Gender Playground

Welcome back to the playground! To kick off our second season, we are joined by close friend of the pod, and Marcelle’s Material Girls's co-host, Hannah McGregor! Marcelle and Raimi chat with Hannah about their experience as a Gay Auntie ™ and the “angry, monstrous, and free” inspiration that dinosaurs offer to kids — and kids at heart. The team then answers a voicemail from Nici in Germany and consider how one might approach giving gifts to friends’ children while respecting primary caretakers' boundaries.As always, we finish we recommendations, including; From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, by Kai Cheng Thom, I Want To Be A Vase by Julio Torres, and the webshop trans*fabel. We'll be back next week for episode two!If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with family and friends! For ad-free episodes and to show your support, head to patreon.com/ohhwitchplease! To support the show for ZERO COST, leave us an Apple review! Reviews help new listeners discover the show — and it gives us an idea of what you're liking about the new season!

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! ***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!

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!***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 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!***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 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!***Books Referenced by Raimi:Histories of the Trans Child by Jules Gill-Peterson, 2018. Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyem, 2022. ***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 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. 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!***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.***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!