Episodes

Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Season 1 - Episode 5: Is the Turkey Baster Thing Real...
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Season 1 - Episode 5: "Is the Turkey Baster Thing Real..."
For transcripts, follow the link here
Show Notes:
Health-related links:
The Longest Shortest Time Episode 153: https://longestshortesttime.com/episode-153-sperm-shopping-by-color/
Lambda Legal: https://www.lambdalegal.org/states-regions/in-your-state?gclid=CJDu1q-55dICFUO5wAodlCEB3w
Williams Institute: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Same-Sex-Parents-Jul-2018.pdf
Family Equality (2019) LGBTQ Family Building Survey. https://www.familyequality.org/fbs
Carone, N., Gartrell, N.K., Rothblum, E.D., Koh, A.S., & Bos, H.M.W. (2021) The Stability of Psychological Adjustment Among Donor-conceived Offspring in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study from Childhood to Adulthood: Differences by Donor Type, Fertility and Sterility, 115(5), 1302–1311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2020.12.012
National Survey of Children’s Health: https://www.childhealthdata.org/learn-about-the-nsch/archive-prior-year-data-documents-and-resources/2011-12-nsch
Stephanie Berman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0NNN-5SSbM
“Turkey-Baster Baby”: https://open.spotify.com/track/1GMK8sajViuODG58vfk3uh
Historical sources:
Daniels, Cynthia R, and Janet Golden. "Procreative Compounds: Popular Eugenics, Artificial Insemination and the Rise of the American Sperm Banking Industry." Journal of Social History 38, no. 1 (2004): 5-27. doi:10.1353/jsh.2004.0081.
May, Elaine Tyler. Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness. New York: BasicBooks, 1995.
“‘Proxy Baby,” News- week 55 (May 30, 1960): 80–81.
Richards, Martin. “Artificial Insemination and Eugenics: Celibate Motherhood, Eutelegenesis and Germinal Choice.” Studies in History & Philosophy of Biological & Biomedical Sciences 39, no. 2 (June 2008): 211–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2008.03.005.
Tallon-Hicks, Yana. “Starter Kit: Baby-making just got intimate.” Deneuve: the Lesbian Magazine (April 2013), 15.
“Test-Tube Test Case.” Time 64 (December 27, 1954): 52.
“Use of artificial insemination increasing” (AP), The News Tribune (Tacoma, Was.), December 5, 1978, p. 11.

Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Season 1 - Episode 4: Can I Get Pregnant If...
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Season 1 - Episode 4: "Can I Get Pregnant If.."
For transcripts, follow the link here
Show Notes:
Health related links:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7447942.stm
http://www.drmomma.org/2008/06/human-ovulation-clearly-photographed.html
www.dodsonandross.com
Historical sources:
Brodie, Janet Farrell. Contraception and Abortion in 19th-Century America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Cobb, M. “An Amazing 10 Years: The Discovery of Egg and Sperm in the 17th Century.” Reproduction in Domestic Animals 47, no. 4: 2–6. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0531.2012.02105.
Horowitz, Maryanne Cline. “The ‘Science’ of Embryology Before the Discovery of the Ovum.” In Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present, edited by
Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert, 2nd ed., 104–12. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Martin, Emily. “The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles.” Signs 16, no. 3 (1991): 485–501.

Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Season 1 - Episode 3: How Do I Know If I’m Trans...Part 2
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Season 1 - Episode 3: "How Do I Know If I'm Trans...? Part 2"
For transcripts please follow the link here
Want to support our show? Visit our website, www.reallyweirdquestion.com, to make a fully tax-deductible donation, and don’t forget to check out our merch!
On our website, you’ll also find information about how you can subscribe to our free monthly newsletter, resources to learn more about LGBTQ+ health and history, and a rough transcript of the episode.
Show Notes:
Ainsworth, C. Sex redefined. Nature 518, 288–291 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/518288a
APA’s statement on gender dysphoria in the DSM: https://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/Psychiatrists/Practice/DSM/APA_DSM-5-Gender-Dysphoria.pdf
Meyerowitz, Joanne J. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Stryker, Susan. Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution. New York: Seal Press, 2017.

Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Season 1 - Episode 2: How Do I Know If I’m Trans... Part 1
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Season 1 - Episode 2: "How Do I Know If I'm Trans... Part 2"
For transcripts, please follow the link here
Want to support our show? Visit our website, www.reallyweirdquestion.com, to make a fully tax-deductible donation, and don’t forget to check out our merch!
On our website, you’ll also find information about how you can subscribe to our free monthly newsletter, resources to learn more about LGBTQ+ health and history, and a rough transcript of the episode.
Health-related resources:
Dara Hoffman Fox (LPC and Gender Therapist) https://darahoffmanfox.com/
Meystre-Agustoni, G. Talking about sexuality with the physician: are patients receiving what they wish? Swiss Med Wkly. 2011;141:w13178
2015 US Trans Survey reports: https://www.ustranssurvey.org/reports
2022 US Trans Survey: https://www.ustranssurvey.org/
Historical sources:
Peter Boag, Re-Dressing the America’s Frontier Past (University of California Press, 2011)
Scott Larson, “‘Indescribable Being’: Theological Performances of Genderlessness in the Society of the Publick Universal Friend, 1776–1819.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 12, no. 3 (2014): 576–600. https://doi.org/10.1353/eam.2014.0020.
Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (2002)
Susan Stryker, Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (Basic Books, 2017)

Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Season 1 - Episode 1: Are You Sexually Active...
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Season 1 - Episode 1: "Are You Sexually Active..."
For transcripts, please follow the link here
Want to support our show? Visit our website, www.reallyweirdquestion.com, to make a fully tax-deductible donation, and don’t forget to check out our merch!
On our website, you’ll also find information about how you can subscribe to our free monthly newsletter, resources to learn more about LGBTQ+ health and history, and a rough transcript of the episode.
Historical Sources:
Drucker, Donna J. The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University
of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan. Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2000.
Gebhard, Paul H, Alan B Johnson, Alfred C Kinsey, and Institute for Sex Research. The Kinsey Data: Marginal Tabulations
of the 1938-1963 Interviews Conducted by the Institute for Sex Research. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Kinsey, Alfred C, Wardell B Pomeroy, and Clyde E Martin. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Bloomington, Ind.:
Indiana University Press, 1998 [1948].
Kinsey, Alfred C, and Institute for Sex Research. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana
University Press, 1998 [1953].
Meystre-Agustoni, G. Talking about sexuality with the physician: are patients receiving what they wish? Swiss Med Wkly.
2011;141:w13178
Stoeckle JD, Billings JA. A history of history-taking: the medical interview. J Gen Intern Med. 1987;2:119–27.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK458/
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/about/history/history-of-jhh/founding-physicians.html
https://www.lgbtqiahealtheducation.org/resources/

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