Podcast
Behind the Bastards
The book is a collection of interviews with people who are both transgender and autistic, discussing their experiences with navigating the world, transitioning, and accessing transgender healthcare.
It's sort of a series of interviews with folks. And, you know, I mean, I just asked them like about their lives and what it was like to be trans and what it was like to be autistic and what it's like...
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Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 41
The book is a collection of interviews with people who are both transgender and autistic, discussing their experiences with navigating the world, transitioning, and accessing transgender healthcare.
It's sort of a series of interviews with folks. And, you know, I mean, I just asked them like about their lives and what it was like to be trans and what it was like to be autistic and what it's like to, you know, try to transition as an autistic person.
So I'm looking specifically at how trans autistic community groups or grassroots group formations are forming and what their goals are.
I always like to plug Rupe's Walsh's work, which looks at, you know, they do a lot of work in trans autistic stuff too. And they kind of look at why more people may be trans and autistic. And one of the things they've found is that it may be that autistic people are both less capable of hiding the fact that they're trans and less capable of caring or caring about hiding it.
Trans and Autistic Stories from Life at the Intersection by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. It was out in 2020, I think. People can find it on Amazon or wherever you buy books. I'm sure Powell's Bookstore over there in Portland has it.
It's a series of interviews with folks who are trans and autistic. I sat down with folks and asked them about their life and what's going on and what that looks like. And then I sort of, you know, tried to transcribe that into a text, into a narrative form and put that in a book and here we are.