
What The Trans!?
LGBT
UK-based news podcast for trans and non-binary folks and our allies. Join snarky trans fact-finding team Michelle and Ashleigh as they dissect the news, interview guests and chat about pop culture.
UK-based news podcast for trans and non-binary folks and our allies. Join snarky trans fact-finding team Michelle and Ashleigh as they dissect the news, interview guests and chat about pop culture.
Location:
United Kingdom
Description:
UK-based news podcast for trans and non-binary folks and our allies. Join snarky trans fact-finding team Michelle and Ashleigh as they dissect the news, interview guests and chat about pop culture.
Twitter:
@whatthetrans
Language:
English
Contact:
07929766257
Email:
whatthetranz@gmail.com
Episodes
EP73 - One Party State? W/Brynn Tannehill
5/3/2022
CN: Cultural genocide, extremist governments, authoritarianism, racism, LGBT phobia, dystopia, Fascism This bi-week:
Things get dark.
The UK Goverment has pushed through four bills that really change how the UK works, and not in a good way.
Also the US is having a dark turn also.
Researcher, writer and academic Brynn Tannehill talks to us about the alarming future the states face.
This episode is a rough one.
References:...
Duration:01:47:34
EP72 - Conversion Therapy Ban U-Turn and talking April Ashley with Felix Moore
4/20/2022
Look at this! We made another podcast that is mostly on time! This bi-week:
Michelle gets approached by the Daily Mail
The government bins trans people from the conversion therapy ban: we report from the massive protest from London
And Ashleigh talks to trans history expert Felix Moore about the mighty April Ashley.
References: https://www.whatthetrans.com/ep72/
https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:01:26:00
EP 71: New trans MP and why GRT communities need you!
4/5/2022
This episode contains references to rape and cultural genocide, specifically about GRT communities.
On this episode Ashleigh talks about being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
We talk about the first trans MP and the strangest coming out that we have ever seen.
And we talk to Percy from LGBT Traveller Pride about how the new policing bill is the worst.
References: https://www.whatthetrans.com/ep71/
https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:00:57:51
EP 70 - Feminists stood up for transgender people in the 70's
1/12/2022
This episode:
Politicians hilariously fail to stick us in the wrong prisons! (Can a prison ever be right?)
Far right goons are taking blockers to fight COVID. Yes, really.
And we talk to writer and researcher Felix Moore about how none of this anti-trans 'feminism' crap is new.
References: https://www.whatthetrans.com/ep70/
https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:01:07:31
EP 69 - Nice (Kink, protests and accidental sex parties)
12/14/2021
This week:
The BBC did bad so Michelle went to MANY PROTESTS
The government's conversion therapy ban doesn't ban conversion therapy?
We talk about kink because, you gotta for the 69th episode
And Michelle stole an award from a child.
References: https://www.whatthetrans.com/ep69/
https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:01:19:24
EP 68 - Why we were gone and a chat with a trans asylum seeker
11/29/2021
This week we explain why we were gone so long.
But more importantly, we went and talked to a trans man who is stuck in the kafkaesque asylum nightmare in the UK. If you want to know the real story when it comes to how the immigration system treats people...listen to this right now.
https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:00:54:40
EP67 - Michelle counts bigots at the LGB Alliance conference
10/29/2021
No we aren’t dead
This week:
- Michelle covers the anti-LGB Alliance protest outside their garbage conference!
- Pride in Surrey speaks out against transphobic police commissioner!
- A trans woman (the hilarious Jen Ives) gets treated like garbage by LGB Alliance randoms!
- Michelle chats to the Transgender action block about the importance of protesting bellends
References: https://bit.ly/319r0X3
https://www.Whatthetrans.com
https://www.linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:00:34:14
EP66 - Trans Pride London, the media is enabling the far right and we get a government document!
7/9/2021
Big episode
We cover Trans Pride London featuring Hollyoak's Ki Griffin, YouTube's Abigail Thorn and Kae Tempest
We get a government document that shows Dr Michael Brady was not the reason GRA reform was binned (as well as showing that this Government suck even more than we thought)
And we look at how the UK media's transphobia has enabled the far right as well as going over the Wi Spar horror show
References: https://bit.ly/2TRZQRa
https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:01:19:38
EP65 - Truss just bins the whole LGBT (and part 2 of our chat with Christine Burns!)
6/29/2021
So this is a weird episode
We finish our chat with Christine Burns!
We talk Stonewall founding with Lord Michael Cashman!
We dissect Liz Truss's latest nonsense!
We get angry over the government ignoring Non-Binary people!
And Michelle gets in Graham Linehan's head!
https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:01:32:57
EP 64: Christine Burns on trans activism in the 90's (part 1)
5/20/2021
This week there is TOO MUCH NEWS
The EHRC are called out by LGBT Orgs!
A court case in Northern Ireland is COMPLICATED!
Trans masculine surgeries halted on the NHS!
And we talk with trans activist legend Christine Burns about how Coronation Street helped advance trans rights in the 90's!
(As well as LOADS of other stuff).
References: https://bit.ly/3u6QJrO
https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:01:36:17
EP 63: The Stonewall Interview
5/13/2021
This week we chat to Stonewall CEO Nancy Kelley about media lies, the LGB Alliance gaining charity status, conversion therapy and the biggest myths about Stonewall (#StonewallDeepState).
We also cover the latest developments from Parliament's GRA reform inquiry!
References: https://bit.ly/2RROziF
https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:01:12:12
EP 62: We speak to activists you need to know about.
5/7/2021
This week:
Government finds a way to make cutting the price of a gender recognition certificate suck.
Thousands of non-binary people demand recognition.
YET MORE GC NIGHTMARES IN THE COURTS
And we speak to the AMAZING Trans Safety Network and an artist who is taking over Cardiff!
References: https://bit.ly/3eszRrd
https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:01:05:19
EP61: This is what emotional abuse is and how transphobia enables it
4/23/2021
CN: Abuse, child abuse, transphobia, references to transphobic organisations and 'thought leaders' and one audio clip of Posie fucking Parker.
Michelle breaks down what emotional abuse is and how transphobia enables it.
If you have been effected by the issues raised on this podcast please go here for more information: https://bit.ly/32EMzfF
https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:00:32:02
EP 60: Good news except for Arkansas, microaggressions and yelling at Dave Chappelle
4/8/2021
This week:
- The Bell V Tavistock decision has been significantly undone!
- Arkansas does it's own Bell V Tavistock only far worse!
- Working life for trans people exposed!
- We discuss microaggressions FROM SOCIETY
- And Michelle talks about telling Dave Chappelle to go f**k himself (he deserved it).
References: https://bit.ly/3s41Wsc
https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:01:01:48
How the UK's Government has abused trans people and tried to look doing it
3/14/2021
The UK Government has abused trans people for the last 12 months.
People need to know what they have done.
Please share this everywhere.
https://www.whatthetrans.com/the-uk-government-has-abused-trans-people-for-a-year/
Duration:00:08:40
EP 59: This pod is very late and too long because bigots attacked the Census
3/12/2021
This was the news week that never ended.
3 hero's quit government advisory committee to protest anti-LGBT nonsense!
Transphobic trouble from the House of Lords!
Fairplay For Women SUCK!
And we break down the latest on the Census with Census Engagement Manager Adam Dale!
References: https://bit.ly/3lch8lx
https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:01:18:22
EP 58: We made a whole other show! Also there is a census!
3/3/2021
This week we have something very different: a whole other show!
What The Trans: Nights is our new monthly podcast that is available to patrons now and will be made available to everyone in 6 months!
On this episode, we tell our coming out stories and fight anti-semitism by sharing the contents of our desks!
Also it is the census! Click the link below for more info!
References: https://bit.ly/3q8WTFX
Podcast links sheet: https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:00:38:06
EP 57: Awesome Cis Allies W/ David Paisley & Grace Petrie!
2/24/2021
This week we talk to two amazing cisgender allies who have stood up for the trans community in very cool ways.
Grace Petrie, folk singing, transphobia slaying guitar god
&
David Paisley, LGB Alliance botherer and actor on BBC Scotlands River City!
References: https://bit.ly/3r4lsp7
Podcast links sheet: https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:01:16:13
EP 56: We gotta think of the trans kids part 2
2/17/2021
Last week we talked the legal ramifications of the Bell V Tavistock puberty blocker bull....AHEM... so this week we talk to people effected on the ground. We talk to trans youths, a parent and the folks at GenderGP.
References: https://bit.ly/3qvtSWa
Podcast links sheet: https://linktr.ee/whatthetrans
Duration:01:15:04
EP 55: We gotta think of the trans kids part 1
2/9/2021
Everything is terrible. The High Court has ruled that under 16's are incapable of giving consent to puberty blockers. This week:
We examine the Bell/Mrs A vs Tavistock judgement.
We look at how religious extremist hate groups may have influenced the decision.
We talk to the Good Law Project's Jolyon Maugham about their Trans legal defence fund and their plans for fighting this judgement.
And Ashleigh is sick and Michelle owns two Tamagotchis.
References:...
Duration:01:11:19