The Gender Agenda

Rebeckah learns about Sabreena Lachlainn’s plans to be the first openly trans sailor to sail non-stop around the world. Rowan provides us all with some important health and safety tips on h ow to avoid breaking a rib when wearing a binder. We feature the music of Left at London  and Imbi the Girl .       This episode originally aired on 26 December.  The post Ep. 73 – Sa...

In this pre-Christmas episode of The Gender Agenda, Rebeckah and Rowan share some crazy time with The Love Bitez , a  soulful jazz – inspired musical group from the Mornington Peninsula. In the news: Team Trans recently played ice hockey together for the first time; the UK’s first openly-transgender parents-to-be;   LGBT activists shut down a debate at the University of Essex;  Japan&#...

In this episode of the Gender Agenda Rebeckah and Rowan return with a conversation with  Blayke  Percival about how they have been relating to their music and their voice since starting their transition. The team discuss legal cases in the US involving teachers and trans students clashing over whose rights come first; Marvel celebrating trans kids on Disney+, but still lacking trans heroes in comi...

In the first of their podcast exclusive episodes, The Gender Agenda team sit down with advocate and Joy personality Andrea and ask everything you wanted to know about what it’s like to live as someone born with an intersex condition. It’s a fascinating conversation. Don’t miss it. The post Ep. 70 – The Intersections of Intersex appeared first on The Gender Agenda .

In this, the final episode of The Gender Agenda for the first half of the 2019 season, Miranda and Rowan have a chin wag with comedian and orator Cassie Workman about her award winning show, ‘Giantess’, as part of the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Plus the team touch on ACON’s trans and gender diverse policy blueprint presented to the NSW parliament, the annual Ad...

To celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility in 2019, Miranda Sparks and Rowan bring you a two hour Sunday special filled with guests and music representing the transgender community. In our second part we talk to footy figure and local legend Emily Fox; have a chat with Sally Goldner from Transgender Victoria and 3CR; get an in-depth probe with our very own Rebeckah Loveday ; and reminisce with Tra...

To celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility in 2019, Miranda Sparks and Rowan bring you a two hour Sunday special filled with guests and music representing the transgender community. In our first part we talk to Nevo Zisin , non-binary author of Finding Nevo: How I Confused Everyone ; former cartoonist and tabletop game designer Crystal Frasier ; and poet, activist and academic Quinn Eades. Featuri...

In this episode of The Gender Agenda; Sam Smith comes out as non-binary; Former Young Australian of the Year and transgender icon Georgie Stone joins the cast of Neighbours; filmmaker Tanwaran Sukkhapisit becomes first transgender MP in Thailand; activist and transgender mother Gauri Sawant becomes one of twelve Indian state icons encouraging the importance of voting; we meet Q, the world’s...

On this episode of The Gender Agenda, Miranda and Rowan welcome back the mischievous Helchild on the cusp of their brand new Melbourne Comedy Festival Show, The Apocalypse Variety Hour . It’s all fun and games, until Bologna Abbott bursts into the studio. Plus the team talk Muslim allies in Seattle, Henry Sias running to be the first US trans male judge, and a journal retraction connected to...

Join The Gender Agenda team as we sit down with director Logan Mucha and transgender elder Sally Conning, the forces behind ‘We’re In This Together’, part reenactment, part documentary, screening as part of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival. Plus, we take a look back at some important figures in Australia’s transgender history. Featuring music from Heaven Pegasus, Butchers...

Join Rebeckah and Rowan on The Gender Agenda with special guest hosts Zoe and Elkie as they talk the big issues from the transgender and gender non-conforming community. On this episode the team covers some big transgender wins at the Australian LGBTI Awards; Andreja Pejic’s visibility in a major modeling campaign; a UK prison opens its first wing for transgender inmates; Bridget Clinch tack...

On this week’s show hosts Rowan and Rebeckah get on the line with New Zealand transgender personality Mary Haddock-Staniland as she heads to Oz as part of B&T Changing the Ratio . Together they spoke about the importance of diversity, visibility, and just what else she has planned once hitting our shores. Plus the team is joined by guest-host Morgan and discuss Canada’s Bill 89, Th...

It’s Mardi Gras season, and what better way to mark the occasion than for The Gender Agenda to check in with the vivacious Katherine Wolfgramme . She joins Rebeckah and Rowan via phone talks about her Star Observer column, “Gender Whisperer”. Plus the team discuss the rights of transgender women having access to uterus transplants, a trans man’s historic win in an Iowa cour...

Miranda, Rebeckah and Rowan fly solo on this episode of The Gender Agenda, and talk about the latest goings on in the wider gender variant community. First the team touch on Teddy Geiger and trans inclusion at the Grammy Awards, and Janelle Monáe’s dedication to her transgender brothers and sisters, followed by a mother’s gender reveal birthday party for her twenty-one year old trans s...

On this episode of The Gender Agenda, Miranda Sparks and Rebeckah Loveday have the great pleasure of speaking to Archie Boulter and Zoe Walder about being out and proud gender non-conforming folk working in Melbourne’s museums. We also chat to Archie about their other project, Queer Town , an online hub of LGBTQIA+ media. Plus we talk the upcoming second season of Pose, highlighting transgen...

On this episode of The Gender Agenda hosts Rebeckah and Rowan welcome Tanya Williams from Dress for Success into the studio to discuss dressing transgender women for employment, and the upcoming ‘Be Who You Are’ campaign this March 2019. Also, the team talks TV as Jen Richards plays a cisgender character on ‘Blindspot’, Hari Nef steals the show in ‘You’, and we...

 On this episode of The Gender Agenda, our hosts are joined by a packed studio of beautiful humans representing the Miss Gay and Miss Transsexual Australia International competition as part of Midsumma Festival! Plus Miranda, Rebeckah and Rowan discuss YouTube vlogger HBomberGuy’s $340,000US contribution to trans org Mermaids by playing Donkey Kong, the US Supreme Court’s upholding the...

 On this episode of The Gender Agenda, Miranda and Rowan speak to the creative forces behind Unbroken: Human Kintsugi at Gasworks Arts Park as part of Midsumma Festival. (For some reason Miranda keeps calling the show ‘Unbound’ and we suspect that’s a Freudian slip.) Plus our hosts discuss Teddy Geiger’s incredible words about discovering her gender, Tessa Ganserer becoming...

This week author Alison Evans joined The Gender Agenda crew with their brand new book,  Highway Bodies, set for release on February 4. It’s Melbourne queer kids versus the walking dead; everything you never knew you ever wanted! Plus the team discuss advances of trans rights on the world; California and New York City adopt gender self-identification policies, and Pakistan holds its first eve...

On the very last episode of The Gender Agenda for the year, Miranda says goodbye to 2018 with some of our favourite trans and non-binary music artists. Plus, Rebeckah chimes in and gets merry with her brothers. Featuring music by Adult Mom, Blayke Percival, Kim Petras, Felix Shepherd, Miss Blanks, Rory Storm, Mila Jam, Shawnee, Angel Haze, Electric Fields, and Simona Castricum. The post Ep. 56 &#8...

It’s an all out pink party when Miranda, Rebeckah, Rowan and Dani welcome the return of all-out non-binary deity Jet Pinko as they celebrate one year in – you guessed it – ALL PINK! Plus the team discusses The Fantasy Calendar , featuring twelve multicultural women of trans experience supporting the Trans Latina Coalition ; the future science behind pregnancy in trans women; and...

This week on The Gender Agenda, hosts Miranda and Rowan welcome the return of some favourite guests; Rory Storm and Lou Olsson (formerly Jo Neugebauer and Stacey Olsson)! We find out what they’ve have been up to since their last appearance, the importance of names, and Lou’s coming out as genderqueer at their work Christmas party. Plus, Miranda has a chat with Heidi Ellis, Many Genders...

On December 6th, 2017, the very first episode of The Gender Agenda went to air, and one year later we’re still going strong! Former host Esther returns to join Miranda, Rebeckah, Rowan and Dani on a very special anniversary show, where we gather together and take a walk down memory lane. Highlights include the chance meeting of Rory Storm and Lou Olsson, chatting with Mila Jam about her sing...

This week on The Gender Agenda, Rebeckah and guest host Miss Katalyna  chat with Sam Elkin from St Kilda Legal Service about aiding the community and appearing in court as a non-binary lawyer. Plus, the team talks Twitter’s new transgender affirming codes of conduct, the first trans person assigned a driver’s licence in Islamabad, criticism of transgender laws in the Northern Territory...

On The Gender Agenda just gone by, hosts Rebeckah, Rowan and intern Dani take a moment to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance; the day in which we as a community come together and commemorate those who’ve lost their lives to anti-trans stigma and violence. Later, the team speaks with Susan Brown from Dress for Success about their latest initiative, “Be Who You Are”, aimed to prov...