What The Trans!?

Bad things.

Hey this is Michelle.

So, bad things.

A combination of things have essentially "triggered" me. As such, I am totally useless and have no idea how to deliver all these things.

So, going to issue refunds this month. Apologies. I just just totally unable to get you what you paid for.

I will be making some changes to the Patreon going forward, but will talk to every patron individually this month to chat about what they want to see going forward.

In the meantim...

Confidence and body acceptance

Hello, delightful patrons!

We've been thinking about how lockdown has mixed effects when it comes to confidence. For some people, it's given them the freedom to present however they want in the safety of their own homes, while for others, it's led to being unable to present how they want at all due to unsupportive home environments. And for almost everyone, it's meant no access to hairdressers for a while! So we wanted to share a few thoughts on body acceptance and confidence.

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We did a cis allies episode and it didn't show up. Here is why.

Hello, this is Michelle. The sweary one from that pod you like.

We did a cisgender allies special that was so much fun to do. We talked to Owen Jones, Grace Petrie, David Paisley and Josie Long and all four of them are astonishingly wonderful.  They have all publicly stood up for the trans community in wonderful ways even when it would have been easier not to. They very much deserve to be highlighted and celebrated. And to those of you in small towns stuck at home surrounded by th...

Cis allies

We've been hard at work this week and we're really looking forward to putting out our Cis Allies Special!

To tie in with that theme, check out this open letter to Liz Truss by cis women allies! https://liztrussopenletter.wordpress.com/  Why not share it with any cis women allies in your life and ask them to sign it? 

If you know anyone who doesn't understand why Truss poses a threat to tr...

Collective fandom name?

The other day, Michelle was telling a friend about how fans of the podcast had helped her to get equipment for making the show, and her friend asked if our audience were called "What The Fans". What do you think of this name? Let us know if you think of an alternative!

Update on a funding goal

Hello, fantastic Patrons! 

We're delighted that you've helped us to reach our funding goal for paying Ashleigh, who is very grateful for your support. However, she's actually decided to take a month out for personal reasons, and feels that it would be unfair to take the money while she isn't actively involved in producing episodes. 

For the moment, we intend to save up that money and hopefully have a bit of a financial safety net for our overheads. We'll review the situa...

Change to how we handle payments

Hello, wonderful supporters!

As we're going to be creating a bunch more Patron-only content to reward certain tiers, we want to switch to charging Patrons up front, starting at the end of this month (31 May). We hope our choice of date will minimise any potential disruption, but this might result in a slight one-off timing difference in charging, so we wanted to let you know about it in advance. 

Recurring payments will continue to go out on the 1st of each month - you'd only...

Celebrity transphobes

We managed to get #GlinnerIsABigot trending this week - many thanks to everyone who helped make it happen! It got us thinking... which other celebrity transphobe do you wish more people would recognise as a bigot?

New Patron tiers, rewards and goals!

Hello, lovely Patrons. How are you doing?

We've been busy behind the scenes, plotting and scheming how to make What The Trans!? even better. Michelle has recruited an army of robots to help organise her schedule, while our new producer Jo has been hard at work doing vital admin stuff that keeps everything running smoothly. (There are so many spreadsheets. SO MANY.)

We've updated our Patreon page with a bunch of new tiers and rewards, plus our fair pay funding goals. We're very exc...

Well ain't this a fuckin thing.

Hope this finds you in your various bunkers, keeping safe.

So, What The Trans is going to change slightly. Our pod is still going to report news, but as COVID-19 and the various ramifications of it are the biggest danger to trans people, we are incorporating ways to help trans folks get through this thing. Obviously there is only so much we can do, but here is our rough plan:

1. Rejigger the podcast format.

Much of the business of the UK parliament will be suspended. Trans e...

So we took a two week break...here is why.

So now that we have people donating to us, feels like I owe you an explanation when it comes to the recent unplanned gap between episodes.

Basically, I (Michelle) was recently diagnosed with ADHD. This came with...feelings...and a sudden need to radically change how I do some things.

This made putting out episodes impossible for a while. But we are dropping a new episode tomorrow, and will try to keep you abreast of if the production schedule has to change suddenly.

Hello lovely patrons! Or is it Patreons? I have no idea

So, we are doing this.

This page was only supposed to be a placeholder until we figure out how this works, but then SOME OF YOU simply couldn't wait and found it yourselves!

Thank you SO MUCH!

As such, we are still scrambling to put this stuff together, but we will start reading out the names of donors at the end of shows starting with the episode coming out on the 17th of this month.

 Thank you for your support. Please let us know if you would like to remain anon...