TPT#77 - Little White Bowls

Sometimes things get misplaced. While we endeavour to find lost items promptly, it often happens that the hunt for missing objects is preempted by our busy lives. Back-to-school has made our lives busier than usual, so the to-do list has gotten completely shuffled and lost-and-found hasn't been a priority.

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TPT#76 - More Q's and A's

More questions have been asked, so more answers are being recorded for your enjoyment, enlightenment, or timepassment. From the term "PrincessMan" to our favorite fandoms, from pod-stats to voice lessons, from Maryland to Kazakhstan, we've covered the topics you've asked about in today's episode.

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TPT#75 - A Bad Case of Butthurt

Every once in a while, we have a problem that won't go away until we talk about it in a podcast episode. We've come to call this phenomenon "microphone magic". This time the problem is health-related, prompting a few visits to new doctors and the anxiety that can induce in trans folk.

As discussed at about 11:50, we recorded the process of finding our doctor in episode #21 "Doctor, Doctor" (which can be found at http://transpantastic.net/2013/08/doctor-doctor.html if your podcatcher doesn't pull all the old episodes).

At 26:20 we incorrectly state that nitroglycerin is a vasoconstrictor. It is actually a vasodilator. Hence the lowered blood pressure.

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TPT#74 - ThunderCats and Sparkly Streamers

From the moment a newborn emerges and the doctor takes note of their genitals, any child born into most western cultures is assigned a set of expections and cultural norms we refer to as "gender". It takes only a little experience to realize that the majority of these expectations are nonsense.

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TPT#73 - Doing It As A Man

George's transition has made him clearly male in appearance, and this affects everything from his health to his social interactions. Jess is generally happy to support him in each situation, even when her own queerness gets lost in the shuffle. When hiking or exercising, when dealing with his mom, or when dealing with strangers in public, there are new experiences for both of us to explore.

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TPT#72 - Small Mammals

There are four mammalian creatures in our house under four feet (~120cm) tall, two short hominids and two large canines. We have committed to be responsible for these living beings (and a tall homonid too), and this fact has given us both enjoyment and stress, both frustration and joy.

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Recent Changes

In response to a listener suggestion, we have revised audio post titles here on the website to include podcast episode numbers, which were previously only attached to file downloads from our hosting site. Thanks, Bradleigh, for letting us know how we can better serve the community.

We have also been aware, for a while now, that there are a number of older episodes that needed remixing from when we were using different equipment and audio quality was not as good. Starting today, we will be working backward from episode #40 to edit and re-upload the files to our hosting server. The filenames and URLs should still be the same, so all links and podcatcher functions should still work, but if you find anything broken, please email us at TransPanTastic@gmail.com.

TPT#71 - You're Less Selfish

Transition is, by necessity and by definition, a self-centered act. To recreate one's physical self in the most psychologically congruous image possible, is intensely intrapersonal. But when life keeps happening all around us, between raising kids, caring for parents, tending pets, supporting family, paying bills, and keeping house, it's easy to get lost in all the external details and forget that transition is even happening!

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TPT#70 - She's Gone Cukoo!

George's mom is old. As both her body and her brain have aged, she still seems, at least in our experience, to be fairly sharp. Why, then, do some of her doctors seem to think she has dementia? The answer might have to do with George's transition.

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TPT#69 - Sexytimes Ahoy?

Because, episode sixty-nine, what else could we do?

Between dysphoria and having genitalia that didn't quite work right, learning how to sex was quite a process for George. So when his body started changing in response to testosterone, we started exploring the new things it could do and different ways that sex could happen.

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