Gender Playground

As we wrap up this first season of Gender Playground, we are thinking about the future! In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi consider the importance of seeing trans adults living joyful, creative, and fulfilling lives. Marcelle tells Raimi how much they informed her own relationship to Billie's future. Raimi offers insight into the normalcy around parental worry, and offers some advice on how to relate to fear in a way that protects trans kids in your life. Together they offer some recommendations and resources and we end with a very special shoutout to our episode ten sponsor.

If you enjoy this episode, please share it with family and friends! To learn how to sponsor an episode, head to ohwitchplease.com/sponsorships. And to help support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review and send the show to family and friends! This episode marks the end of season one. More to come!

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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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How can we as caring adults respond when our children grow beyond our imagination? And how do we, as caring adults, deal with our emotions as we adjust our emotional investments? This week, Marcelle and Raimi work through these questions and discuss gender coded experiences and narratives that we as parents and guardians place on our children.

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

If you enjoy this episode, please share it with family and friends! To learn how to sponsor an episode, head to ohwitchplease.com/sponsorships. And to help support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review and send the show to family and friends!

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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 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. 

If you enjoy this episode, please share it with family and friends! To learn how to sponsor an episode, head to ohwitchplease.com/sponsorships. And to help support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review and send the show to family and friends!

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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.

If you enjoy this episode, please share it with family and friends! To learn how to sponsor an episode, head to ohwitchplease.com/sponsorships. And to help support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review and send the show to family and friends!

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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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Welcome back to the playground! In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi discuss “transition.” 

We begin with an anecdote from Marcelle about the discomfort she feels labelling her daughter Billie as trans, given Billie started using she/her pronouns soon after becoming verbal. Together, Marcelle and Raimi think through the shortcomings and utility of labels, gender as a social construct, and the importance of affirming the gender and gender expression of people of all ages. 

Raimi then explains “transition” as an umbrella term that includes a range of actions pertaining to internal, social, legal and physical changes and choices folks may make. Marcelle asks some questions and there’s a fair amount of giggling! 

As always, we end with a couple recommendations and a promise to continue our discussion of transition in coming episodes.

We’re continuing to find our audience for this podcast and we need your help! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with family and friends — and leave an Apple Review! 

If you’d like to directly support production of this show, head to ohwitchplease.com/sponsorships. For just $250 USD, you can become a Gender Playground sponsor, run an ad on our show and get a shoutout. 

Otherwise, we’ll be back in two weeks with a new episode!

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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 about navigating conversations around gender with extended community, other caretakers, and teachers. They discuss the value in setting a positive tone and the importance of giving children space to be playful, despite the political climate and the hostility towards expansive gender expression. If you enjoy this episode, please share it with family and friends! To learn how to sponsor an episode, head to ohwitchplease.com/sponsorships. And to help support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review and send the show to family and friends!

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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!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TODAY! New episodes dropping every two weeks.

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!

In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi talk through the various ways family and friends may express concern, ignorance, fear or bias. Together they discuss, from personal experience, when there's space for growth and care in those conversations and when boundaries may come in handy.

To learn how to sponsor an episode, head to ohwitchplease.com/sponsorships. And to help support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review and send the show to family and friends!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TODAY! New episodes dropping every two weeks.

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!

In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi talk about refreshing and alternative ways to channel the excitement and curiosity that comes with a baby announcement.

To learn how to sponsor an episode, head to ohwitchplease.com/sponsorships. And to help support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review and send the show to family and friends!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SUBSCRIBE TODAY! New episodes dropping every two weeks.

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!

This first episode is about gender expression and gender euphoria. In it, Marcelle and Raimi talk about Marcelle's daughter playing dress up, Marcelle's desire to balance her daughter’s creative freedom and safety, and what caregivers can do to better expand their own imaginations around gender and self-expression within and beyond the binary.

For more resources and information about today's topic(s), head to ohwitchplease.ca/gender-playground! To learn how to sponsor an episode, head to ohwitchplease.com/sponsorships. And to help support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review and send the show to family and friends!

Note: We briefly touch on the current panic around "permanence" and although we don't name the buzzword "detransition" in this episode, we are aware that it's used in mainstream discourse to limit access to gender-affirming and life-saving care for trans and nonbinary youth. Until then, head to ohwitchplease.ca/gender-playground for some useful research on the low rate of detransition.

Links to the Recommendations from Our Pilot

• https://www.flamingorampant.com/
• https://jesslove.format.com/picture-books
• https://booksaremagic.net/item/oh62l0dfkY5ldh2RwcbyWg
• https://socialjusticebooks.org/sparkle-boy/
• https://modernrascals.ca/

Special thanks to the folks that made this episode and its accompanying resources happen: Reese Carr, Erik Magnus, Malika Gumpangkum, Gaby Iori, Zoe Mix, Hannah McGregor, Hannah Rehak and AJ Jaramaz.

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