This week, on an unsurprisingly hefty episode, our long-suffering hosts talk about:

• Our usual visit to the U.S. of A, featuring Florida and fencing.
• A surprisingly sporty segment.
• Several stories from within the NHS, including a new service specification, new GP guidance and plans for a new detransition pathway.
• Wes Streeting at a Unison conference.
• Loser's corner, featuring Elon Musk's skill issue.
• And of course, the big news from the UK this episode is the recent Supreme Court judgement that did not go well for trans people, featuring an in-depth interview with Jess O'Thomson.

Jess O'Thomson's article: UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010 - QueerAF

References: https://whatthetrans.com/ep129

This week on another exciting* episode of What the Trans?! Comrades Alyx, Flint and Ashleigh go over: 

• The Office for Students have fined a university more than half a million pounds in a row over Kathleen Stock.
• An update to the much-criticised Sullivan report.
• Catching up with news from the USA.
• Our regular romp through Loser's Corner.
• A story about a cute l'il cartoon racoon!
• For our main segment, an interview with some members of Trans Kids Deserve Better, talking about their recent protests and delivery of cardboard coffins to Wes Streeting's constituency office, which has now been going on for more than 200 days.

*your mileage on the use of this term may vary. 

References: https://whatthetrans.com/ep128

APRIL FOOOOOOLS!!!

This week Dan and Owen discuss bad comedians, woke videogames, and have an interview with a supposed ally that went... badly....

On this extremely chonky episode of What the Trans?! Flint, Ashleigh and Alyx rake over the coals on: 

• A multitude of stories from the USA.
• The 'Sullivan Review' and why it's not worth the pixels you'll use to read it. 
• Stories from within the NHS, Metropolitan Police and International Olympic Committee.
• Stories from Hungary, Namibia and Russia.
• A visit to a double-trouble Loser's Corner
• An interview with Chay from TransActual.

References: https://whatthetrans.com/ep127

In this extremely jurisprudence-heavy episode, Ashleigh, Alyx and Flint go over:

• An update on the increasingly bleak situation in the USA, as well as aspects of the Trump regime's many defeats in the courtroom. 
• Conversations about Scottish Labour and the UK Liberal Democrats and their two different ways of approaching anti-trans activists.
• Details of the now-funded puberty blockers clinical trial. 
• A smattering of updates from tribunals and legal cases here in the UK and one extremely focused meat about an Arts Council employment tribunal. 

References: https://whatthetrans.com/ep126

On this somewhat heavy episode of What the Trans?! Flint, Alyx and Ashleigh talk about:

• Is anti-trans sentiment on the rise in the UK? One single, solitary poll says yes, but the team are unconvinced.
• Several difficult stories coming out of the US, with trigger warnings included. 
• The tribunal around NHS Fife nurse Sandie Peggie rumbles on, now vocally supported by Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar.
• Speaking of Labour, "gender critical" members of the party have performed their signature move and created another splinter group.
• And an interview with Dee Whitnell, a writer, creator and sex educator.

Check out those two articles we mentioned!

Did the Cass Review shred the truth? – What The Trans!?

Trans Allies Systematically Intimidated Inside Tavistock

References: https://whatthetrans.com/ep125/

On this hopefully-interesting episode of What the Trans?! Flint, Alyx and Ashleigh get into the gory details of: 

• Villain of the year 2024 Wes Streeting continues his hot streak by expressing sympathy for the families involved with the Bayswater group.
• A Women & Equalities Committee hearing where two scientists exposed the Cass Screwjob as ideologically motivated.
• A lesson on why you should never trust a single word the Telegraph says.
• Several surprisingly positive news stories. (I know, right?! We didn't think that was possible either!) 
• Our fortnightly foray into the field of failure, with Loser's Corner.
• Flint interviews Vera Drew, the creative mind behind movie The People's Joker, which is soon to be released in the UK.

Ashleigh's Other Podcast: A life on the progressive side | MS Society

Petition: Lift restrictions on prescribing puberty blockers to trans children. - Petitions

The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship – The Transfeminine Review

References: https://whatthetrans.com/ep124

On this bumper episode of What the Trans?! Ashleigh, Flint and Alyx go over:

• The court case around last year's hate crime in Harrow, where a young trans woman was attacked outside a roller diisco.
• More criticism of the Cass review, this time from the New England Journal of Medicine.
• Flint talks about a noise demo in support of trans prisoner Zoe Watts
• A triple-tastic Loser's Corner.
• Alyx's interview with a cis ally within the NHS, shining a spotlight onto new 'MindEd' guidance  and its many "gender critical" problems.

References: https://whatthetrans.com/ep123

We're back! On our first episode of 2025, Ashleigh, Alyx and Flint go over:

• A look at Alasdair Henderson, a lawyer who has defended anti-trans viewpoints several times in the courts. 
• Meta's new guidelines for fact checking (or the lack thereof).
• The CPS and their new guidelines.
• Our regular romp to Loser's Corner, featuring Hilary Cass vs. France!
• A deep dive into the protest actions and people involved with resistance to a Nottingham GP's refusal to provide mandated healthcare. 

References: https://whatthetrans.com/ep122

In this special, mostly light-hearted end-of-year retrospective, we look at all that happened in 2024. The good, the bad, the complicated, the profane, the ugly and the yawning chasm of the human soul!!

Featuring:

• Album, film, television show and video game of the year.
• Worst news story, loser and villain the the year. 
• Best news story, ally and coming-out of the year!
• Ally, journalist and activist of the year,

And many more!

Explore our voting numbers (featuring pie charts!) 

References: https://whatthetrans.com/ep121

For this New Year's Day episode of What the Trans?! USA, Clementine talks to Evan Urqhart of Assigned Media about the recent Supreme Court case.

Assigned Media

Evan Urqhart