Transvestigating (with Contrapoints)

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Your gender is not determined by your anatomy, your chromosomes, your hormones, or even your internal sense of self. It is determined by J.K. Rowling. Today, Natalie Wynn (aka Contrapoints) and I unpack the harassment campaign against Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and what it reveals about people who can “always tell.” Support me + listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! Get an exclusive discount on NordVPN (that I wish I had when I first signed up for it, but hey): https://NordVPN.com/fruity. Huge thanks to Blueland for sponsoring today’s show! Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at www.blueland.com/fruity. Me on Instagram. A Bit Fruity on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	live in fact sorry can you believe what they did to the green
0:07.1	I'm sure that'll come up oh sure, sure. We're going to transvestigate all the candies.
0:14.1	Hello, hello and welcome back to
0:22.2	I'm Matt Bernstein and I'm so happy. Hello, hello, and welcome back to the Midfroody.
0:23.3	I'm Matt Bernstein, and I'm so happy that you're here.
0:25.6	Can you imagine a reality in which you constantly have to prove
0:29.4	to everybody that you meet that you are the gender
0:32.2	that you say you are? Well Well that's just a daily reality for
0:35.1	trans people but I really did write this like I'm like a 60 minutes. Yeah yeah yeah yeah
0:42.4	yeah well that's just a daily reality for trans people, but this Olympic Games, it became the reality for one of the best cis-gender athletes in the world. That is so 60 minutes.
0:53.0	We're going to cut to someone, you know, on location.
0:57.0	What does it mean to get trans-vestigated?
0:59.0	Who gets trans-vestigated?
1:01.0	What gender are you, listener?
1:03.8	I don't care, but JK Rolling would like to know,
1:06.7	right now.
1:08.9	I guess that's a little less 60 minutes.
1:10.7	What gender are you?
1:11.7	What gender are you? What gender is anyone?
1:13.0	You don't just do that bad.
1:17.0	Today we are going to use the latest global sports controversy,
1:22.0	and I put that in air quotes as an entry point for broader conversations about gender, race, surveillance, and some really weird Facebook groups.
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