Jessie Nieusma - "Trans, Gender and Sex Education"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Jessie Nieusma (he/him/his) answered J's call to join him for a discussion to dispel misinformation and humanize trans people. They discuss the realities of trans kids, the importance of ensuring that trans people receive the care they need, myths about sports and bathrooms, scare tactics used to discriminate, statistics behind what the trans community endures, spectrum’s along both gender and sex, different ways that people work to move the needle towards equality, and getting to know each other across our differences.

Resources:

Regarding the words transexual versus transgender.

Dr Rachel Mckinnon (aka Veronica Ivy) on trans people in sports.

Chair in Transgender Studies through the University of Victoria in Canada.

History of Transgender people.

Podcasts:

Queer America

Making Gay History

Nancy

Queery

LGBTQ&A

The Laverne Cox Show

Documentaries:

Disclosure on Netflix

Real Boy on Prime

The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson on Netflix

Trans in Trumpland on Prime and Topic TV

Man Made on Prime

Historical Films:

The Lavender Scare

Stonewall Uprising

Screaming Queens

The Times of Harvey Milk

When We Rise

TV:

Pose on FX

Tales of the City on Netflix

Sense 8 on Netflix

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0:00.0	All right. Here we are again.
0:14.0	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.
0:19.0	Welcome to you, if this is your first time here.
0:22.6	To everyone else, thanks for returning.
0:27.4	Most of you probably know there's been considerable controversy around the show over the last few weeks.
0:36.1	I sure made a mess of things.
0:39.8	And I have been working to do whatever I can to sort through it.
0:48.0	Today's episode is part of that.
0:52.3	I don't want to say too much about it. I want you to just listen to it. I will say that
1:01.6	I have never been more nervous to record a conversation for this show than this one. And that
1:10.7	includes at the very beginning when I was
1:13.1	nervous all the time. I just had no idea what to expect going into this. You see, my guest
1:24.3	today is Jesse Nusma. And Jesse listened to the episode and emailed me to take me up on the invitation to come on the show.
1:37.0	So I immediately sent him a link to schedule, and he did. And that was it. We had no other interaction.
1:47.3	What you are going to hear is the only actual interaction we've ever had
1:52.8	other than the two emails.
1:55.5	And that is the usual protocol for the show.
1:58.3	That's usually the way I like it.
2:03.4	But in this instance, I just had no idea what to expect. And I am so profoundly grateful to Jesse for the kindness that he showed me.
2:19.2	And I consider this just a start.
2:24.3	Also, Jesse provided me a whole bunch of links to resources, so I have included them in the
2:33.4	description for the episode, so he mentioned some things and you can find links included them in the description for the episode.
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