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Exulansic: The Transgender Wars

KEY MOMENTS

0:00 – Intro: Exulansic on gender medicine and detransition
1:47 – What "exulansic" means
5:02 – Her own experience identifying as trans
6:56 – The rise of pronoun introductions
7:58 – Lou's ESL pronouns sketch, and gender in English
10:39 – Can language change reality?
13:14 – Lou's college sex and gender class
15:21 – Judith Butler and the theory of queering
16:26 – Autism, social pragmatics, and gender identity
25:34 – What phalloplasty and metoidioplasty involve
29:15 – Surgical complications Exulansic has documented
32:00 – Medicalized as minors
33:06 – A facial feminization surgery that ended in a stroke
35:13 – Vaginectomy, fistulas, and a colostomy bag
39:22 – What testosterone does to the female body
45:00 – Irreversible changes and aging tissue
46:08 – Colon vaginoplasty and a detransitioner's story
49:23 – Puberty blockers explained
50:33 – Jazz Jennings and I Am Jazz
51:56 – Puberty blockers, weight gain, and Prader-Willi syndrome
57:51 – Pressure on gay and lesbian people to date trans people
59:25 – Sex vs. gender and non-binary identities
1:02:39 – Gender identity as a secular soul
1:05:12 – Hope, social contagion, and a lobotomy comparison
1:09:17 – Where to find Exulansic and wrap-up

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

Exulansic joins Lou to talk about gender medicine and detransition, her own experience identifying as trans, the surgical complications she has documented, and Jazz Jennings' waking nightmare on I Am Jazz.

We also get into what "exulansic" means, the rise of pronoun introductions, Lou's ESL pronouns sketch, Lou's college sex and gender class, Judith Butler and the theory of queering, autism and gender identity, what testosterone does to the female body, puberty blockers explained, Prader-Willi syndrome, pressure on gay and lesbian people to date trans people, and gender identity as a secular soul.

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