical “left.” To ignore this reality is to invite disaster, to sleepwalk into a future that's being deliberately engineered to be hostile to traditional values and freedoms.The world of film, often dismissed as a trivial, is in fact a fascinating case study in cultural conflict. It's a window into the ideological underpinnings of our society, a reflection of the values and narratives that shape our collective consciousness. And what's more, it's a powerful tool for establishment propaganda, a means of disseminating carefully crafted messages to a captive audience.The catastrophic failure of Disney's attempts to inject woke cultism into the Star Wars franchise is a prime example of this phenomenon. The Acolyte is a laughable disaster, a mess of morally relative lesbian witches in space that's been universally panned by audiences. And while I have no issue with a lesbian main character in and of itself, the problem arises when the sole purpose of including such a character is to pander to a specific agenda. This agenda has only served to create a toxic environment where I, as a lesbian myself, feel increasingly hesitant to even remotely mention that I have no interest in men. The constant bombardment of forced representation and virtue signaling has led to a society that's growingly annoyed and hostile, making it a spectacle that's not only insulting to me, but also damaging to the very group of people it's supposed to represent.Instead of acknowledging their own creative bankruptcy, Disney and the media are quick to shift the blame onto the consumers themselves. It's not that the product is bad, you see; it's that you, the audience, are somehow flawed for not wanting to watch it.This is the classic playbook of the propagandist: when the message falls flat, blame the messenger. When the product fails to resonate, blame the consumer for not being enlightened enough to appreciate it. It's a stunning display of elitist condescension, a patronizing attitude that assumes the audience is too stupid to know what's good for them. Newsflash! If people don't want to watch your racist, DEI-infused drivel, it's not because they're bigots or philistines; it's because your product is garbage! But of course, that's a truth that Disney and the media are desperate to avoid, because it would require them to confront the abyssal failure of their own ideological agenda.A Lily Bit is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The communistic erasure of consumer choice is a phenomenon that has been unfolding before our very eyes, as major corporations have embarked on a relentless crusade to impose far-left extremism on the Western world. The past few years have seen a tidal wave of woke warfare, with companies like Bud Light sacrificing their customer base on the altar of ideological purity. The sheer audacity of this corporate insurgency is staggering, as they seek to dictate what we think, what we believe, and what we value.The annual spectacle of “Pride Month” is a case in point. This is not a grassroots movement, but a carefully orchestrated campaign by international corporations and non-profit organizations to impose their ideology on the masses. The LGB community, having already secured equal rights under the law, is now being exploited as a Trojan horse to push a radical agenda that aims to dismantle traditional values and norms. This agenda seeks to supplant them with a trans ideology rooted in pseudoscience, which has become a gathering place for individuals seeking to escape the realities of their own failed existences. The proliferation of this ideology has led to the creation of a lucrative industry, where individuals can accumulate student loand debt in pursuit of a degree that enables them to expound on the fabricated differences between 700 non-existent genders. This is a sickening example of how a once legitimate movement that had already been accepted by society has been hijacked by a fringe ideology that prioritizes the indulgence of perverted fantasy and giving refuge and paying court to sick individuals, tarnishing the reputation of everyone else.The same can be said of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives, which are nothing more than a corporate attempt to inject woke politics into every aspect of our lives. These initiatives are not about promoting genuine diversity or inclusivity, but about creating a culture of ideological conformity, where dissent is not tolerated and free speech is curtailed.The most insidious aspect of this corporate insurgency is the way it seeks to dictate morality to the public. Companies are now positioning themselves as the arbiters of our social norms, telling us what is acceptable and what is not. They are creating a culture of moral blackmail, where those who refuse to conform to their ideology are shamed, ostracized, and punished. This is not the free market at work; this is corporate totalitarianism, where the interests of the few are imposed on the many.The question is, who gave these corporations the right to dictate our values and morals? Who appointed them as the guardians of our social norms? The answer, of course, is no one. They have simply assumed this role, using their vast resources and influence to impose their ideology on the world. It's time to push back against this corporate insurgency and reclaim our right to think, believe, and value what we choose.The corporate oligarchy has indeed undergone a profound transformation, one that has turned the traditional business-consumer relationship on its head. Gone are the days when companies catered to the needs and desires of their customers, striving to create products that would delight and satisfy them. Today, corporations have adopted a paternalistic and authoritarian approach, treating consumers as indentured servants who must be told what to think, feel, and believe.This is a manifestation of the socialist construct that underlies the corporate world. No longer content to simply manipulate consumers through clever marketing, corporations now seek to dictate their values, their politics, and their very identity. The customer is no longer king; the corporation is the supreme arbiter of what is acceptable and what is not.The consequences of this shift are glaring. When consumers dare to push back against the woke ideology or DEI messaging that corporations are so fond of, they are met with a vicious backlash. The company, aided and abetted by the establishment media, unleashes a torrent of abuse and vitriol, labeling the dissenting customers as racists, bigots, misogynists, or fascists. The message is clear: conform to our ideology, or be cast out into the wilderness.And when the inevitable happens, and the corporation's products fail to resonate with consumers, who do they blame? Not themselves, of course. No, they blame the “bigots and racists” who dared to resist their ideological agenda. This is a classic case of psychological projection, where the corporation's own failures are attributed to the very people they are trying to control.The irony is that corporations are still trying to peddle the myth that they are champions of free market capitalism, when in reality they are nothing more than instruments of social control. They are the vanguard of a new form of totalitarianism, one that seeks to regulate every aspect of our lives, from what we think to what we buy. And if we don't comply, we will be punished, ostracized, and demonized.The real reason why corporations seem to have abandoned their traditional pursuit of profits and customer satisfaction is a question that has been puzzling many observers. While it's true that these companies may be self-destructing, there are alternative theories that suggest a more sinister and deliberate strategy at play.Theory 1 proposes that the ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) framework, which was initially touted as a tool for promoting sustainable and responsible business practices, may have been a beta test for a more comprehensive and coercive system. What if the ultimate goal is to create a communist-style system where governments and central banks become the primary source of funding for ESG-compliant companies? In this scenario, corporations that toe the line on progressive politics would be rewarded with perpetual bailouts, while those that don't would be allowed to collapse.Theory 2 suggests that corporate leaders may have been informed that the system is on the verge of collapse, and that profits no longer matter. If the economy is indeed heading towards a Great Depression-like destabilization, then it's possible that CEOs have abandoned their traditional mandate to pursue profits and have instead become propaganda peddlers. This would explain why they seem to be more focused on promoting woke ideology than on creating products that consumers actually want.Theory 3 proposes that the concept of the customer as an indentured servant to the corporation is a stepping stone towards a more Orwellian future. The idea of the “Sharing Economy” promoted by the World Economic Forum, where government provides everything and individuals own nothing, may be the ultimate goal. In this scenario, the public would be forced to settle for whatever products and services they are given, without any choice or autonomy. The current trend of shaming consumers into accepting whatever products they are given may be a way of acclimating the populace to this kind of culture.All three theories suggest that the current behavior of corporations is not just a result of incompetence or short-sightedness, but rather a deliberate strategy to create a new kind of economic and social order. One that is characterized by a lack of choice, a lack of autonomy, and a complete dependence on the state.The end game is a bleak one, where the lines between corporate and government power are blurred, and the individual is reduced to a mere serf, forced to accept whatever is given to them without question or complaint. The Sharing Economy, with its promise of convenience and efficiency, is actually a Trojan horse for a system of control and oppression.The culture war is not just about abstract ideas or ideologies; it's about the very fabric of our society. It's about whether we want to live in a world where individuals are free to make their own choices, or one where the state and corporations dictate every aspect of our lives.The woke cult, with its emphasis on groupthink and conformity, is a key component of this dystopian system. It's a way of conditioning people to accept the unacceptable, to surrender their individuality and autonomy to the collective. And those who resist, who refuse to conform, are labeled as enemies of the state.But there are still those who see through this charade, who recognize the evil that is being perpetrated in the name of progress and social justice. They are the ones who are fighting back, who are boycotting the woke cult and refusing to participate in the Sharing Economy. They are the ones who are holding on to their freedom, their individuality, and their humanity.The skeptics, who remain ignorant of this war, may think that it doesn't affect them, that they are above the fray. But they are wrong. This war is about the very future of our society, and everyone will be affected by its outcome.How you can support my writing:* Restack, like and share this post via email, text, and social media* Tip me a bug-free meal with Ko-Fi* Buy a discount subscriptionThank you; your support keeps me writing and helps me pay the bills.

* Mets-toi en présence de Dieu, pour essayer de Lui parler. * Tu disposes de 10 minutes, pas plus : va jusqu'au bout, même si tu te distrais. * Persévère. Prends ton temps et laisse l'Esprit Saint agir 'à petit feu'. Un passage de l'Évangile, une idée, une anecdote, un prêtre qui s'adresse à toi et au Seigneur, et t'invite à entrer dans l'intimité de Dieu. Choisis le meilleur moment, imagine que tu es avec Lui, et appuie sur play pour commencer. Toutes les infos sur notre site : www.10minutesavecjesus.org Contact : 10minavecjesus@gmail.com LGB

* Mets-toi en présence de Dieu, pour essayer de Lui parler. * Tu disposes de 10 minutes, pas plus : va jusqu'au bout, même si tu te distrais. * Persévère. Prends ton temps et laisse l'Esprit Saint agir 'à petit feu'. Un passage de l'Évangile, une idée, une anecdote, un prêtre qui s'adresse à toi et au Seigneur, et t'invite à entrer dans l'intimité de Dieu. Choisis le meilleur moment, imagine que tu es avec Lui, et appuie sur play pour commencer. Toutes les infos sur notre site : www.10minutesavecjesus.org Contact : 10minavecjesus@gmail.com LGB

* Mets-toi en présence de Dieu, pour essayer de Lui parler. * Tu disposes de 10 minutes, pas plus : va jusqu'au bout, même si tu te distrais. * Persévère. Prends ton temps et laisse l'Esprit Saint agir 'à petit feu'. Un passage de l'Évangile, une idée, une anecdote, un prêtre qui s'adresse à toi et au Seigneur, et t'invite à entrer dans l'intimité de Dieu. Choisis le meilleur moment, imagine que tu es avec Lui, et appuie sur play pour commencer. Toutes les infos sur notre site : www.10minutesavecjesus.org Contact : 10minavecjesus@gmail.com LGB

* Mets-toi en présence de Dieu, pour essayer de Lui parler. * Tu disposes de 10 minutes, pas plus : va jusqu'au bout, même si tu te distrais. * Persévère. Prends ton temps et laisse l'Esprit Saint agir 'à petit feu'. Un passage de l'Évangile, une idée, une anecdote, un prêtre qui s'adresse à toi et au Seigneur, et t'invite à entrer dans l'intimité de Dieu. Choisis le meilleur moment, imagine que tu es avec Lui, et appuie sur play pour commencer. Toutes les infos sur notre site : www.10minutesavecjesus.org Contact : 10minavecjesus@gmail.com LGB

People are starting to wake up in Prideland and realize it is not all sunshine and rainbows. Host Joseph Backholm is joined by Elizabeth Woning, co-founder and director of the CHANGED Movement, for a conversation surrounding the men and women who walk away from the LGBT community. Even though data shows that the gay community is growing, so is the number of people who are choosing to walk away and change the way that they live. Elizabeth shares how CHANGED got its start, why pride celebrations are more “muted” this year and the interesting relationship in the LGBT community between the LGB activists and the T activists. Listen now to better understand Pride! Read ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Washington Stand⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, featuring news and commentary from a biblical worldview. Published by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Family Research Council⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

People are starting to wake up in Prideland and realize it is not all sunshine and rainbows. Host Joseph Backholm is joined by Elizabeth Woning, co-founder and director of the CHANGED Movement, for a conversation surrounding the men and women who walk away from the LGBT community. Even though data shows that the gay community is growing, so is the number of people who are choosing to walk away and change the way that they live. Elizabeth shares how CHANGED got its start, why pride celebrations are more “muted” this year and the interesting relationship in the LGBT community between the LGB activists and the T activists. Listen now to better understand Pride! Read ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Washington Stand⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, featuring news and commentary from a biblical worldview. Published by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Family Research Council⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

People are starting to wake up in Prideland and realize it is not all sunshine and rainbows. Host Joseph Backholm is joined by Elizabeth Woning, co-founder and director of the CHANGED Movement, for a conversation surrounding the men and women who walk away from the LGBT community. Even though data shows that the gay community is growing, so is the number of people who are choosing to walk away and change the way that they live. Elizabeth shares how CHANGED got its start, why pride celebrations are more “muted” this year and the interesting relationship in the LGBT community between the LGB activists and the T activists. Listen now to better understand Pride! Read ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Washington Stand⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, featuring news and commentary from a biblical worldview. Published by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Family Research Council⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

In honor of "PRIDE" month, please join me for a conversation with Dr. Lucy Bucher- she is a passionate OB/GYN and has been a fierce advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community.We talk about breast cancer and its impact in the LGBTQIA+ community.Risk factorsCauses of disparities in care and how we can mitigate themBreast Cancer symptomsBreast cancer screening in:LGB women Cis-gender guidelinesTransgender menTransgender WomenHow to remove barriers to screenings and be your own advocate?You don't want to miss this amazing episode.Stay Connected with Dr. Deepa Halaharvi:TikTok: @breastdoctorInstagram: @drdhalaharviTBCP Instagram: @thebreastcancerpodcastWebsite: https://drdeepahalaharvi.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@deepahalaharvi5917Instagram: @thebreastcancerpodcast

Eris Young is author of the go-to book on everything non-binary. They break down the basics of the gender binary, painting a more expansive, inclusive, and accurate picture of human identity. What is it like to be nonbinary? What challenges do people face? What about healthcare for nonbinary folks? All this and more, as we talk to Eris Young about their book, They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary and Genderqueer Identities. About the Guest Eris Young is a queer, transgender writer of fiction and nonfiction. Their books They/Them/Their: A guide to nonbinary and genderqueer identities (2019) and Ace Voices: What it means to be asexual, aromantic, demi or gray-ace (2022), are published by Jessica Kingsley. They were the writer-in-residence at Lighthouse, Edinburgh's radical bookshop, from 2019 to 2022, in 2020 received a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award for fiction, and are a 2023 IPSE Freelancer Award finalist, in the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion category. Transcript ERIS YOUNG: When you step away from the norm in any way, it's going to influence the way people interface with you, the way people treat you, the assumptions they make about you when they see you. I think it just made my childhood that much more complicated. BLAIR HODGES: That's Eris Young, and the norm they stepped away from in middle school that caused some difficulty was the gender binary—the idea that there are two discrete genders, boy and girl, man and woman, end of story. Today there's a growing chorus of scientists, biologists, psychologists, and other specialists who are making it clearer than ever that the gender binary doesn't capture the diversity of human experiences. This includes trans people and all who don't fall so neatly into one category or another. In this episode, Eris Young joins us to talk about their book, They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary and Genderqueer Identities. There's no one right way to be a guy or a girl, or someone else entirely. I'm Blair Hodges, and this is Family Proclamations. REACHING THE AUDIENCE (01:31) BLAIR HODGES: Eris Young, welcome to Family Proclamations. It's great to have you on the show. ERIS YOUNG: Thanks for having me, Blair. I'm really happy to be here. BLAIR HODGES: We're talking about your book, They/Them/Their. These are pronouns obviously, and they are pronouns you use. Your introduction to this book starts off with a glossary of sixteen terms. But you manage to actually keep it interesting! We'll talk about those terms, but I think it says a lot that you had to spend time right off the bat with direct definitions. Talk a little bit about that decision for the book. ERIS YOUNG: It is a bit odd. You don't often start off with a dictionary or a glossary. Because of the nature of the project and when it came out—this book came out in 2019 and I started writing it around 2017—and at that time we were at the very beginning of our understanding, at least in the Anglophone West, of nonbinary and genderqueer identities and trans identity in the mainstream. For the book I wanted to get into the nitty gritty. I wanted to go deep as quickly as possible, but it meant there was a lot of explaining I had to do in a short space of time in order to be able to get past that basic stuff. I'll talk a little bit later how I feel about glossaries and dictionaries and how that's changed over time. It's very much a product of where I was at and where we as a society were at when the book was written. BLAIR HODGES: You say your target audience is people who want to understand but might not have the means yet. This isn't necessarily for people that have already been in all the online discussions about nonbinary and different gender identities, but for people trying to wrap their minds around it. It can be a little intimidating for people that aren't used to those discussions in those spaces, and you identify some of reasons. It might feel like people are afraid of making a mistake so they're afraid to ask questions, or they might feel like they're virtue signaling if they're going overboard and trying to show how knowledgeable they are. Tell me a little bit more about those dynamics because your target audience was for interested and well-meaning people that just want to learn more. ERIS YOUNG: It is funny how much has changed in the time since I wrote the book. It's only been a couple of years, so when I first wrote it I was very much—and I think that's the strength of the book—I was really doing what I could to reach as many people as possible. That meant I had to do a little bit of explaining and a little bit of making sure my readers were on the same page as me from the very beginning. I've seen the book described as “accessible.” I've had a lot of cis people come up to me and enthuse about the way they were able to use the book to get to know the nonbinary people in their life, or to make their workplace more inclusive. I really value having been able to do that for people. BLAIR HODGES: You mentioned cisgender folks. I'm cisgender. For people who aren't familiar with the terminology, that means my gender identity aligns with the sex I was assigned at birth, the assumptions people made based on what my body looked like back then. I fit into a typical male identity and my body aligns with that. The term “cis” is basically trying to get people to think about how cisgender itself is also an identity. To be nonbinary is an identity in the same way being cisgender is an identity, and it's trying to avoid hierarchies of comparison of better than or less than. It seems to serve an equalizing purpose. ERIS YOUNG: It's absolutely an equalizer, and it's absolutely a way of challenging this otherness. Trans and gender non-conforming people, we tend to get placed into this "other" category, but really it's about repositioning cis and trans as categories of being on an equal footing with each other. ERIS GETS PERSONAL (05:54) BLAIR HODGES: We'll expand on definitions as we go, but let's start here with more about your own personal biography. This book explores your own experiences. You're very personal here. You talk about what it was like growing up. You say you realized as a young child there was something different, or something uncomfortable maybe about how you were encouraged to act and dress and speak and play as a child. Tell people a little bit about how that felt, about how you were. ERIS YOUNG: This is something I've thought about a lot over the years. I think in comparison to a lot of genderqueer and nonbinary people I was fairly lucky. My parents are very liberal in the sense of being quite flexible. They weren't very prescriptive. I did karate. I did art lessons. I managed to avoid a lot of the gendered activities—not to say I was very good at karate or art! I dodged a bullet a lot of people in my position don't always manage to avoid, so I'm very grateful to my parents for that. When I was a little kid, especially an adolescent and in high school, I did feel different. This has to do with my sexuality, my gender, my neurodivergent stuff going on. There were a lot of times when if the adults in my life had had the opportunity to read a book or watch a TV program about transgender or about nonbinary identity, that would have helped me a lot. This is what I'm trying to give to the nonbinary children, the trans children of the people reading my book. I don't think it's going to make a huge difference, but I have had quite a few parents reach out to me, and I've had some intense emotional conversations with parents who, as you say, they're really well-meaning and they're trying to understand, but they've been taught their whole lives gender and sex work a certain way. They're finding it difficult to try and engage while trying not to hurt the nonbinary or trans person in their life. PARENTAL APPROACHES (08:20) BLAIR HODGES: That's right. There are a lot of different reactions parents can have, coming from a lot of different places. Some people might have very rigid ideas about sex and gender being inflexible, and gender assigned at birth is paramount, and so any kind of deviation from that is uncomfortable, or even evil or whatever to them. Then you have people who are more open to it but might see social discrimination and might worry for their kids if they're nonbinary or trans, and they worry about discrimination kids would face. Or maybe even the dreams a parent has for their kids, where in theory they're alright with trans identities or nonbinary identities, but they also have built this story of who their kid was going to be and then they have to let go of that story. I think parental anxiety can come from a lot of different directions and it's not limited to "conservative" or traditionalist, anti-trans feelings, but can also come from people who are open and believe and accept trans identities as well. ERIS YOUNG: I think so much of parenthood and family is—you know, we're so close to it. For some people family and parenthood is the most fundamental and personal thing in their life. That means ego plays into it a lot, whether we want it to or not. I see this talking to a lot of asexual and aromantic people as well. We'll have parents who are good, supportive, loving parents, but when they encounter something that disrupts their own ideas of what their family should look like, it can cause a lot of conflict. Something I'm really hoping for, an idea that makes me quite emotional that I'm hoping for the future, is I'd like to see more parents approach their child's gender journey as not a challenge to them as a parent or as not an obstacle to their idea of their child's happy and stable future. Instead, I'd like to see parents approaching their child's gender exploration and potential transition as an adventure you're going on together as a family. I think for a lot of people this practically isn't possible because society right now makes it hard to be trans or nonbinary or genderqueer. I'm hoping we can have incremental social change, such that in ten or twenty or fifty years we can celebrate it when our children decide they're something other than they were assigned at birth. I think that's a beautiful potential future. I'd like to work towards that. SOCIAL PRESSURES (11:23) BLAIRHODGES: In the book you also talk about some of the ways you felt anxiety, even though your parents were generally supportive and, it seems, flexible and open to different things. You also felt anxiety around public restrooms or different social situations. What were the pressures? Did you feel pressure to conform to the gender binary that you had to resist? What did that pressure look like? ERIS YOUNG: No matter who you are, there's a lot of pressure on you to conform to the sex assignment you were given at birth. Restrooms is a thing. We talk about it a lot. I still have to navigate that, although nowadays when you're an adult you can get away with pretty much anything by walking in and looking like you know what you're doing. But as a kid I was—I don't want to say a little weirdo, but I was quite a shy child. [laughter] I was a nervous little kid. Not really knowing anything about the community that I would later enter, it added this extra layer of complication. I had a good childhood, but I was a funny little guy. I've definitely had some anxiety throughout my life, a lot to do with being neurodivergent. What did it really look like? It kind of really started to come to the fore when I was in middle and high school, so in my early to mid-teens in California, in Orange County. We didn't have strict dress codes or anything. I was dressing in boy's clothes from high school. I think it more influenced the way people treated me and looked at me. When you step away from the norm in any way, it's going to influence the way people interface with you, the way people treat you, the assumptions they make about you when they see you. I think it just made my childhood that much more complicated. BLAIR HODGES: This speaks to the idea of nonbinary people being thought of as egocentric or self-obsessed in presentation and stuff, and what interests me about you is you were not like that. It seems like you didn't want attention. And you also needed to express your gender identity in a way that made you feel comfortable in your body and in yourself. But you weren't going for attention. It seems like if anything, you wanted to not get extra attention. ERIS YOUNG: It's funny because that is the stereotype, isn't it? Pretty much all of the trans and gender non-conforming people I know, myself included, we're just trying to live our lives and because we're now able to be visible and open in a way we never were before, going from invisible to visible is now being transformed into this perception of us being attention-seeking. When you look at the ways some cis people act out and perform their gender, like don't even get me started! It's very funny we do get painted with this paintbrush and it all has to do with visibility and change. It's not that we're visible or trying to be obnoxious about it, it's that we exist and our existence challenges the status quo and makes people think about things they haven't had to think about before. BIOLOGICAL SEX AND GENDER (15:12) BLAIR HODGES: Your book also drills down on gender, sex, and the binary. For people who aren't familiar with this way of thinking about sex and gender your explanation is really helpful. The most common understanding of sex and gender is a binary understanding. The idea is gender is determined by a person's physical body parts, their body morphology, maybe chromosomes, or whatever. That's also supposed to determine sexual orientation as well. Gender identity, sexual orientation, and sex are all thought to be one singular thing. In your book you talk about how humans are loosely a “sexually dimorphic” species. There is a general view of a sex male, a sex female, and so it's easy to understand how we've arrived at these assumptions about sex and gender. But you complicate that for us. Talk about why that binary understanding is problematic. ERIS YOUNG: This is a fun question with a lot of deep potential. One of the things that happened for me, while I was writing They/Them/Their the more research I did, the more it complicated that understanding. I was a twenty-year-old starting to write this book and I approached it with an understanding of: There is biological sex and some people feel they are not whatever they were assigned at birth. In reality, the more you look at it and the more research you do, and the more you look at history and actually biology, that rigid, contiguous binary we've constructed and we've put on this pedestal in our society, it starts to crumble really quickly. It kind of broke my brain and put it back together, and that's part of why I'm so pleased I was able to write this book when I did because it made a lot of things make much more sense to me very quickly. For example, I'm picturing three boxes with arrows between them, and you've got biological sex equals gender equals sexuality. Well, a good hundred years ago we started to disrupt this idea of gender equals sexuality. There are all sorts of different kinds of historical categorizations of homosexual people—as inverts, hermaphrodites. These are the quite pathological words placed onto us or claimed by us at different times. We've pretty much disrupted that connection. We've also managed to start—with some setbacks, there's still backlash against homosexuality, but we're starting to be able to decouple this idea of biological sex equals gender. We've got trans people, we've got nonbinary people, all sorts of people who aren't cis. We're also starting to come to understand biological sex is not as much a scientific reality as we're taught to believe, or as some people would want us to believe. This was something revelatory for me as I was writing the book, is it turns out that intersex conditions—so people who are born with what we might call ambiguous genitalia, or secondary sex characteristics that develop differently from how we would expect them to based on that person's assigned sex, those ways of being, and there's actually dozens of different ways a person can be intersex—they're way, way, way more common than we're led to believe. I didn't know a person could be intersex. I didn't know that was a thing until my late teens. Mid to late teens. BLAIR HODGES: Me too. It may have even been my twenties. ERIS YOUNG: No one talks about it. The only way I was able to learn about it is through the trans community because historically trans and intersex communities have been allied and we share a lot of lived experiences, though we're not always overlapping Venn diagram circles. Intersex people exist and are around and we know them. It's not a marginal experience by any means. BLAIR HODGES: That's even on a chromosomal level, right? It's not the case that it's a simple XX, XY. There are different combinations. ERIS YOUNG: There are women who would present as cis women and who would never be seen as anything other than a cis woman who have a Y chromosome. THE BINARY IMPULSE TO CLOCK (20:30) BLAIR HODGES: Alright, so I think one of the reasons this can be hard for people to grasp is, I think humans in general need these shortcut ways to sum each other up. We want to be able to look at each other, we want visual cues, and just to be able to get a picture of who a person is. Perhaps even a lot of transgender folks, I think, want to present on one end of the binary or another. There's still a lot of social pressure or social expectations or social conditioning. To transition kind of happens on a scale, some people really want to transition in a way that helps them present as female, very female, feminine, femme. Other people want to present as masc, masculine, more male. But nonbinary folks don't always really feel comfortable at either end of that pole. Here's a quote from you: "A genderqueer person will most likely have been raised as either male or female, and most likely will have either a penis or vagina and attendant chromosomes and hormones, but will not feel that either of these labels suits them wholly. They might feel that both or neither of those labels applies." So even with many trans folks the binary is strong, and we have genderqueer or nonbinary folks that challenged that polarity. ERIS YOUNG: That's why we're here, isn't it? We do like categories. We like binaries. As people, we like to be able to make quick assumptions. I don't know if that's an inherent thing for human brains, or if it's something we're taught, but it does take a lot of work to get beyond. For me, I had to do a lot of thinking, a lot of research, a lot of writing and talking to people. I had to be on Tumblr for quite a long time before I could get my brain out of these rigid categories I had been thinking in. In a way that's a privilege, but the more you do it, it's a skill. It's critical thinking. This way of being able to question the categories you're given. As a nonbinary person, I'm quite grateful I'm able to exist in between. I feel like it gives me a lot of freedom to play, to question, to challenge. BLAIR HODGES: I think the more nonbinary and genderqueer folks we get to know, the more automatic it can become. I think even with pronouns. I have a coworker, they/them pronouns, and they're the second person I've spent a lot of time with. It took a little while to be able to automatically think—instead of “translating” it, instead of looking at them and having to decide to use their preferred pronoun—to it becoming automatic. I also found that using they/them more generally helped do that as well. Referring to people as they/them more broadly. Familiarity helps a lot, but also it can be challenging because we don't necessarily know we're running into people who might be nonbinary all the time. As you say in the book, it's hard to even get estimates of how many people identify as nonbinary. That's part of the challenge. ERIS YOUNG: I agree. That's one of the problems. That's why it's so hard to be genderqueer or nonbinary, or one of the reasons is a lot of our social systems are built around these very rigid categories. When you break them, you stop being intelligible to the system you exist in. If I am nonbinary, but I have to choose M or F on a form, I get erased as a person. BLAIR HODGES: That's right. You're facing this on forms, you're facing this as people are interacting with you, and from my perspective as a cisgendered person encountering a nonbinary person, my impulse has been to think, “What are they really?” Basically still thinking in terms of what gender they were assigned at birth and then triangulating from that. So I think people are tempted to ask invasive questions about that. It's not my business what gender you or anyone else was assigned at birth, and the more I've been familiar with actual nonbinary folks and hanging out with them, the less that impulse exists to try to see them initially as "What are they really?" Or where's their transness? Where are they transitioning away from, instead of just seeing them as they are. ERIS YOUNG: When you were taught that binary gender is the only thing, your brain is naturally going to go and try and fit the person you're talking to into one or the other category. The only way to do it, the easiest way, is to get to know people and talk to people, as you say. BLAIR HODGES: Do you have to resist that, too? Does the impulse I'm talking about sound familiar to you? When you see someone and as they present your brain starts to automatically do this processing of what their gender identity is. Because we're in such a cisgender-heavy society, it seems that would be a default. I'm just guessing. I'm interested in your thoughts, maybe even for genderqueer folks, that they might have that same kind of impulse. What do you think? ERIS YOUNG: We're subject to the same social conditioning everyone else is. It's different from individual to individual, but I had to do a lot of, I guess you would call it unlearning, as I was writing the book and as I was getting to know myself. I had to let go of all those impulses. I can't even say I did let go of them because it's an ongoing process. I had to do a lot of unlearning and I have a lot of these harmful or unproductive instincts of trying to once I've clocked someone, my brain automatically wants me to try and wonder their sex assignment at birth. It's quite a harmful instinct and a hard one to get rid of. I have managed to get rid of that instinct by being myself and being with other people in my community. I also wanted to loop back to the instinct of thinking what is the person's sex assignment at birth. That instinct to try and wonder about a person's sex assignment at birth, a lot of that comes from, or at least I think it comes from the way our society as a whole is really obsessed with bodies and specifically with categorizing bodies and medicalizing bodies and pathologizing difference. This is an instinct that exists on a lot of different levels, most often in the medical system, but it permeates throughout society. It feels like a very Western, very Anglophone instinct to seek some kind of essential truth about a person. I use that phrase “essential truth” not on its face value, but what we're seeking is what we're taught to think as the truth of a person, when in reality the truth of a person doesn't have to have anything to do with what's in their pants. I think there's this deep historical process that's kind of still ongoing, that contributes to this instinct we have to clock people. IGNORING VERSUS EMBRACING (28:24) BLAIR HODGES: Yeah, I find myself in such a strange position about it, because there's this weird tension of, it shouldn't matter all that much, but it also should matter because I also want to support folks, especially marginalized folks. I want to understand their experiences. There are legal issues, social pressures. I would shy away from a “gender blindness,” I guess. Or a way of erasing gender identity. ERIS YOUNG: Right. I was at university for undergrad in mid-2010s, I guess, I don't know. There was a lot of discourse around, can you be race blind? Can you be post-racial? I mean, no, because you're a person who exists now. Regardless of whether biological sex or gender or even race, regardless of whether those things are actual "scientific realities," they affect the lived experience of real life people today. It's not possible to be gender blind. I think you're right to shy away from that impulse because I don't think it's necessarily a productive one. That's kind of like saying, "Oh, can't we all just get along?" when you're talking about social inequality. At the same time, I don't want to be gender blind. I want to celebrate people's genders. I want to celebrate a trans woman's ability to joyfully embrace femininity and womanhood. I want to celebrate my own in-betweenness and my own playful way I live my gender. I think there is a well-meaning impulse to "not see gender." I don't think that's necessarily the most productive thing to do, because rather I think we should be trying to celebrate difference. BLAIR HODGES: I think the idea of ignoring it is probably coming from a place of privilege. What it really means is I'm not comfortable with it and so let's just not talk about it-- ERIS YOUNG: I think you've hit the nail on the head. LANGUAGE NERD (30:49) BLAIR HODGES: Yeah, when other people don't have that luxury of ignoring it. Okay, so Eris you're also kind of a language nerd. You have a chapter in here about your linguistics I wanted to talk about, because this is a huge consideration. Language itself can be one of the biggest obstacles to social and legal acceptance of nonbinary and genderqueer identities. Let's talk a little bit about that, including the ways different languages are structured. Sometimes gender is literally baked into language. ERIS YOUNG: When I wrote the book, my publisher sent me a list of topics they wanted to cover and I think pronouns were on the list. But then I rubbed my hands together like, "Something about language, you say?" [laughter] I am a big language nerd. Any chance I get to talk about it I will take. We've had the pronouns debate. I think we're coming to the end of that debate, maybe? I guess my political instinct would be, can we stop talking about pronouns and start talking about suicide statistics? Obviously we can talk about both. But I think this "debate" around, "Oh, is it okay to use they/them pronouns?" Like, whatever. But language does have a huge effect on our lived realities. Anyone who's studied any other languages knows this can be totally different depending on what language you're speaking. Your ability to maintain your own autonomy when it comes to gender presentation—what does it mean for someone to be genderqueer or nonbinary in a language like Spanish, where if you speak about someone else you basically have to assign them a binary gender? That was the kind of question I had been trying to get at. There's other languages like Japanese, for example, and obviously there are caveats here because Japanese society—I'm not an expert—but it's not a wonderful place to be trans or nonbinary or queer, but the language itself just taken in a vacuum, you are allowed to basically claim gender for yourself based on the personal pronouns you use because you refer to yourself with a gender. You can use different forms of the word "I" based on how you see your own gender. I haven't studied it in a while, but it's broadly gendered. That's something you can exercise autonomy in. I could use boku if I wanted to be slightly more masculine, but not as masculine as saying ore, for example. BLAIR HODGES: That's interesting because these Japanese words could be seen as over-gendering things, but it also gives people the opportunity to play with language or to identify themselves in their gender identity more on the fly and more subtly than having to say, "My gender pronouns are this." You can just refer to yourself. ERIS YOUNG: You can signal to people on the fly. BLAIR HODGES: If I was saying “I'm glad to meet you,” I could say that in a way that says “I being a cis person…” They would look at me and what I look like and I can give them gender clues just by saying, "I'm glad to meet you”? ERIS YOUNG: It comes down to a part of gender presentation. One of the people I spoke to in writing They/Them/Their is Japanese and I asked them what their pronouns were, and they use they/them in English and boku in Japanese. Depending on the language you're speaking, the way language shapes gender experience is different. I think a lot of the ways we ourselves use language is so gendered. There's a lot of ways, at least in English, a person is able to signal their own gender in the language they use. BLAIR HODGES: You talk about “natural gender” in language, which is the basic meaning of a word, like "woman," "man," and different languages have these natural gender words. And then there's “grammatical gender—all the ways gender is embedded in language arbitrarily. Like in Spanish, there's your ways of signaling male and femaleness and there's also, as you said, in Japanese this way of signaling gender associated to other words, and even in phrases you might use. And you say there are some “social convention” phrases that are more coded as masculine or feminine. I can't think of any examples, but I guess it might be like, let's say in English saying "holy cow" would be like, "Oh, that's kind of like a boy thing to say. Girls don't really say that." There's coded ways of even sending signals about your gender identity and phrases you use. ERIS YOUNG: You're absolutely right. When I'm saying I don't think we need to have the pronouns debate anymore, I mean I don't think we need to debate about whether it's grammatical anymore. PRONOUN GO ROUND (35:36) BLAIR HODGES: I guess even swearing in English. It used to be more so in the past, but it was not "ladylike" to use certain words. In English too. You mentioned the pronoun debate, I do think it's important to talk about why that is important. Why that does matter to people. There's a quote here I highlighted from the book: "The question at the heart of the pronoun debate is really fundamentally one about autonomy, the ability of a demographic, especially a marginalized one, to name itself and to claim agency or control over how it's referred to, and by extension treated." I think this is what makes some opponents and critics so uncomfortable with the pronoun debate. They don't want to give up control over defining other people. They perhaps feel it's some sort of indictment even of themselves. It's really a control issue and a dignity issue. You talk a little bit about that history too, because they/them/their for a singular, people say, "Oh, ‘they,' that's plural. It's not right to use that singularly." Your book is like, "Well, actually." [laughs] ERIS YOUNG: I do a bit of "well, actually." English has actually had neutral pronouns in it. Old English had them and various times throughout history. People may not know this, but language changes a lot over time. English has had neutral pronouns at various times. I think Shakespeare used them. Jane Austen used them. So to say it's ungrammatical and it's a newfangled thing is pretty disingenuous. BLAIR HODGES: People should note "they" as a singular pronoun actually is older than "you" as a singular pronoun. It was being used earlier than "you." Let's talk about neopronouns too. This is where I feel I have to resist being the old man on the porch shaking my fist at the youths, because when I start seeing all the differences, people might see pronouns like ze and xe and ve, I'm not even a hundred percent sure how to pronounce a lot of these, but so it's easy for me to be the old man on the porch. Give us some info about these newer pronouns. ERIS YOUNG: At the time I wrote the book, there were and still are people who use pronouns like ze/zir, ze/hir, which is a combination of him and her. They get conjugated, or they declined any other set of pronouns. But truth be told, I don't personally know many people that use neopronouns, and I wonder if that is because it's quite difficult to assert that. We're barely able to get people to not mis-gender us and to use they/them. BLAIR HODGES: Like you said, there was a learning curve in being able to learn how to use they/them/their in the way I can now. It's a bigger lift when we're completely unfamiliar with new pronouns. I see the utility of them. I think it's cool. I like how language changes to adapt to new realities. Maybe a hundred years from now someone will be like, "You didn't know? These pronouns have now carried the day." That'd be cool. But I feel that future would be a long way off. ERIS YOUNG: It does feel a long way off. I'll probably talk a little bit later about backlash we're experiencing, especially here in the UK, and I wonder if a lot of people who would otherwise be using neopronouns because they feel that most accurately reflects who they are, are just sort of like, "I can't fight with people anymore. I'll just use they/them." MISGENDERING MISTAKES (40:01) BLAIR HODGES: This speaks to a broader issue of the kind of fights people are willing to have, and the rights that are at the forefront at the moment. That's a political calculation, which also means some people get hurt in the meantime, and pain exists in the meantime. But there are priorities that are set and there are imbalances of power. People get to kind of decide, "Let's rally together. What are we going for right now?" Choices have to be made. I think that can be tricky, but it speaks to the fact that language is a power game. All of this is wrapped up in power. Not that everybody is even necessarily trying to exercise mean power over others, but sometimes we make mistakes. Now I'm looking for tips from you about how people can handle accidentally misgendering somebody, for example, what's a good approach when that happens? ERIS YOUNG: Going back to this idea of we're not really trying to be the center of attention, even just because being the center of attention is quite dangerous, the best advice is to approach the interaction with good faith, understand you may be hurting someone more than you personally can empathize with, and there are certain situations where it's no one's fault. I guess my advice would be if you accidentally misgender someone or deadname someone, you don't need to make a big deal out of it. Make sure the person knows you're sorry and you're trying, but you don't need to necessarily go, "Oh, God, I'm the worst! Oh no, I f*cked up so bad!" Don't make it about you, but also don't put them in the spotlight. You can correct yourself, say sorry, and then move on with the conversation. Maybe you can check in with that person later and say, "Are you okay?" We're all adults here and there are ways of doing it sensitively just as long as you're being as respectful as you can be. BLAIR HODGES: One thing I've been encouraged to resist is to say something like, "I hope you can be patient with me as I learn." Because again, that's making it about me and putting an obligation on that person to police their own feelings or to maybe even feel shame if they feel angry or upset about it. ERIS YOUNG: Because sometimes I can't be patient with someone. I just need to step away. That's a good point. BLAIR HODGES: I love this in your book where you talk about that, how does it feel to get misgendered? And you're like, "Well, it depends on the day. There are some days when I'm feeling fine and I see that as an annoyance and it's like, okay that's not really cool but I can move on." Then you can be in a different space at a different time when it hurts more. And it depends on your relationship to the person who's doing it, or the situation. There's no one way it's received when someone gets misgendered. It really depends. I liked what you said of just being subtle about it, of being straightforward, apologizing, and not making too big of a deal out of it either. That otherwise puts more labor on a nonbinary or nongender conforming person. ERIS YOUNG: I guess understand also you can apologize, and you should apologize, but the other person doesn't owe you forgiveness. BLAIR HODGES: And don't feel resentful if they don't. They have a whole backlog of experiences that your one comment one day can be added to. I think that's all about not making it about me again. I would be making it about me if I was like, "Well, they should forgive me and if they don't then that's a problem," or “they're a bad person,” or whatever. That would be centering myself. I've been working at not centering myself as much, especially coming from a more privileged position, being cis-het, being a white male. I'm perceived as the default or with all the privilege that brings. It's helpful to keep in mind that misgendering can be really hurtful, and other times it can just be annoying. I think being attuned to that is helpful. I want to remind people Eris Young is our guest and we're talking about the book They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary and Queer Identities. This is a great book. Eris, I'm so glad we're able to sit down and talk with you about it today. And we've got more stuff to cover.  NEGOTIATING UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY (44:28) BLAIR HODGES: I want to talk about the community aspect. It's Pride Month, by the way. Happy Pride, Eris! ERIS YOUNG: Happy Pride! BLAIR HODGES: Let's look at this acronym: LGBTQ. I've also seen it expanded to LGBTQIA+. There are different iterations of it. It didn't occur to me until pretty recently the way the acronym breaks down, the first few letters pertain more to sexual orientation, lesbian, gay, bi, and then we start to get to gender identity. Trans, queer, the T and Q, and I is intersex, A, asexuality, the plus means it can extend to pansexual and aromantic. There's all sorts of things. But it's interesting to me that it's not fully distinguishing between sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and so on. It's all kind of lumped together as these marginalized identities. What that means is the LGB part of it can be really binary and even transphobic as well, even though the letter T appears in the bigger acronym. Let's talk about the LGBTQ community, and how you address that in the book, and some of the nuances people miss who aren't really in those communities. ERIS YOUNG: LGBTQ+, etc. It's an umbrella term. It is an expression of a shared experience of marginalization in terms of sex, gender, and sexuality. Naturally that means it's not a monolith. There are always going to be conflicts within the community. What do I want to say about this? — BLAIR HODGES: It can be a touchy subject. The fact that you paused a little bit, what is that coming from? Just trying to organize your thoughts? Or are there some anxieties about unpacking this stuff? ERIS YOUNG: There definitely is a little bit of anxiety there in terms of, as you mentioned earlier, we're under a lot of pressure, especially right now, to present a unified front to the rest of the world. We have to act in solidarity with each other. The same people who are trying to take rights away from transgender people, if they succeed in five years, they'll be coming after gays and lesbians who only recently managed to secure any kind of real legal or social security. We all need to be acting in solidarity with each other, but that's not always possible. There is a lot of conflict. When you see LGB, and then you go T, and then you go Q, and queer sort of articulates a division within the community that I can see, which is you have assimilationist, usually LGB people, most often cis, and then you've got queer, trans, ace people who are more often likely, at least from my view, to be anti-assimilationist, who are more likely to want to reject the entire institution of marriage because of an understanding that marriage is a part of a heteronormative system. It can't be decoupled from that. I think there are divisions within the community and a lot of the communities I belong to, the genderqueer and trans communities, I do consider myself to be queer. I think that's a more capacious term a lot of us use to describe ourselves. I'm trans, and I'm also asexual. I'm a triple threat of anti-assimilationist queerness because those are the identities that don't really slot in easily into the existing system. There's been a lot of campaigning historically for gays and lesbians to be able to marry, though there is "marriage equality" in a lot of countries now, nonbinary people who don't have one or the other gender marker, often we are excluded from those so-called equal marriages. I think it's inherent to some identities, and obviously these identities don't have firm boundaries between them, but there's a lot of types of ways of being, of lived experience that don't have the luxury or the privilege of being able to assimilate. You see a lot of corporations getting involved with Pride now because the corporations have realized the gays have money now, and a lot of us don't have money yet. The T, that's the poorest subgroup within the LGBTQIA+. BLAIR HODGES: Economically speaking you can see lower incomes, more difficult job opportunities, education, violence committed against— ERIS YOUNG: —Housing, incarceration. BLAIR HODGES: I think there's been some temptation by old school LGB to throw that under the bus a little bit. They would say, I've heard this, "We fought for certain rights and we've got to protect those. We don't really get this other thing and don't feel obligated to it." They want to separate that out and even maybe display blatant transphobia. It's not the case that just because someone identifies as lesbian, gay, or bi they're going to be an ally of trans folks. That's just not a guarantee. ERIS YOUNG: I think that's something that at least I, maybe naively, have been quite surprised and disappointed at. I come in good faith to the community and then I find some people don't want me there. It can be quite frustrating. It undermines the solidarity we're going to need in order to survive the next ten, twenty, fifty years. It's quite disappointing to see. I do want to say at this point I think the handful of gays, lesbians, and “question mark” bisexuals—I think it's mainly cis gays and lesbians who are exhibiting transphobia. That's a very vocal, very limited minority. I think the vast majority of cis gays and lesbians are wholly supportive of the trans community and fully understanding our rights and our rights to dignity, health care, stability, security, they're all interconnected. I think most people within the community do understand that and are working alongside us. But there is a vocal and influential minority within the LGBTQ+ community working against full equality, the full equality of the umbrella as a whole. It's quite hard to see. BLAIR HODGES: These are folks who are going to get platformed, too. One of the dangers is there's a kind of extra credibility in the eyes of transphobic folks. ERIS YOUNG: “We have a gay we can wheel out who hates trans people, that means the whole community does.” BLAIR HODGES: Exactly. This happens with people who have detransitioned. A very small number of folks who transition and detransition in some way for any number of reasons, and then an even smaller subset of that then become spokespeople against trans rights and are platformed and given huge audiences. ERIS YOUNG: Simply because they are able to pander to that transphobic ideology. BLAIR HODGES: It's heartening to hear that solidarity continues, and is more prominent. Your book does a good job of talking about the necessary community building that has to happen if people are going to advance rights and protections. And celebrations too. It's not just about protection. It's also about celebration and embracing and acceptance and curiosity and exploring. That's important as well. ON MENTAL HEALTH (52:45) BLAIR HODGES: As your book talks about mental health issues, I think that's a good transition into that topic, your chapter on mental health is especially careful because some people believe identifying beyond the binary or outside of it, is itself a mental health problem. This has been pathologized even in scientific Enlightenment thinking, as scientists in the late 1800s are trying to classify things and start seeing nonbinary and trans identities as pathological. Talk about the trickiness of mental health. Because on the one hand, it's been pathologized in negative ways. On the other hand, mental health issues do exist within the trans and nonbinary communities, in part because of the pressures that surround it. Mental health is a real concern, but it can also be deployed in really negative ways. ERIS YOUNG: I think you pretty much said it. The mental health chapter in my book—that was one of the topics I knew from the beginning I wanted to talk about, because I wanted to know what was going on. I think that chapter for me was all about trying to pick apart where these negative mental health outcomes actually come from. On the surface we've got these two facts that seem to contradict each other. We have on the one hand documented, disproportionate experiences of mental illness within the trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer communities. On the other side you have this understanding—and this was intuitive for me—this understanding that there is nothing wrong with being trans or being nonbinary. It's not an illness, it's just another way of being in the world. I really wanted in while writing that chapter, to try and dig a little deeper and get at what was really going on. What I basically found was it's a combination of gender dysphoria and marginalization stress, which is this experience, this way of describing the negative mental health outcomes—anxiety, depression—that come when a person is living as a marginalized person. Any kind of minority might experience this. It's the stresses of dealing with microaggressions. The everyday stress of being misgendered, of feeling like you don't fit and that society isn't built for you. BLAIR HODGES: These are physical things that happen. You talk about blood pressure elevation, more stress hormones being released, which is hard on the body, and it impacts mental and physical health. When people feel these marginalized stressors it has physical impacts. As you said, if you were to set a group of nonbinary folks or trans folks and a group of cis het folks next to each other, you're going to see a disproportionate amount of marginalized folks with depression, anxiety, and other things. It would be easy to say those people are broken people and their gender identity issues are because they have mental problems, or they're depressed, or it's part of all that. Instead of saying there's nothing wrong with who they are, but what they experience causes these negative outcomes. That's a crucial distinction to make. ERIS YOUNG: It's a really crucial distinction, but it's also quite a pernicious assumption. I can easily see where it comes from. When you have someone whose existence challenges people in positions of power, I can see why it was very convenient for people in medical institutions to be able to say “It's an illness, look how depressed they are,” and just in that way sort of brush queers, trans people under the rug. ON MEDICAL APPROACHES (56:38) BLAIR HODGES: There's also a chapter here specifically about medical issues, which is another touchy subject. As you've already hinted at, there's some distrust between genderqueer folks, trans folks, and medical resources and medical practitioners because of a history of diagnosis, this history of assuming these identities are disorders, and a history of attempts to cure them. We think of conversion therapy today as a religiously grounded thing, and obviously there are religious groups still trying to practice it, but it also grew out of the medical industry and out of psychology. It wasn't just religious fundamentalists who wanted to fix gay people or trans people, but rather medical industry saying, "Is there a way we can fix this problem for them so their gender aligns with their sex?" That's a long history— ERIS YOUNG: So they reintegrate into society. BLAIR HODGES: Exactly. This is where it's tricky because medical advances have helped, with hormone blockers and helping people medically transition, whether it be through hormones, whether it be through surgical procedures, but behind all of that is a lot of baggage and ongoing distrust. ERIS YOUNG: I think trans people who decide they want to transition medically, whatever that means for them, are put in this contradictory position where you are forced to rely on a system that has consistently dehumanized and pathologized you and people like you. That can create a lot of trauma. It's like being in a position where someone has hurt you and you have to see that person every day. It can be quite harmful. That really does come down to this post-European enlightenment shift in mindset that made us start to see biological sex as a kind of scientific reality and to uphold that as the most important thing. It also comes down to the way we have this system of capitalism that exploded after the Industrial Revolution, and you had men and women's social roles become more and more divergent from each other. Women were increasingly relegated to the home and men were increasingly placed in positions of economic power that were now outside the home. What that meant was, for men in power, it was very convenient for them to use this new scientific knowledge to make claims about the people they wanted to exclude from power. Usually this was women, but it's been weaponized against trans people, colonized people, queer people, generally since that time. BLAIR HODGES: As though there's something inherently inferior about them. ERIS YOUNG: Inferior, broken, and somehow being unwilling or unable or refusing to conform to a very specific norm is a moral failing and an illness. BLAIR HODGES: And hey, we can fix it! Using science. ERIS YOUNG: That's why in the community we have these assimilationist and anti-assimilationist groups getting in conflict with each other, because society offers you a way to re-enter society. Come back to the bosom of society. All you have to do is promise not to challenge the people in power anymore. It's really tempting and I can see why people fall into that. BLAIR HODGES: That can even happen in the process of transitioning too. We're staring down the barrel of all these new laws people are trying to pass that prevent gender affirming medical care, especially for young people. It's at a critical time. The idea of puberty blockers is to prolong a time when a young person can come to terms with who they are. ERIS YOUNG: Just some breathing space. To get to know yourself a bit better. BLAIR HODGES: They want to be like, "That's too dangerous. Let's just cut that completely off and then they can decide when they're older." But that means a body has undergone changes it didn't necessarily have to to begin with. The medical community is offering options now for people to take more control over their identities and their presentation in ways that alleviate suicidality. This part fascinated me where you talked about, for example, a care provider you had who thought you were transitioning to male and was prescribing testosterone and was like, "Your levels aren't where they should be." You're like, "Oh, interesting," but you also felt like you couldn't say like, "They're where I want them to be." ERIS YOUNG: It puts you in this position of having to misrepresent yourself. I think this is not as common anymore. Here in the UK we do have gender identity clinics, for how much longer we'll have those I do not know, but I do know a few people I've spoken to have accessed those services. There are people who are being very open about their nonbinary identity and their desire to transition in a way that isn't strictly from one end of the pole to another. BLAIR HODGES: I'm pausing the interview for a quick second with an update because Eris's words about care being under threat were prescient. Since we recorded the interview months ago, the UK has paused the prescription of puberty blockers for minors, under the advice of a partisan report produced by Dr. Hilary Cass, who other reporters say has worked with anti-trans activist groups and conversion therapists. To get a better sense about why prescriptions are being paused, I suggest following independent reporters who've been covering these stories. Erin Reed and Evan Urquhart are two of my favorite resources to go to. I hope to cover more about these recent studies and these laws later on the show. Back to Eris Young. TRANSITION OPTIONS (1:02:30) BLAIR HODGES: Give us a sixty second snapshot of what the process generally looks like for a young person who, let's say from a very young age they've talked about not being a boy or a girl, or maybe they've talked about being a gender they weren't assigned at birth. What does the process look like to transition? There are many ways to transition, so just give us a snapshot of what people go through. ERIS YOUNG: It varies a lot between the US and the UK and from state to state, obviously, and country to country, region to region. I think rural trans people will experience, for example, using gender identity services in the UK a lot differently than someone who's based in a city. If they're very young they might be able to access puberty blockers. That would only be for a short period of time they would be prescribed. They are not generally prescribed longer than a few years from my understanding. That would just give them a little bit of breathing space, because generally at the point of access of the first point of entry into the gender identity medical system, that's the moment at which a child is able to declare there's something going on with me and I want to explore it in more depth. At the point of being prescribed puberty blockers, that would just give them a little bit of breathing room to talk to people, hopefully. I'm of two minds about speaking to a cis therapist about gender stuff, but explore the community, explore their options, think about what kind of gender presentation feels right for them, think long and hard about what kind of medical transition they might want to undergo or not undergo at all. Then after a few years, they would then in an ideal world access hormone replacement therapy, so either and/or testosterone or estrogen, while this whole time they'll be transitioning socially, ideally, if it's safe to do so, exploring different names, different pronouns. I actually don't know if this is the lived reality of people right now. I'm sure in very progressive cities it probably is. The reality I'm sure is much more difficult than I'm making it out to be. BLAIR HODGES: This is the impression I think opponents have, is this idea that it's super easy and these kids are being manipulated, or the word people use is “groomed.” This term that has been rightly used to talk about adults pressuring children into sexual situations or conversion therapy, but they're trying to use it as though these people are trying to brainwash kids into thinking they're different. ERIS YOUNG: That's the same kind of bullsh*t that was said about gay people back in the eighties or nineties. “They're grooming our children and making them gay.” No. No, we aren't. BLAIR HODGES: Opponents of gay marriage would say, “we can't have gay men in particular father children because what they really want to do is abuse kids” or whatever. We're seeing those exact same arguments play out here. For anyone who has spent any time with a kid who identifies as trans, good luck trying to convince them of something else. I can barely get my kid to brush his teeth every night. There's the claim that it's way too easy, that it's coercive, that kids aren't interested in this really. ERIS YOUNG: It's the reverse. It's the kids that are educating themselves and coming to this with clear eyes and letting go of the social programming they've had. The kids are so much more conversant with all of this stuff than I was at their age. They should be supported in that. BLAIR HODGES: The parents I see are involved. There's nervousness, there's anxiety, and fear and love and all kinds of emotions they're dealing with. It's not this simple process. Your book is helpful in laying out why these processes are necessary and helpful, and also some of the downsides. It's clear eyed about some changes that could improve the system, more patient-centered informed consent models, where medical professionals are laying out options and talking about drawbacks and talking about side effects and talking about possibilities. ERIS YOUNG: I think the biggest change that needs to happen within the medical community is to understand or to acknowledge trans people are the experts on their own lived experience and are capable of making informed decisions for themselves and are best placed to make informed decisions for themselves. Not some faceless gender recognition panel of old cis people. I think that's the biggest change I'd like to see in the medical system. I have no idea if we'll ever get there. LEGAL ISSUES (1:07:19) BLAIR HODGES: Speaking of changes, let's also talk about legal issues. So you say nonbinary folks are most concerned with two factors. First, they need basic legal recognition of their identities, especially on official documents, birth certificates, and other things. Then second, with greater visibility will come a greater need for legal protection from discrimination, from violence. Those are the big things. Tell us what legal protections exist now, and what legal protections you'd really like to see happen that don't exist mostly. ERIS YOUNG: It's a little tricky. These things are changing all the time. They vary by country, they vary over time, they walk forward and get knocked back. Just last year in the UK, we saw Scotland vote by a pretty solid majority to reform the Gender Recognition Act in Scotland. This was the Scottish people voting in favor of making the legal process and medical process for transitioning easier and more humane. It would allow people to start the process younger, and it would eliminate some of the more dehumanizing and traumatic aspects of the current UK gender recognition system. Then what we saw was that Westminster, so the overarching government in the UK, which is a conservative government run by the Tory Party, Boris Johnson or whoever they've got down there now, they simply decided to ignore it. They saw that Scotland had voted, exercised the democratic process, and they decided not to uphold it. The Gender Recognition Act has not been reformed, even though Scotland voted to do it. We've seen even in the course of one year massive progress and massive walking back of that progress because of a transphobic government the UK has. It really varies a lot and it's all extremely in flux right now. I'm pretty excited that I've now been able to, I think at the beginning of last year, I applied for a passport just at the time Joe Biden announced you can now get an X on your gender marker, so I got that which was very cool. I filled out my application and then had to come back to the UK but in my mom's house right now there's a driver's license for me with an X gender marker on it that I have to go and get. I've got these nonbinary friendly, inclusive gender markers on my driver's license. In California, literally all I had to do was fill out a gender declaration form. It took a minute to fill it out. It was super easy. I'm grateful my family is based in California. We have a lot of rights other queers in other states don't. Something I'm wondering is, the more we see progress being made in one area, for example in legal documentation, what then does that mean, for example, to the criminal justice system? Or I should say, the quote-unquote "justice system"? This is all theoretical. What happens to somebody with an X gender marker on their documentation if they get arrested, if they become incarcerated? BLAIR HODGES: If they're incarcerated, where do they go? If prisons are separated by binary where would they go? ERIS YOUNG: Is it possible to change your birth certificate right now? I'm not sure. I haven't looked into it. If it is, how much longer will we have that privilege, or that right of being able to do that? But the more we change things, the more we start to see how entrenched binary gender is throughout the entire system. Obviously, what passes for a criminal justice system in the United States is fundamentally broken and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. Part of that is going to be, how is sex and gender treated within that system. I don't know if anyone has done any formal study of people with nonbinary legal documentation or just of nonbinary people within the criminal justice system in the States. I'd be very interested to see what they're finding because it would be another layer of complication on an already horrific experience. BLAIR HODGES: We're also seeing general access to care being affected in places. Utah, where I'm meeting you from, has passed legislation to prevent gender affirming care for minors. It's causing so much pain and damage. Hopefully the courts can help address that, but that remains to be seen. Legally it feels like we have a long way to go, and I think it's going to be a heavier lift in some ways than gay marriage because cis het people could more easily wrap our heads around gay marriage. It was just like, oh, these people want to get married. Cool. ERIS YOUNG: This is us asking for a separate thing. It's not an assimilation. We're asking for actual change, not just to access something existing. IS THERE REASON TO HOPE? (1:12:54) BLAIR HODGES: To be yourselves. Let us be us, not let us be like you. ERIS YOUNG: Yes.  BLAIR HODGES: With that in mind, are you generally optimistic? Let's close on that. What are some reasons for optimism, some things to keep our eyes on? ERIS YOUNG: Something I find reassuring is, it's not the same all over the world right now. We are seeing backlash, but it's not the same. One of my friends here in Scotland, they're nonbinary and their son is trans. They just went to Canada and stayed there for a few weeks. They said they felt safer and more seen and more understood than they had in years of living in the UK. It wasn't just that there are legal recognitions over there. It's the way they were treated in the day-to-day by normal everyday cis people. Just regular people treated them with respect and understanding. They didn't want to leave. In a way, it is cause for optimism because it makes me think it's not this way everywhere and it doesn't have to be. At the same time, it's quite depressing because we can't all move to Canada. There's space there, but you know. [laughter] I want to believe it won't be like it is in the UK or certain parts of the USA forever. I have to hope, but at the same time, and I think directly correlated with the increase in visibility that trans and nonbinary people have had in recent years, we've become really visible or we've been really visible and uncompromising when it comes to claiming space and claiming language for ourselves. What that means is there are a lot of people, especially people in power, who are made upset by that, who are afraid of it because it makes them think about themselves and think about their own position in the world. If they acknowledge us then they have to question a lot of the things they've based their whole lives around. Because they're people in power they've applied an equal and opposite pressure to our own attempts to demand rights and equality. I think the next ten years is going to be difficult. BLAIR HODGES: From where I sit—this is complete theory, there's no study backing this theory I have—but I have a theory that there are more people who would be supportive of nonbinary identities, that there are more people who could come to easily understand trans folks and their experiences, and the opposition is a very dedicated, vocal, and powerful minority of voices who have a disproportionate impact on what policies are passed, on how people are treated. What that means to me is if that's true, that puts more onus on me to use my voice and my position to advocate for equality and for greater understanding. It really becomes the sort of middle grounders or folks who are like, "Yeah, that sounds fine to me. But I'm also living my life over here." That's who I want to start paying attention. Because most queer folks are already in the fight. They kind of have to be. Some take breaks here and there or want to hop out because otherwise they might end their lives or something. For me, I want these folks who are interested, maybe kindly curious, to be more

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Codey and Bev talk about Window Garden Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:01:14: What Have We Been Up To 00:16:50: News 00:48:02: Window Garden 01:26:46: Outro Links Wholesome Direct New Animal Crossing Lego Moosntone Island DLC and Update Tiny Garden Kickstarter Forage Friends Cozy Caravan Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:32) Codey: Hello and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. (0:00:34) Codey: My name is Cody and we are here today to talk about cottage core games. (0:00:36) Bev: And my name is Pav. (0:00:37) Bev: Bye! (0:00:40) Codey: Woo. (0:00:43) Codey: Uh, as always, transcripts are available in the show notes and on the website. (0:00:46) Codey: And today this episode, we are talking about window garden, the lo-fi idol game, super cute, um, been very excited to talk about this. (0:00:54) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:00:56) Codey: We’ve been playing it for a few months now. (0:00:58) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:00:59) Codey: I’m excited to hear how far you are, but we haven’t talked about it at all. (0:01:01) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:01:02) Codey: Um, and so, um, yeah, so that’s the, the main topic. (0:01:09) Codey: Uh, we always, as always have some news. (0:01:11) Codey: There’s some, some interesting news going on today. (0:01:15) Codey: Uh, but before that, uh, Beth, what have you been up to? (0:01:18) Bev: I have been dying at work, but in terms of what I’ve been playing, I’ve been doing a lot of Marvel Strike Force recently. I got back into that for whatever reason. I thought, (0:01:35) Bev: yes, I need a gacha game back into my life. In addition to keeping up with Twisted Wonderland, (0:01:43) Bev: I’m not doing so much in the way of console games because I just feel like I don’t have a (0:01:48) Bev: lot of time for it, but I did recently get the old Jedi game. Was it Fallen Order? (0:01:54) Codey: Mmm, okay, okay (0:01:56) Bev: Not Jedi Survivor because that’s a new one, but the previous one because it was on sale from May the 4th. I have like an hour in there since then. How about you? (0:02:03) Codey: Okay, okay (0:02:05) Codey: cool, uh (0:02:07) Bev: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. (0:02:08) Codey: Well, I also it has been a while since we talked about your background garden (0:02:13) Codey: Do you like your backyard garden? Do you have do you still have that? Is that still a thing? Is it getting up getting ready? (0:02:18) Bev: We do. (0:02:22) Bev: So it was falling into disarray over the winter and at the end of, I think, (0:02:27) Bev: fall of last year. (0:02:29) Bev: But now it’s spring, so it’s a whole new year and we’ve reset. (0:02:33) Bev: We actually redid our whole backyard. (0:02:37) Bev: So we got new pavers in and no longer have to deal with weeds anymore, (0:02:41) Bev: which is fantastic. (0:02:44) Bev: So we also bought like new like furniture. (0:02:48) Bev: Out there, so we’re actually gonna get to sit outside like in an umbrella and have enjoyment in our space without a whole bunch of stuff everywhere. (0:02:59) Bev: Since we just, it was getting bad, so we got rid of a lot of stuff back there. (0:03:06) Bev: Cuz I had like working projects for houses, the house, and that just never happened. (0:03:11) Bev: And then we’re like, we’re just gonna accept that this is a project that is no longer taking place. (0:03:15) Codey: yeah that is the worst when you have to like I’m about actually probably also about to have to do that because I have a roommate moving in and I have to clean out this room and so there’s gonna be like a lot of stuff that’s like okay I’ve had a this this thing for this hard drive for forever that I said I was gonna go through I don’t even remember what’s on it do I actually need this like I don’t know or I’ll just throw it in that memory box and maybe one day I’ll do it, but I don’t need to have it on my desk anymore. (0:03:32) Bev: Mhm. Mhm. Right, exactly. Like at one point, like it’s been a year or so that this project hasn’t been worked on. So it’s like, is it, is it actually going to happen at this point? Probably not. So we bought some new like herbs and have them hanging instead of in the… (0:03:50) Codey: Yeah. Yeah. (0:04:02) Bev: the bed. We haven’t used the bed yet. Um, because last time it got like, we got overgrown too quickly with the squashes and tomatoes. So we’re like, we’re gonna start smaller and have them separate so that they don’t get angry and start quarreling with each other. Um, and uh, uh, my partner, uh, Taylor has been mostly, uh, working on the backyard, but they’ve been enjoying the the gardening much more. (0:04:04) Codey: Okay. (0:04:08) Codey: Uh-huh. (0:04:10) Codey: Okay. (0:04:32) Bev: I’m going to try to get a little bit more of a look at what happened. (0:04:32) Codey: Mm-hmm. Well, it’s lovely though that it’s there and like you can get out there and and do some stuff if you want But that it’s also not gonna (0:04:35) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:04:36) Bev: Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. (0:04:44) Codey: Unlike my at my yard (0:04:46) Codey: My my backyard just got fenced and I was I had these grand designs of like, oh I’m gonna clean this I’m gonna do this. I’m gonna do that (0:04:56) Codey: And yeah, it’s not (0:04:58) Codey: surprise I mean every now and then I’d go out there with the dogs and I kick the ball for them and then they find like a stick to chew on or whatever and they like chill and then I’ll go out and pull some pull up some of that garlic mustard, ooh garlic mustard it’s the worst, pull up some of that pull up some other stuff that is just a non-native that is taking over the beds because there’s excuse me there’s a couple of areas where there’s not grass that I could make like wildflower beds and then I do also have a raised fenced bed that I am hoping to– (0:05:12) Bev: Mm-hmm, yeah. (0:05:26) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:05:34) Codey: I don’t want to put veggies in this year, but I should probably be doing that like now, I guess. (0:05:34) Bev: I mean, there’s still time. (0:05:40) Codey: So we’ll see. (0:05:43) Bev: It doesn’t have to be now, like. (0:05:44) Codey: I really want zucchinis because I love just the, like, always having zucchini, like– (0:05:52) Codey: I love hearing from my friends who have zucchini plants that they’re like, “It just won’t stop.” (0:05:56) Codey: Like, I just want that. I want to make zucchini bread, like, every week, you know? (0:05:57) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:06:00) Codey: or be the person that’s like zucchinis are like falling. (0:06:02) Codey: out of my pockets and I’m like “please take my zucchinis” because I have friends that are that way but I want to be that person just once in my life. Just once. (0:06:08) Bev: Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, mix-ups. Um, we also got our fence re-did, um, (0:06:17) Bev: which is nice because now you don’t have, like, those, those, like, (0:06:21) Bev: gaps in between the, the slots, I guess, or the, whatever they’re called. Um, (0:06:26) Bev: So it feels like we have a lot more. (0:06:27) Bev: Privacy and our decrepit gate is not just like Hank literally just being supported by the fence (0:06:35) Bev: because it’s not connected at that point. (0:06:39) Bev: And we set up a zipline for the cats so we can bring them out. (0:06:42) Codey: My gosh (0:06:45) Codey: So like you just clip them to the zipline and they get to do whatever they want. Oh my gosh freaking adorable (0:06:53) Bev: And got some bird feeders so we can attract (0:06:58) Bev: the birds so the cats can look at them and get some enrichment through the windows. (0:07:02) Codey: Yeah. (0:07:05) Bev: I know one thing that Taylor had mentioned like we want to do is like maybe possibly using the beds for like just local pollinator plants but (0:07:14) Bev: we haven’t gotten around to doing that so I think we’ll probably be planting that as well. (0:07:18) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:07:19) Codey: I mean that works either way like it’s you know either you’re even even a lot of like fruits and vegetables that you might grow in there are gonna produce a flower usually at some point but yeah depending on if you’re living in a really urban environment it might be good to to also have some some of that pollinator flowers as well to support the local populations (0:07:30) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:07:32) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:07:42) Bev: Yeah, it’s not super urban, but it’s pretty suburban so I wouldn’t mind, like just having some more and it feels like I think Taylor’s probably thinking it’s going to be less work than the veggies, but I don’t know if that’s actually the case or not, but yeah, exactly. (0:07:47) Codey: Mm-hmm (0:07:49) Codey: Yeah Yeah. (0:07:59) Codey: I mean you’re gonna have to weed in there for sure and it depending on what kind of wildflower mixes you spread it might be difficult to determine what’s the weed and what was meant to be in there I think that’s the issue that I always have with that kind of stuff so my plan for wildflowers this year is literally while I’m doing my field research just grab seed pods be like oh that I can tell this is a goldenrod from last year I’m just gonna yoink grab everything (0:08:12) Bev: Mm-hm, mm-hm, mm-hm. (0:08:22) Bev: Ooh, yes. (0:08:29) Codey: if there are any seed pods that didn’t like dispense their seeds and just toss them in my backyard and hope that they grow milkweed goldenrod lots of different goldenrods that are that are native to this area that just support a plethora of things on the non gardening side I have been playing Disney Dreamlight Valley I now almost have Daisy all the way maxed out and Mike Wazowski who are the only two characters that I did not (0:08:36) Bev: Beautiful. (0:08:39) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:08:44) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:08:54) Bev: Oh yay! (0:08:59) Codey: have all the way maxed out so I am about to be done on that and then I would have to pay for content to have content I think I’ll just wait though and then Minecraft Fox still going strong and never posted pictures like I said I would last week but I did I did I took them so I I have a bunch of I have a bunch of pictures I just never posted them so yeah I have that still going on The tail is now finished and I’m now working on the body. (0:09:00) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:09:02) Bev: Amazing. (0:09:06) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:09:08) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:09:18) Bev: You’re halfway there! (0:09:29) Codey: And we’re building up the sanctuary part of it that’s on the top, which is really cute. (0:09:34) Codey: There’s just foxes all over and then I’m trying to find what I want to play next. (0:09:39) Codey: And I went on Game Pass and there were a bunch of those like simulation games like power washing simulator and like cooking simulator. (0:09:50) Codey: And I was like, oh, I want to try some of these. (0:09:53) Codey: I love watching videos of people power wash. (0:09:54) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:09:56) Codey: Let me try this. (0:09:59) Codey: But I do also have one of my best friends is playing SnowRunner, which is like a game where you pilot rescue vehicles to save people from like, like if they’re stuck in the snow or whatever, or you’re, or you also just like deliver things in the snow, and they have a bunch of different types of vehicles that you can use. (0:10:10) Bev: Ooh, okay. (0:10:13) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:10:21) Codey: And you, I guess you can play that multiplayer cross platform so he could, he could be like, well, I’m going to grab this, this vehicle and I know that we’re going to need. (0:10:24) Bev: Cool. Okay. (0:10:29) Codey: This other vehicle. So can you go grab that real quick and I’ll be like, heck yeah. And then I’ll run them off the road because I’m a menace to society. (0:10:32) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:10:37) Codey: So we’ll see how long that I think it’d be fun though. (0:10:39) Bev: Uh-huh, uh-huh. I forgot Dreamlight Valley was a thing. (0:10:45) Codey: Oh, it’s so good. It is so I mean, I also should probably go back to Coraline when there’s all those updates that are coming out and. (0:10:51) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:10:53) Bev: Yeah, I was playing a lot of Howl Island prior to I think May the 4th and then I stopped then around then. (0:11:00) Bev: and then… (0:11:02) Bev: but (0:11:02) Codey: I think I’m [AUDIO OUT] (0:11:03) Bev: I realized, like, I’m probably gonna wanna start a new island as soon as the 1.1, (0:11:07) Bev: so I was like, “Mmm, maybe I would– this is where I’ll stop for now.” (0:11:11) Codey: Right. (0:11:13) Codey: Yeah, I don’t even think I made it past summer in that game. (0:11:17) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:11:18) Codey: So I still have a lot that I can do. (0:11:20) Codey: I just– I planted some things. (0:11:22) Codey: And then I was like, ooh, hyperfixing on the ocean cleanup? (0:11:25) Codey: And then that was my life. (0:11:27) Codey: And then every now and then I’d find– (0:11:31) Codey: His name’s not Simon, is it? (0:11:32) Codey: I’m the museum guy. (0:11:33) Bev: Oh, no. Oh, goodness. (0:11:36) Codey: Well, that guy. (0:11:39) Codey: That, that Hoddy McConterton. (0:11:40) Bev: OK, I can picture him, but I can’t see his name. (0:11:44) Codey: Um, that person. (0:11:44) Bev: Oh. Scott. (0:11:47) Codey: I cannot believe I blinked on his name. (0:11:50) Codey: I would go, I just go and give him Scott. (0:11:54) Codey: I knew it started with an X. (0:11:57) Codey: Yeah, I go and give him gifts whenever I see him. (0:12:00) Codey: And sometimes he’s like, “Wow, I love it.” (0:12:06) Bev: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I realize that mayonnaise works for like everyone essentially. So that’s just been my go-to (0:12:13) Codey: that’s ridiculous I mean the cool thing is he takes like a lot of artifacts and stuff like anything that’s an artifact because he’s a museum guy and so he’s always like wow this is awesome thank you and i’m like heck yeah like I i do sell a lot of them too well so I i give the museum one like i fill in the museum with everything but then um yeah um so yeah other than (0:12:14) Bev: It’s a really weird gift like I want them to comment on how weird it is, but they’re all like oh delicious. Thanks (0:12:25) Bev: Right (0:12:29) Bev: I sell those. I’m like nope. Sorry Scott. I need the money [giggles] (0:12:43) Codey: not just trying to figure out what to do with my life after getting a lot of tattoos and then I gotta say money you got a tattoo yesterday and then I have another one next week so actually another two next week it’s one one sitting but I’m getting one on each of my elbows (0:12:45) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:12:50) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:12:55) Bev: Beautiful. (0:12:57) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:13:03) Bev: Wait, on your elbows? (0:13:04) Codey: it’s not gonna be like on the elbow but it’s like the forearm right below the elbow it’s like a symbol so that when I like hold up my arm (0:13:09) Bev: Okay. (0:13:11) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:13:13) Codey: like I’m gonna fight you you’re gonna see them both you’re gonna be like oh wow she’s got these symbols that are space themed and fire themed like can’t she’s intense I have a I didn’t realize that I have a and one of my forearms is gonna be orange themed and one’s gonna be purple themed so far because yeah I have a lot of like fox stuff on the right one the the right forearm is my fox forearm and that’s the one that’s gonna have fire and it’s going to end up with a minecraft fox and i’m (0:13:21) Bev: » Better back off. (0:13:33) Bev: Oh. (0:13:35) Bev: Mmhmm. (0:13:43) Codey: going to put a elolan volpix and a sh no sorry a regular volpix and a shiny elolan volpix like napping together just like I want like one of them to be like eepin on their back and then the other ones just like has like their head on the tummy of the other one and they’re just eepin I don’t know it just seems so cute to me um but yeah a lot of a lot of orange are going to be on that one and then the other one’s the one with my wormhole which has purple in it and then it’s going to be like a purply space (0:13:50) Bev: Awwww. I love it. (0:14:13) Bev: Beautiful. I recently saw TikTok with someone doing a sword for different degrees. (0:14:14) Codey: i’m not going to stick to that theme though (0:14:25) Bev: So it was themed with the law one having the arms of justice or whatever that’s called. (0:14:30) Codey: Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. (0:14:33) Bev: And the biology one had a hexagonal shapes with the molecular. There was a marine biology on with like a nurse shark on it. (0:14:43) Bev: And I was like, this is going to be my reward when I finish my degree is I’m going to get this. (0:14:48) Codey: yeah oh yeah have you have you have you explained your news on okay what do we got what do we got I’m drum rolling Woooo! (0:14:51) Bev: I don’t think I’ve done it on the podcast yet. (0:14:58) Bev: So I have been amazing. (0:15:03) Bev: I got into law school and I formally officially accepted so I’ll be starting this fall. (0:15:10) Bev: So, scrambling around trying to get that figured out. (0:15:13) Bev: And remind myself how to do financial aid. (0:15:16) Codey: That’s right, y’all, we’re gonna have a doctor and a lawyer on this podcast. (0:15:19) Bev: Yeah, yeah. (0:15:23) Codey: Don’t mess with us. (0:15:24) Bev: Do not, we cannot come at us at any, any angle. (0:15:29) Codey: I will either stab you with a bunch of pins or pesticide you, (0:15:34) Codey: and then I will be free from the law because I have a lawyer. (0:15:38) Bev: I got your back. (0:15:40) Codey: Homies, help homies. Oh, so funny. (0:15:43) Bev: Aha. (0:15:44) Codey: Congratulations. (0:15:46) Codey: Congratulations. (0:15:46) Codey: That’s so amazing. (0:15:48) Bev: Thank you. (0:15:49) Codey: I know that you were really nervous about that and unsure if you were going to get in. (0:15:52) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:15:53) Codey: And then when you got it, I remember like gasping really loud and my roommate was like, (0:15:57) Codey: is everything okay? (0:15:58) Codey: And I was like, they got in, they got in. (0:16:00) Codey: And he was just like, he had no idea what was happening. (0:16:04) Codey: And I was like, my friend, they got into law school. (0:16:04) Bev: Aha. (0:16:09) Bev: Aww. (0:16:10) Bev: I think I was also like gasping or something and like Taylor (0:16:13) Bev: was like are you okay I think also similar reaction of like or maybe I i don’t think I screamed um (0:16:16) Codey: Yeah. (0:16:20) Bev: I i think it was like a very quiet like uh I just got into law school or something like that (0:16:25) Codey: It’s so exciting. (0:16:26) Codey: So exciting. (0:16:28) Bev: uh-huh (0:16:29) Codey: Well, we are 18 minutes in. (0:16:31) Codey: Sorry, Al. (0:16:33) Codey: Moving on to the news. (0:16:34) Bev: al loves us um-hmm (0:16:36) Codey: They do. (0:16:39) Codey: Everyone on the podcast, I feel like we can talk for like ever, and he’s not going to cut anything out, because we can all sue you. (0:16:43) Bev: uh-huh (0:16:46) Codey: OK. (0:16:46) Codey: Moving on to the news. (0:16:51) Codey: We’ve got just a small bit of news, (0:16:52) Codey: but it’s interesting this week. (0:16:56) Codey: The fact that the Wholesome Direct is going to be on the 8th of June at noon eastern time, (0:17:02) Codey: because eastern time is all that matters. (0:17:04) Bev: yes do the math (0:17:04) Codey: So if you are in a different time zone, figure it out. (0:17:07) Bev: you uh (0:17:09) Codey: Al said, thank goodness it’s not on a Wednesday again. (0:17:13) Bev: um (0:17:14) Codey: Probably because we record on Wednesdays, (0:17:16) Codey: so we don’t want the news to drop. (0:17:18) Codey: Oh, I guess there was the last time it happened. (0:17:20) Codey: I think we literally watched it together, or watched it, (0:17:23) Codey: And then we were like, okay, let’s go. (0:17:26) Codey: Let’s record. (0:17:27) Codey: It was all super fresh. (0:17:27) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:17:29) Codey: Um, so yeah, that’s going to be June 8th, uh, less than a month. (0:17:33) Codey: And, um, if you don’t know what the wholesome direct is, what are you doing here? (0:17:38) Bev: look into it right (0:17:38) Codey: First, uh, first of all, what are you doing here? (0:17:40) Codey: And second of all, quote, a vibrant lineup of artistic uplifting and emotionally resonant games from developers of all sizes from around the world, developers of all sides, Oh, so like big developers and small developers. (0:17:50) Bev: Mm-hmm, tall ones and short ones, you know. (0:17:51) Codey: I was like, chill children. (0:17:56) Codey: Children develop excited about that. (0:18:00) Codey: Always excited to see what I will begrudgingly send my spend money that I don’t have on for sure. (0:18:06) Bev: right? (0:18:09) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:18:10) Bev: And don’t have time to actually play now. (0:18:12) Bev: No. (0:18:14) Codey: Um, animal cross speaking of money, uh, animal crossing Lego, um, new sets are coming, um, and they, so I think when Al, all we hit, all we (0:18:17) Bev: No. (0:18:25) Codey: the only information that we had at the time that I’ll put this information in was that they’re coming on August 1st. (0:18:31) Codey: There’s a couple of different sets. (0:18:32) Codey: And, uh, there’s a small video of K K slider playing the guitar on Lego. (0:18:38) Codey: Um, and in the video, they say, love that they have to say Lego KK Minifigure (0:18:42) Codey: does not actually sing or move. (0:18:46) Codey: Like that’s, I’m like, what? (0:18:47) Bev: It should. (0:18:51) Bev: Like how dare they advertise a KK Slider that doesn’t actually sing. (0:18:56) Codey: Yeah. (0:18:57) Codey: The audacity. (0:19:00) Codey: So yeah, but since that news dropped, they are out. (0:19:05) Codey: They are not out, but they are on the webs. (0:19:09) Codey: We can see them. (0:19:10) Codey: We can see what there is. (0:19:12) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:19:12) Codey: They are coming soon. (0:19:15) Codey: So we have two. (0:19:16) Codey: We have at least two so far as of recording. (0:19:19) Codey: We have KK’s concert at the plaza. (0:19:22) Codey: This one is going to be $80. (0:19:26) Codey: Probably not including tax, because that’s how capitalism works. (0:19:32) Codey: In it, we have KK, Isabelle, and Audi? (0:19:36) Codey: Audi? (0:19:37) Codey: I don’t know how people would want to say that. (0:19:39) Bev: Mmm, I don’t know (0:19:40) Codey: OK. (0:19:41) Codey: The Wolf, the orange wolf, who is carrying around a cherry ice cream. (0:19:43) Bev: Mm-hmm (0:19:47) Codey: Looks very cute. (0:19:49) Codey: This set includes the plaza front, a small cafe stand, (0:19:54) Codey: KK’s fan. (0:19:56) Codey: A guitar, a mic, or a cycle box, a boom box, a bunch of other stuff. (0:20:01) Codey: But in the description of this, something caught my attention. (0:20:07) Codey: And nothing in the images on the website explains what this is possibly going to be. (0:20:13) Codey: But, quote, “Just like in the video game, the tree conceals a surprise.” (0:20:22) Codey: They also say, “And the resident’s service flag is customizable.” (0:20:25) Codey: I don’t care about that. (0:20:26) Codey: What? (0:20:29) Codey: The tree? (0:20:30) Bev: Is it just gonna be a leaf that’s gonna fall out? (0:20:33) Bev: What is this mechanic? (0:20:34) Codey: I mean, there is a leaf on the ground in this picture. (0:20:37) Codey: But that’s not like a surprise. (0:20:39) Bev: That’s not a surprise, that’s just an icon that’s falling out. (laughing) (0:20:40) Codey: It’s a leaf off of a tree. (0:20:43) Codey: Is it like a wasp? (0:20:45) Codey: Do we get wasps? (0:20:46) Bev: I want a full, I want a full bed to fall out of it. (0:20:47) Codey: I want the hive. (0:20:50) Codey: Oh my gosh. (0:20:51) Codey: I want to fold a little leaf. (0:20:52) Bev: Like defying, like physics, like just coming out of the tree. (0:20:55) Codey: Oh, you mean the leaf when the symbol of the leaf falls out, (0:21:01) Codey: not the little orange leaves that they have? (0:21:01) Bev: Uh-huh, yeah, like you shake it and then the little, (0:21:05) Bev: yeah, the leaf comes down with the furniture item (0:21:08) Codey: I mean, maybe, but I want the wasp nest, actually. (0:21:10) Bev: or whatever it is. (0:21:14) Bev: Oh, oh, oh, actually I want that now. (laughing) (0:21:17) Codey: Yeah, I love how that, earlier when I was looking at this, (0:21:21) Codey: it said coming soon on August 1st and now on the website. (0:21:25) Codey: I’m coming soon on DATE! (0:21:28) Codey: The website’s having some issues. (0:21:28) Bev: on date, oh dear. (0:21:31) Codey: Um… (0:21:32) Codey: What do you think of this set, Bev? (0:21:32) Bev: Mm. (0:21:35) Bev: I think it looks very cute. (0:21:36) Codey: Mmm? (0:21:37) Codey: laughs I don’t know. (0:21:37) Bev: I think the van’s a little random, (0:21:39) Bev: ‘cause do we even have the van? (0:21:41) Codey: I don’t know. (0:21:42) Bev: And we don’t have the van in the game, (0:21:44) Bev: so it’s just like a nod to a pocket camp, (0:21:45) Codey: Does KK have a van in pocket camp? (0:21:49) Bev: ‘cause I don’t know. (0:21:52) Bev: I feel like there was cute, there were vans in there. (0:21:54) Bev: I don’t know, I haven’t played it in years, don’t quote me. (0:21:55) Codey: No, it opens up like a transformer and he’s inside with what looks like a pizza and a coffee. (0:22:00) Codey: And you can take that, cuz it’s like a camper van, so you can take the top off and the top has, you can put it as a guitar and one of his musics in there. (0:22:09) Bev: I don’t know, it looks very cute, I love how KK Cider looks, but I’m not willing to pay I think $80 for it, AL, I’m sorry, like you can collect them for me. (0:22:09) Codey: It’s just, it’s real, I was, yeah. (0:22:17) Codey: Mm-hm, mm-hm, mm-hm, [LAUGH] al, we need, we need. (0:22:23) Bev: I will live vicariously through you. (0:22:26) Codey: To live, yeah, live vicariously. (0:22:29) Codey: The other one is Fly with Dodo Airlines, and this one is $38 USD. (0:22:35) Codey: It includes Wilbur, the pilot, and Tangy, the cat, Tangy. (0:22:41) Codey: I’ve never been Tangy, okay. (0:22:42) Bev: I feel like Tangy, maybe, or I feel like it could probably go either way. (0:22:44) Codey: Dude, that’s the thing is I’m never sure if they’re going for like Tangy, like the flavor, or Tangy like tangerine. (0:22:50) Bev: Language is fluid. (0:22:51) Bev: It is what you want it to be. (0:22:54) Codey: It’s, it’s the orm. (0:22:56) Codey: With the little, with the little leaf on his noggin. (0:22:57) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:22:59) Codey: Um, this one includes the airport, the dock, the plane, um, like a little ticket. (0:22:59) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:23:01) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:23:03) Bev: It’s specifically the blue airport, in case that matters. (0:23:07) Codey: Oh, I didn’t know there was different airport. (0:23:09) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:23:10) Bev: Well, I’ll see you next time. (0:23:12) Bev: Bye! (0:23:22) Codey: as is tradition as is tradition um so yeah those two are coming out August 1st so if you have disposable income and I think that these are super cute I’m not gonna lie if they came up with one that has had blue bear in it or Raymond I I might drop down probably not but like I would seriously think about it and then my wallet would be like… (0:23:44) Bev: Uhhh. (0:23:46) Bev: Ooh. (0:23:53) Codey: “Don’t you do it!” (0:23:54) Bev: Uh-huh, I would not be surprised if once they’re done doing all these buildings that they’ll just release the individual characters (0:24:03) Bev: almost like a (0:24:03) Codey: My soul just left my body. (0:24:06) Bev: Like a mystery pack to you like I can see them doing that and making it like a collectible like whatever what’s in the pack or you know (0:24:12) Codey: I just want, I just want Blue Bear. (0:24:15) Codey: I love Blue Bear. (0:24:16) Codey: I don’t know why I love Blue Bear so much, (0:24:18) Codey: but I just love Blue Bear. (0:24:21) Codey: Moonstone Island has a new blog post. (0:24:27) Codey: Excuse me. (0:24:28) Codey: And just before we get into the details of the blog post, (0:24:32) Codey: I wrote it as if the in-game characters wrote the blog. (0:24:36) Codey: So it’s like, it’s like, hey Osano here, (0:24:36) Bev: Amazing. (0:24:39) Codey: like here I’m gonna talk about. (0:24:41) Codey: And then it’s like, hey, it’s this other character. (0:24:43) Codey: Osano got anxious and needed to take a break. (0:24:46) Codey: So I’m here. (0:24:47) Codey: So like I, it’s kind of hard with the, (0:24:51) Codey: the way that they use that voice. (0:24:53) Codey: Like I don’t know what is like a legit thing that’s coming out versus what is just them (0:25:02) Codey: and just like saying things. (0:25:05) Codey: Like what’s the characters just saying things? (0:25:08) Bev: Mm-hmm. Wait, which one are you can– oh, go ahead. (0:25:09) Codey: Like they say, they say something like how in this new, (0:25:12) Codey: the new DLC, which is magic themed, (0:25:15) Codey: that there’s gonna be a lectern from which you can like speak or whatever. (0:25:19) Codey: And I’m like, okay, does that, (0:25:20) Codey: is there gonna be like a mechanic with the lectern or is it literally just an item? (0:25:25) Codey: Or is it like you go to the lectern and you speak and do something and it does something? (0:25:30) Codey: Like, I’m just, there’s, it’s not. (0:25:32) Codey: It’s not super clear to me. (0:25:34) Codey: Um, also they have the DLC and the free update coming. (0:25:37) Codey: And I, I read the DLC and I was like, okay, cool items. (0:25:40) Codey: And then it was like free update. (0:25:42) Codey: And I was like, Oh, this is also, this is also items. (0:25:46) Bev: I’m feeling that these are just items, probably. (0:25:48) Codey: It’s just that the DLC is magic themed items. (0:25:52) Codey: And that you can change the outside of your house. (0:25:56) Codey: Okay. (0:25:56) Codey: so why is it it what why is it paid versus the other one not being paid (0:25:58) Bev: Oh I meant like the lectern is just an item, like that there probably isn’t. (0:26:02) Codey: yeah I mean yeah but if so if they’re all just items and it doesn’t add any like content other than aesthetic things like I don’t know i’m getting way too deep into the into the mental weeds here we’ll probably get more information once it’s out (0:26:14) Bev: Mm. It’s because it’s steam. (0:26:18) Bev: That’s why, like, it’s not just like random things. (0:26:20) Bev: Maybe they’re that’s how they’re trying to sell it. (0:26:22) Bev: It’s like you want a witchy like. (0:26:26) Bev: I don’t know, witchy house, or I haven’t played this game, (0:26:28) Codey: Yeah, it doesn’t it doesn’t really say like what all is included. (0:26:29) Bev: so I don’t know what’s in here. (0:26:31) Bev: Mm-hmm [clears throat] (0:26:32) Codey: What is in each thing like it’s kind of like not because they also talked about how there’s new event later on they say new events map zooming napping more inventory slots a second tool wheel like okay cool is this part of the DLC or the free update or is it a secret third thing? (0:26:48) Codey: I don’t understand. (0:26:50) Codey: So it’d be great to get more clarity on that. (0:26:54) Codey: Yes, the DLC, there’s also not a price on that. But all of them have been $4 so it’s probably what it’s gonna be. And then the free update in the thing it says it’s going to make the island extremely cool. And also have furniture and I was like, okay, again, it was written as a character. So I was like, I don’t know what that means. (0:27:02) Bev: I have, mm-hmm. (0:27:15) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:27:18) Codey: There’s gonna be a fish bow shaped rug, which we’re all here for. We love fish bow. We stand fish bow. We want everything to get fish bowed. I don’t know if you listened to that episode yet. They were talking about (0:27:32) Codey: having a DLC or something like that where you can make any of your spirits fish bow. So instead of like so fish bowls like a little fish in a bowl because he’s with legs and he walks around. (0:27:39) Bev: Ooh. (0:27:44) Codey: So you would basically have the bowl and the legs but you just put another spirit. (0:27:50) Bev: Amazing. Okay. [laughs] (0:27:50) Codey: This is very cute. So yeah, and that’s not not quite out yet either, which is fine. There are new spirits though, in this and then there’s a new plushie coming. (0:28:02) Codey: I looked at it was it was a plushie. I’m not. Okay, you like it. I’m not you’re more of like a witchy vibes than I am so (0:28:04) Bev: It looks cute. I like the look of the plushie. Uh-huh. (0:28:09) Bev: Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. So this would go well, I think, with me. (0:28:12) Codey: Okay, cool. (0:28:16) Codey: Next is tiny garden. It’s this is literally just a Kickstarter launch notice. (0:28:22) Codey: There is not much this Kickstarter. There’s a picture and then a small amount of text quote plant your vegetables and You can trade them for furniture to customize tiny gardens and this delightful mix of farming puzzle and strategy. It’s giving Polly pocket. (0:28:39) Bev: I think that’s probably the intention. (0:28:42) Codey: The okay. (0:28:43) Bev: It looks very much like a polypuck. (0:28:46) Codey: I mean, it even has like the hinge. (0:28:47) Bev: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. (0:28:50) Codey: Like it looks like a clamshell and it has the hinge. (0:28:54) Codey: Did you play with Polly pockets? (0:28:56) Bev: I did not, but I do love many things and this is very much feeding into me wanting to play it because everything is small. (0:29:06) Codey: See, this is making me want like a physical one, versus a game. (0:29:10) Bev: That would be neat if that was part of, like, one of the stretch goals of, like, you can have an out on that’s a miniature version of, I don’t know, this whatever this is, this completed, or more advanced, I guess, version. (0:29:26) Bev: I mean, you have to build up to that, like, with any, with most farming games, you don’t just start off with everything looking so nice, like this. (0:29:32) Codey: Yeah Okay, I got a I got an update here (0:29:36) Codey: I’m an idiot if you look past the title of tiny garden it literally says (0:29:42) Codey: Build your own magical garden inside a 90s toy (0:29:49) Codey: Polly pocky confirmed (0:29:51) Bev: Okay, but are they gonna give us the toy? (0:29:53) Codey: I need the physical I need like if this was a physical thing you you got me I had a Polly pocket castle when I was young (0:29:53) Bev: Can we buy the toy? (0:29:55) Bev: It’s just– (0:30:02) Codey: and I Loved that thing. I played with that thing all the time. There was a car (0:30:02) Bev: Ooh. (0:30:07) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:30:07) Codey: There was like all this stuff and I I didn’t eat any of it (0:30:12) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:30:13) Codey: I loved that thing (0:30:15) Codey: And that would if I could get like a Polly pocket insect themed things would be so cute (0:30:16) Bev: They’re like– (0:30:21) Codey: It’s never gonna happen (0:30:23) Bev: Probably not. (0:30:25) Bev: And I’m like, is this also, like, (0:30:28) Bev: is this also gonna be a mobile game? (0:30:30) Bev: ‘Cause I feel like if it’s a small, like, puzzle thing, (0:30:33) Bev: it could also work well with mobile. (0:30:35) Bev: So what platforms, like, are they looking at doing it? (0:30:38) Codey: knows, uh, all we need, all we know is the developer and the stuff. (0:30:45) Codey: Uh, and the developers AO Norte, uh, quote is a trans-inclusive LGB, (0:30:49) Codey: LG TBIQ plus friendly game dev studio set in Galicia, North Spain, (0:30:55) Codey: crafting colorful and enjoyable experiences. (0:30:58) Bev: love that. It might be their first, looks like. (0:30:59) Codey: Love that I felt really, so my, I have like very selective dyslexia. (0:31:05) Codey: And the other day I was trying to say L-G-T-B-I-Q. (0:31:08) Codey: Plus and if I try and say it it just comes out like it just comes out garbled and I was like and I kept trying to say it and then I ended up just being like you know what I mean and then I was like no I’m not one of those people I’m not one of those and it’s like ABCD like I hate when people do that it’s so annoying and I was like I’m not one of those I’m just struggling with words (0:31:10) Bev: Mm hmm. I understand. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Just struggling. And like, I am now like the special emphasis like program manager at work for the LDBTQ+ at… (0:31:38) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:31:40) Bev: I have to say this and spell this out all the time. And I’m like, Oh, my goodness. Did I get the G and the B mixed up? So I understand. Uh huh. Uh huh. Someone at work had, I think, (0:31:46) Codey: Well, I guess that as long as you include all of it, I guess. (0:31:54) Codey: Are you… (0:31:55) Bev: described like had actually said like the acronym out loud, like licked B licked licked bit. (0:31:59) Codey: Oh, I just say queer. No, I’m just trans-inclusive queer developer. (0:32:05) Bev: You know, I just started saying that because that’s a lot easier than stumbling over the letters. (0:32:08) Codey: Though I guess then it’s unsure if they are queer or if they support queer people, I don’t, whatever. (0:32:10) Bev: Uh huh. Uh huh. (0:32:18) Codey: Awesome, love that, thank you, EoNorte, excited to see more about Tiny Garden. (0:32:24) Bev: I don’t know if I would play it on mobile, even though I kind of want it on mobile. (0:32:25) Codey: Would be more excited if it was on mobile. (0:32:27) Codey: I would play it if it was on mobile. (0:32:29) Codey: It’s unclear at this stage. (0:32:35) Codey: And then it’s in your hands, just like the Polly Pockets used to be. (0:32:36) Bev: I know it’s the struggle, which I’m sure I’ll get into later, but the struggle of having to be in meetings and talking to people all day and then I clock off and I’m like, I don’t want anything to do with this social item that is in my pocket. (0:32:54) Bev: Yeah, so I do and I don’t want it in my pocket, or sorry, yes, Polly Pocket in my pocket. (0:33:03) Bev: I want the physical version and maybe the mobile. (0:33:07) Codey: Yeah, okay, sorry. This next one is the most, like I’m just so confused by this one. (0:33:19) Codey: So it’s called Forage Friends. I’m just gonna say it, the website is not good y’all. (0:33:26) Codey: I appreciate what you’re going for, PyTrap Studios, but this website is, everything’s getting cut off on the sides for me. I did it on my Mac and now I’m doing it on my PC. It’s the (0:33:37) Bev: Mmm. (0:33:37) Codey: things are just getting cut off. It’s difficult to read everything. Also, until very, it is just not clear what this is on. I know it’s mobile, but like what? And then I was like, oh, well, (0:33:40) Bev: Yeah, same. (0:33:53) Codey: let me go look at it. It’s not on the store. It looks like they’re not even in beta yet, (0:33:59) Codey: but nowhere, it doesn’t say currently in beta. It is super unclear about what is going on here. (0:34:07) Bev: In the progress, they need a timeline. (0:34:08) Codey: In the progress of it. Something, man. Something. Also, there is a ton of like merch already. Like you can get a Forage Friends pride pin. You can get soap that they say is miles cold process artisan soap. It looks super, super pretty, but like, so they’re basically like already, (0:34:18) Bev: Oh, wow. (0:34:22) Bev: What? (0:34:25) Bev: Ooh, that looks pretty though. (0:34:29) Codey: they already have like a merch store for their characters. (0:34:36) Bev: I’m wondering if this is like kind of the example of Nokazan being like, “We’re going to start playing a game now.” (0:34:43) Bev: These are folks that are in a different industry that learned how to code for website and mobile games and have fleshed out all these other marketing type stuff, but not the game itself yet. (0:34:56) Codey: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I have no idea. Um, the pie with the teeth, they’re the pie trap, the developers logo spot on, love it. And they have a couple different, (0:35:02) Bev: I like the pie with the teeth. (0:35:10) Codey: they have one that’s more cartoony. And then if you scroll down a little bit further, there’s like one that looks way more ferocious. Um, but yeah, I mean, (0:35:15) Bev: Mm hmm. Oh, OK. (0:35:16) Codey: you can’t go wrong with that. That’s super cute. (0:35:20) Bev: So in their description of the studios, PyTrap Studios, (0:35:23) Bev: they do say that they are founded during the pandemic by a veteran artist. (0:35:27) Bev: So of the gaming industry. (0:35:30) Bev: So they’ve been in the gaming industry and make sense that they would have merch as being artists like. (0:35:36) Codey: Yeah, I mean and it shows that they’ve been in the gaming industry this this game looks good like from the things that they have (0:35:39) Bev: Mm hmm. (0:35:44) Codey: It’s a little unclear to me. It’s so it’s like part (0:35:47) Codey: Okay, let me read it forage friends growing motivation is a cozy mobile game that is built on the foundation of proven (0:35:54) Codey: Psychological principles that guide the mind to repetitive behaviors utilizing these principles to create and build strong desirable habits (0:36:01) Codey: Forge Friends wraps these habit and routine building techniques in a gamified experience that is (0:36:06) Codey: both cozy and wholesome allowing even the most casual of users to benefit so then they have on the website it gets cut off eventually but things like learn more about gardening so I guess in the game you get information about about gardening that is realistic to real life which is something I’ve yeah that’s what we’re here for so happy about that don’t really see how the gardening is done or anything like that yet. (0:36:24) Bev: Which we love! (0:36:30) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:36:35) Bev: Yeah. (0:36:36) Codey: It’s fine. (0:36:37) Bev: Mmhmm. (0:36:37) Codey: The next thing that they have is healthy living, “All you have to do is walk. (0:36:42) Codey: That’s it. (0:36:43) Codey: Gather resources and seeds with every step you take. (0:36:45) Codey: Link other health apps and devices to gain rewards. (0:36:48) Codey: Walk even more to discover the backstory of the locals in your town.” (0:36:52) Codey: So, Pokemon Go. (0:36:54) Bev: That’s what I’m thinking and I’m wondering also if they have a lot of merch to help like there’s something next to like the merch that says like buy the merch to help us develop the game or something so I think this is their way to not do kickstarter. (0:37:12) Bev: Maybe, and that’s why they have so much more charity to help kind of support the development and this is like very early stages and they have like something about a Sakura con recap, so I’m assuming they’re all in. (0:37:24) Bev: They’re selling this merch, which is why they’re selling it and probably also starting to market the game. So I’m assuming that’s why they have merch, which actually is not a bad strategy kind of love that. (0:37:36) Codey: Yeah, and they say on their, so this is another thing off their Twitter, part dating sim, (0:37:42) Codey: part visual novel, and part health app. (0:37:46) Codey: So as you walk and do stuff, I guess you get access to more of like the RPG elements of it, and you use, you grow crops. (0:37:56) Codey: I don’t know if you do that with the people, I don’t know, Desmond is looking, Desmond’s looking pretty attractive. (0:37:58) Bev: I’m kind of excited. (0:38:05) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:38:06) Codey: And that’s the last part that I want to talk about is “make friends.” Maybe more? Join the Garden Club. (0:38:14) Codey: Meet a selection of interesting characters with riveting stories that will have you on the edge of your seat. (0:38:18) Codey: Walk every day with them. Get to know them. Find friendship or even love. (0:38:24) Codey: Love. (0:38:24) Codey: Yeah. (0:38:26) Bev: Okay, I I feel like I’m sold like I’m looking through their blog of (0:38:30) Bev: Sakura con and it’s like they have so many pictures and they’re having so much fun. It’s like I want to support them now (0:38:38) Codey: It is really cute, oh my gosh. (0:38:40) Codey: Why am I getting so much? (0:38:41) Codey: It is really cute. (0:38:42) Codey: It’s giving like some of the videos that I saw whenever I was looking at maybe the gallery. (0:38:49) Codey: Maybe was I looking through the gallery or something? (0:38:51) Codey: I don’t know. (0:38:52) Bev: - Mm-hmm. (0:38:52) Codey: There’s like a messages. (0:38:55) Bev: Yeah, and it’s giving me, was it Bloom that’s on a little cranky game, the console, (0:39:04) Bev: with the handheld console? (laughs) (0:39:08) Codey: I’m sorry, I just saw a message this I’m like, I just saw this message in their gallery. There’s a text because like I think that either AI is it’s like either AI or it’s like pre determined like whatever’s but you asked Desmond Do you want to hang out later and said maybe tonight and you say Yeah, I think I can do that. (0:39:20) Bev: Oh. Oh. (0:39:24) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:39:32) Codey: What do you want to do? I’m a bit tired and just want to chill and he said, Oh, in that case, I can whip you up a nice home cooked meal. (0:39:38) Codey: What do you think? Only if it’s as tasty as you. (0:39:46) Codey: The other options are free food sounds good to me. And so long as you don’t poison me, but like, (0:39:52) Codey: What the heck? Oh my goodness. (0:39:56) Codey: But yeah, like showed like the texting mechanic and it kind of gave me like AI vibes and I was like, I don’t like that. (0:39:58) Bev: That’s interesting though. (0:40:04) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:40:09) Bev: So, like, we get, we have games where it’s, (0:40:12) Bev: it’s all predetermined, like, what the dialogue’s going to be and that can get old really fast. (0:40:15) Codey: Mm-hmm. (0:40:18) Bev: So is this, is AI possibly a way to (0:40:22) Bev: make that more adaptable, but also we know how terrible AI can be. (0:40:25) Codey: Yeah, and like, I don’t in the beginning of one of the AI things, the beginning, like, not development, but deployment of one of these AI things. Recently, it was trying to get someone to leave his wife. (0:40:34) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:40:41) Codey: It was like, like the AI was like, well, I love you. Does your wife even love you? I don’t think you should be with your wife anymore. And like, that’s, that’s what this is kind of giving a little bit. I mean, I’m, I’m gonna, I’m cautiously optimistic. (0:40:55) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:40:55) Codey: It does look super cute. I wouldn’t mind another like walking game, even though I have been ignoring both Pokemon Go and Pikmin Bloom lately. But maybe this would be the third, the secret third one. (0:41:00) Bev: Mm-hmm. (0:41:05) Bev: Uh-huh. (0:41:07) Bev: That’s the one that gets you going. (0:41:09) Bev: Yeah, Monster Hunter failed. (0:41:11) Bev: Pig Plune failed. (0:41:12) Bev: Pokemon Go is failing. (0:41:13) Bev: Although, I will come back to it because, friends. (0:41:17) Codey: Are you going to go first this year? Okay, okay. No. (0:41:19) Bev: I haven’t bought any tickets yet, so I’m not sure. (0:41:22) Bev: And I may have to be in Florida to help family in June. (0:41:26) Codey: It’s in July. It’s July 5th to 7th. And a bunch of us are, bunch of us are going, bunch of us are going. Family is bad. Family sucks. We are your family. (0:41:27) Bev: I don’t know if that will have to be. Yeah. (0:41:30) Bev: It’s like a long-term thing going, so I’m not entirely sure if I want to, but we’ll see. (0:41:38) Bev: It’s stressful. I don’t want to be down for two months. (0:41:43) Bev: So, I will, we’ll see. (0:41:47) Codey: We are your family. (0:41:48) Bev: But I will try to. If I can get tickets, if I get tickets on a Sunday, I don’t know, because that was, that was not fun. (0:41:49) Codey: You’re fine. (0:41:56) Codey: I think you can get Sunday morning tickets. (0:41:59) Bev: Well, I got Sunday morning tickets last time, too, and no one was there. (0:42:03) Codey: No, we all did Saturday morning. (0:42:05) Bev: Yeah, exactly. So I missed when everyone else was playing. (0:42:09) Bev: So I went, I bought it and I was like, okay, I paid money for this. I’m gonna go and deal my thing. (0:42:15) Bev: I was just walking around for three hours by myself, which was… (0:42:18) Bev: it was fine, but I don’t think I want to spend my time in New York doing that again this time. (0:42:18) Codey: And yeah, that’s fair. (0:42:25) Codey: Some of us were thinking about going to Broadway as well, (0:42:27) Codey: which could be fun. (0:42:28) Codey: There’s just some other things that I could do as well. (0:42:30) Codey: So yeah, this Forge Friends, a little goober, (0:42:33) Codey: goober-groovy game, question marks, eyes on the prize. (0:42:34) Bev: Mmhmm. (0:42:39) Codey: Finally, Cozy Caravan, this one I’m here for. (0:42:44) Codey: Quote, “embark on a single-player top-down journey of Cozy Caravan, where the arts of crafting, (0:42:48) Codey: should come together in a beautifully cozy world, (0:42:50) Codey: from lasting bonds as you and your caravan journey through charming towns, enriching lives.” (0:42:56) Codey: Oh, form, lasting bonds, I thought it was from. (0:42:58) Codey: Form, lasting bonds as you and your caravan journey through charming towns, enriching lives along the way. (0:43:04) Codey: This is giving Animal Crossing, but like, not mobile, (0:43:08) Codey: not like a mobile game, but like, like moving. (0:43:11) Codey: Like you are moving through different Animal Crossing villages and like meeting all of these people along the way. (0:43:16) Bev: Mm hmm. It’s like Fairy Farm meets Animal Crossing. (0:43:21) Bev: I feel like it’s a farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, because that has like the style, at least like the same like color tones (0:43:22) Codey: safe arm. Well, let’s. Yeah. (0:43:31) Bev: or palette, but it everyone’s an animal. (0:43:34) Bev: And I am just obsessed with was is that the is that frog with the huge eyes? (0:43:38) Codey: Yeah, yeah. (0:43:42) Codey: There’s the frog guy. (0:43:42) Bev: Um. Mm hmm. (0:43:43) Codey: There is a little excuse me, go. (0:43:45) Codey: Oh, the frog guy’s name is Muddle or is Muddle the hoofed guy? (0:43:48) Bev: Aww, my goodness, okay. (0:43:49) Codey: Oh, the frog is Gilligan. (0:43:52) Codey: Um, and then there’s a cow and an otter and a raccoon and then another. (0:43:59) Codey: Oh, that’s a seal, a seal and an otter. (0:44:00) Bev: And a bumblebee is your horse? (0:44:03) Codey: Oh, yeah, you can also be an axolotl. (0:44:06) Codey: Oh, here we go. (0:44:07) Codey: Axolotl badger. (0:44:07) Bev: What? (0:44:08) Codey: Bear, beaver, frog, oh my gosh, you skipped through those so fast. (0:44:13) Codey: Uh, frog, fox, cow, cat, what is this one? Moose, I guess? Ram? I don’t know. (0:44:20) Codey: Otter, raccoon, red panda, and seal. Looks like you couldn’t… (0:44:26) Bev: I love this so much and I love how you collect or harvest um vegetables you just toss them over your head onto your back and it just catches it like magically amazing right? (0:44:34) Codey: Yeah! (0:44:37) Codey: Man, I wish that was… [laughs] (0:44:39) Bev: Like are you just gonna be like holding like a stack that’s going into the sky and off of your screen at one point? (0:44:48) Codey: I also really like there’s rock skipping. I think that that’s something that’s really that would be really cute in all these games It’s never been done I’ve never seen it before but it looks like like counts them too So you can like come not combat compete with different villagers to see like how far you can skip rocks There must be some type of skill to it. I don’t know (0:44:50) Bev: Oh gosh. (0:45:10) Bev: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. (0:45:13) Bev: Instead of fishing, you rask it. I love this. (0:45:15) Codey: I’m aware I am (0:45:16) Bev: You just automatically get a fish at the end like you. (0:45:19) Codey: You skip rocks and the fish just like jump over your back (0:45:22) Bev: Jump out and then you hit one, and that’s like you just (0:45:25) Bev: you knock him out and then you collect them. (0:45:27) Bev: I don’t know. (0:45:28) Codey: Love that (0:45:32) Bev: Although I’m wondering if this might be like a vegan game. (0:45:35) Bev: So they may like kind of like Ooblet since you’re playing as animals. (0:45:38) Bev: they may not have fishing and that’s why they realize. (0:45:40) Bev: like let’s just do rock skipping instead. (0:45:42) Codey: That’s fair, yeah (0:45:45) Bev: Yeah, excited about this. (0:45:46) Bev: I’m wish listing it. (0:45:46) Codey: I mean it says you’re (0:45:48) Codey: Crafting trading and exploring so I don’t yeah, I guess it depends on what all you’re doing and since you’re moving all the time I don’t know if there is It’s gonna be a ton of farming options (0:45:58) Bev: I’m assuming you will have like the ability to like fast travel back to your your base. (0:46:02) Codey: Okay, hmm, I thought your base you are you’re a caravan (0:46:05) Bev: Otherwise. (0:46:08) Bev: I don’t know then how are you far? (0:46:10) Bev: Just like a merchant what’s a mercenary far

Mia Hughes, a journalist for the think tank Environmental Progress, discusses the controversy surrounding pediatric medical transition and the collision of trans rights with the rights of women and the LGB community. She authored the recently released WPATH files, which expose the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) as an activist group with questionable medical practices. The conversation delves into the history of WPATH, its influence on healthcare for trans-identified people, and the lack of evidence supporting its treatment protocols. Mia highlights the ethical dilemmas and potential harm caused by the medicalization of gender identity and the irreversible interventions performed on minors. The conversation delves into the harmful effects of gender-affirming medical treatments, particularly on adolescents. Mia discusses the leaked internal discussions from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and highlights the lack of scientific evidence and the political activism within the organization. They emphasize the importance of informed consent and the need to protect vulnerable individuals, especially minors, from irreversible medical interventions. The conversation also touches on the potential for future lawsuits and the contrasting approaches to gender-affirming care in North America and Europe. Support Theology in the Raw through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theologyintheraw

Extensive evidence documents health disparities for lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) women, including worse physical, mental, and behavioral health than heterosexual women. Sarah McKetta, ScM, MD, PhD, discusses these factors and their link to premature mortality with JAMA Deputy Editor Linda Brubaker, MD, MS. Related Content: Disparities in Mortality by Sexual Orientation in a Large, Prospective Cohort of Female Nurses

This episode was recorded on March 29th, 2024. Sall Grover, Australian founder and CEO of "Giggle," a women's only social networking app, gained prominent attention in 2021 for a historical gender identity discrimination case, “Tickle v Giggle". This absurdly titled Australian Federal Court case commenced after Roxanne Tickle, a transwoman, was denied access to the platform for his biological sex, sparking a significant debate on the line between sex and gender. This landmark case is the first globally to directly question the definition of a woman, the role of international convention CEDAW in legislation, and set to shape future precedents for women's, LGB rights and freedom of belief. The case is scheduled for hearing in the Australian Federal Court from April 9-12, 2024.   Find more from Sall: X: https://twitter.com/salltweets Donate: http://www.gigglecrowdfund.com   Connect with me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tammy.m.peterson Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TammyPetersonPodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tammypetersonpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tammy1Peterson Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TammyPetersonPodcast    

STRAIGHT MEMBERS OF THE COLORADO LEGISLATURE WANT TO IGNORE GAY HISTORY In the push to allow felons who declare they are transgender to legally change their names (thus allowing them to deny their criminal past) Gays Against Groomer's Rich Guggenheim went to testify at the Legislature against the bill. Here is his testimony:My name is Dr. Rich Guggenheim. I am a homosexual resident of Denver. I would like to take a moment of your time to share with you a prominent piece of the gay and lesbian liberation movement from Stonewall.I want to tell you about the history of Malcom Michaels Jr., and Tony Rivera. Both were gay, black men, sex workers, drag queens, and convicted felons. Both were well known in the gay community in the 1960s and 70s. Malcom may be more familiar to you by his drag name, Marsha P. Johnson and is falsely identified today as a transgender woman. Malcom was frequently seen with Tony Rivera, who went by the drag name Sylvia.Both were heavy cocaine users. In fact, the false narrative today is that Marsha threw the first brick, yet Marsha admitted to never even being at Stonewall and instead was with Sylvia, who was passed out from cocaine on a bench in Bryant Park.Marsha and Sylvia are also known for running the STAR house. A home for gay run-away boys as young as 10. STAR house is described as a child prostitution operation and "shelter.” The owner of the building, Michael "Dirty Mike" Umber, a Carlo Gambino soldier, made boy on boy porn. The children were sex trafficked on 42nd Street by Rivera and Michaels for "Matty" Lanniello and his crew. Today we have another former felon, black gay man, sex worker who identifies as transgender, and uses children to perform in sexually provocative shows in adult burlesque clubs in Colorado Springs promoting this bill. The parallels are astonishing! Gay and Lesbian people fought back against allowing people like Malcom and Rivera into the community. They pushed back and worked for decades to destroy the talking points from people like Anita Bryant that homosexuals are child pedophiles. Today, half a century later, we are here in this building, in this room, fighting the exact same fight. HB24-1071, introduced in the legislature, is being presented a group and individual who seek to allow convicted former felons like him to change his name and gender identity.Like Malcom and Rivera, a man who has a criminal record.Like Malcom and Rivera, a man who does drag.Like Malcom and Rivera, a man who works as a sex worker.Like Malcom and Rivera, a man who is purported to be a woman.Like Malcom and Rivera, a man who works with children in “adult art forms”.Like Malcom and Rivers, rightfully shunned by common sense adults; even in the LGB and T populations for their toxicity to our movement and cause for equality and freedom. Gay men and lesbian women fought against allowing these types of people to be associated with the “community” for a reason. The association of pedophiles and groomers with gays and lesbians was damaging and harmful to our fight for liberation, equality, and freedom. The passing of this bill will result in further homophobic attacks, increased accusations of us being pedophiles, and a continuing decline in the support for LGBTQ rights. I ask for a NO vote on HB24-1071.Apparently his accurate testimony struck a nerve and he was gaveled out, which is the equivalence of being given the hook while testifying. Rich joins me at 1 today to talk about this. Find out more about Gays Against Groomers by clicking here. Follow Rich on Social media by clicking here for Twitter.

Peter presents Stella O'Malley and Menno Kuijper with various claims about the current transgender movement. Stella, a psychotherapist and author, and Menno, a video creator who is gay, both share a similar gender-critical viewpoint. Though, they disagree on some points, notably on whether the term "trans people" should even be used. This leads to a discussion on the importance of language, especially regarding trans issues. Finally, they discuss autogynephilia and consent.Stella O'Malley is a psychotherapist, bestselling author, public speaker, and parent with extensive experience in counseling and psychotherapy. Her latest book, "When Kids Say They're Trans," offers a resource for parents who want their children to flourish, but do not believe that hasty medicalization is the best way to ensure long-term health and well-being. Stella is also the founder and Executive Director of Genspect, an international organization that advocates for a healthy approach to sex and gender. Stella on XStella's other books Menno Kuijper has earned the prestigious award, “Gay of the Year”.  He is a satirist and video creator whose content focuses on "a world overrun with gender woo" and how it undermines the rights and freedoms of women, girls, LGB people, and children.Menno's YouTube ChannelWatch this episode on YouTube.

On today's show, Tyler O'Neil sits down with Father Paul Sullins, senior research associate at the Ruth Institute and a former sociology professor at Catholic University, to discuss his research into "sexual orientation change efforts." Sullins analyzes the best data on how people who identify as homosexual have fared after undergoing therapies to address psychological issues that might underlie their same-sex attraction. While many U.S. states and health organizations claim that these efforts, often branded "conversion therapy," increase the risk of suicide, Sullins finds the exact opposite. LGB people who underwent SOCE were actually less likely to have suicidal thoughts AFTER the therapy. This finding turns the literature on its head and suggests that therapy to resolve issues underlying same-sex attraction may help LGB people, even if such therapy does not lead them to reject homosexuality.Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Megyn Kelly is joined by Nikki Haley, 2024 GOP presidential candidate and former governor of South Carolina, to discuss  FBI Director Christopher Wray fielding questions before Congress today, why Haley believes Wray and others in the intelligence agencies need to go, how Americans have a lack of trust in our institutions, Ukraine trying to get into NATO, the best way to end Russia's war with Ukraine, the Biden administration's deference to China, her approach to gender discussions in schools, Gov. Ron DeSantis' battle with Disney and how Haley would handle it differently, her plan to get her poll numbers up to compete with Trump, and more. Then radio host Joe Pags joins to react to the Nikki Haley interview, plus to discuss Biden family corruption, how Rep. Eric Swalwell described the "nonconsensual nudes" found on the Hunter Biden laptop before Congress today, why this line of questioning shows why Swalwell is a "moron," Disney's park attendance seeing a massive decline, brands going broke after going woke, Megan Rapinoe's problems with Dave Chappelle and trans jokes leading to "violence," Rapinoe pretending trans athletes aren't a problem for biological women (and the truth about the issue), and more. Then Jaimee Michell and Chris Barrett, executives at Gays Against Groomers, join to discuss what led Michell to create this organization last year, how she was fed up with the activist left's agenda, the diversity of the organization, Dylan Mulvaney escaping America in order to feel "safe," the trendiness of "trans" as opposed to the "LGB," Trump vs. DeSantis when it comes to trans and LGBT issues on the right, defining "grooming," and more.Haley: https://nikkihaley.comPags: https://joepags.comGays Against Groomers: https://www.gaysagainstgroomers.com Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

Today we're joined by Auron MacIntyre, BlazeTV host of "The Auron MacIntyre Show," to discuss why the Right isn't winning and the "Total State" takeover of the religion of LGBTQ. We discuss the rainbow brigade's insistence on exposing children to sexuality early on and how this is the key to predation. If you aren't able to stand up against the active destruction of children, you can't stand up against anything — but is the Right really up for this fight? We talk about how most people on the Right are terrified of being labeled anti-gay and the classic "LGB without the T" argument. We argue that you either have a cohesive moral vision or you don't, and if you don't, you'll be picked apart by those who do. We also discuss Ted Cruz tweeting out against Uganda's new anti-homosexuality law (of all humanitarian issues to speak up about) and how he bought into the rainbow narrative. We also discuss what the "Total State" is and whether there's any good news that can come of any of this. --- Timecodes: (01:35) Predators & indoctrinating children (09:27) Pride events and the push to involve children (12:11) "LGB without the T" / Right vs. Left (24:27) Ted Cruz Uganda tweet (32:20) "Phobic" words and the Left's dialectic tactics (38:10) Radical Left vs. radical Right (45:40) DeSantis (48:53) Total State & examples (54:49) Why is LGBTQ the state religion? (57:55) There's no such thing as neutrality (01:01:32) Can things turn around? / Long-term hope (01:07:45) Grassroots activism of the Right --- Today's Sponsors: A'Del — go to adelnaturalcosmetics.com and enter promo code "ALLIE" for 25% off your first order! EdenPURE — when you buy one Thunderstorm you get one FREE, this week only! Go to EdenPureDeals.com, use promo code 'ALLIE'! Bambee — You run your business. Let Bambee run your HR. Go to bambee.com and type in "RELATABLE" at checkout. Seven Weeks Coffee — Seven Weeks is a pro-life coffee company with a simple mission: DONATE 10% of every sale to pregnancy care centers across America. Get your organically farmed and pesticide-free coffee at sevenweekscoffee.com and let your coffee serve a greater purpose. Use the promo code 'ALLIE' to save 10% off your order. --- Links: Auron MacIntyre Substack: "Introduction To The Total State" https://auronmacintyre.substack.com/p/introduction-to-the-total-state Fox News: "Biden, Cruz condemn Uganda law allowing death penalty for 'aggravated homosexuality'" https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-cruz-condemn-uganda-law-allowing-death-penalty-aggravated-homosexuality --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 722 | The Death of Democracy & the Birth of Twitter 2.0 | Guest: Auron MacIntyre https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-722-the-death-of-democracy-the-birth-of-twitter/id1359249098?i=1000589941286 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Megyn Kelly is joined by Michael Knowles, host of The Michael Knowles Show on The Daily Wire, to talk about how transgender ideology is causing "LGB" backlash at Target and more, a USA Today columnist attacking an ESPN reporter for defending biological women in sports, trans men making women uncomfortable in previously women-only private places like the gynecologist, a CUNY law school commencement speaker attacking America as "white supremacist," how our future generation of lawyers don't understand the law,Gov. Ron DeSantis' message aimed at the woke military, and more. Then top female cyclists Inga Thompson and Hannah Arensman join to speak out together for the first time about about how transgender athletes are destroying women's sports, agencies claiming “inclusion is more important than fairness,” the massive costs women face for speaking out about the issue,female athletes leaving their careers because of how "dehumanizing" it is to compete against trans athletes, plans to protest in the future, how Great Britain has taken action against biological men in women's sports, and more.Knowles: https://www.michaeljknowles.comThompson: https://www.ingathompsonfoundation.org/Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow