Bearded Lesbians

Stella & Jessi: Detrans Support

Stella O'Malley is an Irish psychotherapist and author, with three books on parenting and mental health, is the founder of Genspect [https://genspect.org/]and leads online support groups for disenchanted transpeople and detransitioners, called Beyond Trans [https://beyondtrans.org/]. Jessi is a lesbian detransitioner and member of Stella's groups.  In this episode, we discuss some of the common challenges we face when reidentifying as women and lesbians.

Mark: Lesbros Project

Mark is a 23 year old lesbian who lived as a transman for five years before finding gender critical feminism. Mark and Aaron discuss the Lesbros Project, goals and difficulties for sex realist transmen and the impacts of gender medicine on lesbian community.   Podcast episode mentioned: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5sxiS5piTZHD1nyHuaNNPU?si=z7EJY0t4TKeuWnQqkacBoQ [https://open.spotify.com/episode/5sxiS5piTZHD1nyHuaNNPU?si=z7EJY0t4TKeuWnQqkacBoQ]   Lesbros Project: www.lesbrosproject.com [http://www.lesbrosproject.com]

Jake: It's Complicated

Jake is a Canadian transman who's thinking deeply about his experiences of identity, sexual orientation and the medical and social traumas related to transition. This is an audio-only episode because "Jake" wants to remain anonymous.

Ramblin: Female Masculinity

Ramblin is an American long haul trucker and content creator trying to graple with sex-realism as a transman.  Follow him here: https://www.youtube.com/@RAMBLINTRANSMAN [https://www.youtube.com/@RAMBLINTRANSMAN] Twitter/X: https://x.com/RamblinTransman [https://x.com/RamblinTransman]

Frankie - The Elephant in the Room

Frankie courageously opens up about a difficult topic: the sexual assault of transmen by transwomen, and the silencing of victims in the name of "trans rights". You can read more about this story here: https://www.tumblr.com/sydsixxftm/778919719852032000/why-did-syd-sixx-leave-porn?source=share [https://www.tumblr.com/sydsixxftm/778919719852032000/why-did-syd-sixx-leave-porn?source=share]   More info about sexual assaults: https://www.aaronkimberly.com/post/what-a-feminist-analysis-of-sexual-assault-data-reveals-about-transmen [https://www.aaronkimberly.com/post/what-a-feminist-analysis-of-sexual-assault-data-reveals-about-transmen]   More information about criminality patterns: https://www.aaronkimberly.com/post/criminality-data [https://www.aaronkimberly.com/post/criminality-data]