Welcome to season two of TranCisTer Radio. This season we have had a change up of one of our co-hosts. Dana will no longer be available to record our lovely podcast as she has moved on to other projects. We sadly thought for quite some time that this podcast might fade away into the vastness of the internet depths, but luckily my lovely wife Jodie has decided to step up and join us as my new co-host!
In this first episode of the second season we begin by discussing student questions that I receive when I give speeches at various local colleges. This episode’s question is How do you address transgender humans? My first thought was that you address humans the way that they ask to be addressed. However that doesn’t cover all of the times that one might just encounter people in our complex world.
So just how exactly do you address people when you aren’t really sure what gender they are? Maybe the bigger question here is why does it matter what gender someone is in order to address a human properly? Is our society too focused on gender as an attribute?
Our second segment in this episode is about the surgery that I had this past June. Which at the time of this episode write up was actually almost a year ago at this point. Initially these episodes were intended to be published at an earlier time but life got in the way. So we’re just going to go with it as best we can.
Anywho, last June I had gender confirmation surgery. I’m not sure if I think that is the best way to name the surgery I had, but I know it is far better than sex reassignment surgery. Ugh, that name gives me the absolute creeps!
I am typically relatively open with most aspects of my transition however I have chosen to be a bit more private about this surgery. In many ways this was a deeply personal decision and I felt protective over the experience. I have tried to overcome my personal emotions about my reservations and have tried to share a bit about the experience of having your genitals operated on to completely transform their appearance and function.
Our final segment is What the heck science?! Today we discuss various ways of disposing of a human body after someone has passed away. That sounds rather nefarious however these ideas are legal alternatives to the traditional forms of body disposal like burial or cremation. Apparently there are a large variety of other ways that human remains can be legally disposed of. It can be a touchy subject, but the reality is that sooner or later we are all going to have something done with our bodies once we are no longer operating them.
That is about it for this episode. Thank you for being here. We super appreciate you listening to us and we hope you are intrigued enough to keep tuned in for our coming episodes.
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