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All right, let's get into it. This week I had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Oliver Hameson.

He's an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, where he

directs the community research on identity and technology or crit lab. He's also affiliate faculty

with the Digital Studies Institute and a senior fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender

Studies or Cats. He has a new book out called

Trans Technologies. So without any further ado, here he is, Dr. Oliver L. Hayeson. Well, Oliver,

thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you for having me. It's really great to get to talk with you today.

I am excited to talk about your new book, Trans Technologies. And I have to ask first, right at the top,

are there, like, is this the only book about this? Is that, are you the one? Or is this an area

that we're starting to see more writing kind of focusing in?

I think there's only one book that I know of that is really focused in this area. And that would be

the book by Avery Dame Griff that came out. And it's really about histories of trans technology

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