Christian fundamentalists & right-wing Republicans try to create the impression that transgender identity is the concoction of a leftist woke mob but Out-FM's Pauline Park argues that the story of the Chevalier d’Éon shows that there were people who anticipated contemporary transgender identities going back centuries.

(Eduardo Antonello on the harpsichord)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdjirn-ywpM

 

Intersex is not one specific thing, it's a multidimensional phenomenon found throughout nature.

Pauline Park interviews Carrie Gabriel Costello is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is also an intersex trans man. Who is married to an intersex trans woman. And we're going to talk about intersex, what it is, what it isn't. Its relationship to transgender, and what the implications are for public policy and for society.

One of the things that was constantly asserted in the recent election was that there two and only two sexes. You're assigned to a biological sex, that's it. There's no such thing as gender identity apart from the sex you're assigned at birth. But you know, both from personal experience and also from deep study and knowledge of this issue, that there are, in fact more than two sexes. In this show we’ll talk about the sex gender binary and how it's a false dichotomy.

1. Costello's sociology blog, A Sociological Eye:  https://asociologicaleye.blogspot.com/
   1. The election post discussed in the interview is on that blog here: https://asociologicaleye.blogspot.com/2024/11/How-not-to-think-about-2024-election.html
2. Costello intersex blog, The Intersex Roadshow: https://intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/
   1. My 101 post on that blog is here: https://intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/2009/04/intersex-101_28.html
3. Costello trans advocacy blog, TransFusion: https://trans-fusion.blogspot.com/
   1. My post about bans on trans youth playing sports: https://trans-fusion.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-real-problem-when-it-comes-to-trans.html

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Anne-christine d’Adesky (center) at Fall 2024 Rally

                    

Jay W. Walker

As we steel ourselves for tomorrow's launch of the shock-and-awe onslaught, Out-FM's Stahimili Mapp and Bob Lederer will speak with two founders/leaders of the Resisting Project 2025 campaign and longtime queer liberation activists: Anne-christine d'Adesky and Jay W. Walker. This will be a full-hour post-inauguration debrief of the key Trump 2.0 agenda points, “Day One” attacks on trans people and others, workplace immigration raids, and more. We'll also discuss what the launch of grassroots Resistance 2.0 looks like and how you can get involved. 

More info: resistingproject2025.substack.com, Bluesky, and X.

Analysis of Specific Trump policies & how to oppose them: Democracy 2025 EO+ Response Center

Immigration Policy Tracking Project - updated for Trump 2.0; will post policy actions as they occur 

Additional readings on Resisting Trump 2.0, by Anne-christine d’Adesky:

Shock and Awe, Meet Resistance 2.0 (Jan. 19, 2025)

As Trump unleashes a Day One menu of J6 pardons, 100 Executive Orders, and ICE Operation Safeguard, and more, the resistance troops are ready for Day One action.

Trump 2.0 Is Project 2025

Despite Trump’s denialism, 36 of his 66 nominees are tied to Project 2025, we found. As we brace for a shock-and-awe “Day One” assault on our democracy, progressives plot resistance. A 2-part report.

Trump 2.0 is Project 2025: Readying for "Day One." A report on the early resistance. (Pt. 2 of 2)

What to expect on "Day One" of Trump 2.0 as Project 2025 is weaponized to unleash a shock-and-awe assault on our democracy, and progressives plan a nascent counter-offensive.

The Politics of Retribution

How Project 2025 and allies are taking a page from Joe McCarthy

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