In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi mark the beginning of Pride month by talking about kids and pride! Raimi shares some of the history of Pride and the different approaches and events that make up our current celebrations. Marcelle and Raimi interrogate the concern that Pride is an inappropriate space for kids, and instead highlight the importance of community spaces for people of all ages.

You can find a compilation of resources, corresponding with each episode's topic on our webpage, at ohwitchplease.ca/gender-playground.

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Gender Playground is a new show from Witch, Please Productions and is co-hosted by longtime friends Marcelle Kosman and Raimi Marx. This podcast is all about gender-affirming care for the kids in your life, and YOU are the intended audience! Whether you're a caregiver, parent, family-member, chosen-family-member, teacher, doctor, childcare professional, or just someone who wants to create a more loving world for kids, this show is for you!

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In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi look closely at the misconception that trans children are a new phenomenon. They discuss the emergence of terms like ‘transtrender’ or ‘rapid onset gender dysphoria,' and consider the long history of trans-ness in children. Then, Marcelle offers a historical and material analysis of the social constructs we have around children, and, with Raimi, considers the value of surfacing, exploring and honoring trans histories.

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Books Referenced by Raimi:

Histories of the Trans Child by Jules Gill-Peterson, 2018.

Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyem, 2022.

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Gender Playground is a new show from Witch, Please Productions and is co-hosted by longtime friends Marcelle Kosman and Raimi Marx. This podcast is all about gender-affirming care for the kids in your life, and YOU are the intended audience! Whether you're a caregiver, parent, family-member, chosen-family-member, teacher, doctor, childcare professional, or just someone who wants to create a more loving world for kids, this show is for you!

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In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi talk with special guest and associate producer of the pod, Reese, about detransition and retransition. Following the previous episode's conversation on transition and autonomy, Reese shares their experience with de/re-transition and the trio discuss the fears, guilt and shame that make up the political and social ‘boogeyman’ of detransition.

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Citations:

Defining Detransition

MacKinnon, Kinnon Ross, Pablo Expósito-Campos, and W. Ariel Gould. "Detransition needs further understanding, not controversy." bmj 381 (2023).

Physician Education and Fears:

MacKinnon, Kinnon R., et al. "Preventing transition “regret”: An institutional ethnography of gender-affirming medical care assessment practices in Canada." Social Science & Medicine 291 (2021): 114477.

Other Sources:

Hall, R., Mitchell, L., & Sachdeva, J. (2021). Access to care and frequency of detransition among a cohort discharged by a UK national adult gender identity clinic: Retrospective case-note review. BJPsych Open, 7(6), e184.

Hughes, Laine. "Wronging the right-body narrative: On the universality of gender uncertainty." Current critical debates in the field of transsexual studies. Routledge, 2018. 181-193.

MacKinnon, Kinnon R., et al. "Health care experiences of patients discontinuing or reversing prior gender-affirming treatments." JAMA Network Open 5.7 (2022): e2224717-e2224717.

Narayan, Sasha Karan, et al. "Guiding the conversation—types of regret after gender-affirming surgery and their associated etiologies." Annals of Translational Medicine 9.7 (2021).

Turban, Jack L., et al. "Factors leading to “detransition” among transgender and gender diverse people in the United States: A mixed-methods analysis." LGBT health 8.4 (2021): 273-280.

You can find more resources and research on the Gender Playground website at ohwitchplease.ca/gender-playground.

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Gender Playground is a new show from Witch, Please Productions and is co-hosted by longtime friends Marcelle Kosman and Raimi Marx. This podcast is all about gender-affirming care for the kids in your life, and YOU are the intended audience! Whether you're a caregiver, parent, family-member, chosen-family-member, teacher, doctor, childcare professional, or just someone who wants to create a more loving world for kids, this show is for you!

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