Thank you so much, Lisa, for bringing Julia to us, and to Julia, most of all, for your many insights, thoughtfulness, courage, and willingness to step up and make a difference. That’s not at all an easy thing to do, to say the least, and that you have done so is endlessly admirable. Most of all, it is abundantly clear you have and are continuing to make a difference.
I was particularly struck by Julia’s observations about resilience, and how, in fact, open conversations with people of good will with different points of view have been essential to developing stronger individual resilience. (I have been very grateful to the few friends of my own--and I have made sure to let them know this--who have been willing to engage in authentic conversation, thereby enabling us to identify where our views differ and where, in fact, the underlying problem was mostly, if not entirely, that gaps in understanding existed.)
Julia demonstrates powerfully, once again, that those who will not engage at all are among our biggest roadblocks. To use the old adage, the only way out of this is through.
Before a few years ago we never heard of “gender dysphoria”. I really wonder if there is such a thing or it’s just part of this trans trend . We now have Facebook, Twitter ,etc. which spreads this stuff! Kids go through all kinds of problems growing up, especially during puberty ..those problems need to be addressed,but gender dysphoria is just a trend now .
What a great interview, thank you Julia and Lisa. These conversations are so important, but it's so hard to talk when any disagreement is seen as a sign that you want trans people to not exist. Resilience is so so important, and we (society) are not helping by reframing disagreement and discussion as hate rather than fighting against real hate and discrimination.
Lisa, thank you so so much for interviewing Julia who is a CANADIAN! Yay!
I especially appreciate this interview ahead of June - Pride month - when we just got a letter from our child's *Catholic* school board (in Ontario) informing us that the "Progress flag" will be raised and posters and "teaching kits" will be distributed to all schools, including elementary schools. It's as though this is an open and shut case where there is no debate about what's the right ideology. Learning about Julia also led me to realize that there are parents in Ontario fighting against this. I am encouraged by this, and I am so grateful to Julia for taking on this fight!
Julia, the parent that you're describing around minute 51 of the podcast was me three years ago. You really have no idea how grateful I am to you and people like you who understand and can lend their support. Your voice is incredibly important! Also, I find your videos to be really great, and fun :D
Thanks for doing this interview, Lisa. I listened to it while my kid napped and I folded laundry. I really value "trans" folks like Julia who are level-headed and rational. We could use a voice like hers in Brooklyn! I found it interesting that Julia couldn't come up with ideas of how he could have been more supported as a child or ways that his parents and teachers could have made him feel more accepted. I wish you had pushed a little more about his sexuality. He comes from a religious family - is this just a case of plain old homophobia? Could Julia really just be a self-loathing, closeted gay man? Obviously I don't know but I'd love to hear her explore that possibility. I also would like to hear "trans" people talk more about the idea of being gender nonconforming without having to transition to the opposite sex. Why couldn't Jason just grow his hair out and wear a dress (ie the costume of womanhood).... Why can't society make room for people who don't follow the stereotypes of their biological sex? And if we did, would Jason have needed to transition to Julia?
Oh, Lisa! I too cannot keep it together when trying to have conversations with people who disagree with my most passionately held beliefs. I wish I could, but out come the water-works and my brain freezes and I become incoherent and . . .. well, in the moment I become anything but persuasive or curious, when I try. I have to have the distance and time that expressing myself via writing (very imperfectly because I'm too long-winded and meandery) makes possible. Anyway, I feel a kinship with you on this particular point. Thank you for trying out this new podcast thing, as I am sure it's an uncomfortable space for you. I admire you for just doing it and introducing Julia to me. I'm sharing this episode with many others.
Thank you so much, Lisa, for bringing Julia to us, and to Julia, most of all, for your many insights, thoughtfulness, courage, and willingness to step up and make a difference. That’s not at all an easy thing to do, to say the least, and that you have done so is endlessly admirable. Most of all, it is abundantly clear you have and are continuing to make a difference.
I was particularly struck by Julia’s observations about resilience, and how, in fact, open conversations with people of good will with different points of view have been essential to developing stronger individual resilience. (I have been very grateful to the few friends of my own--and I have made sure to let them know this--who have been willing to engage in authentic conversation, thereby enabling us to identify where our views differ and where, in fact, the underlying problem was mostly, if not entirely, that gaps in understanding existed.)
Julia demonstrates powerfully, once again, that those who will not engage at all are among our biggest roadblocks. To use the old adage, the only way out of this is through.
Before a few years ago we never heard of “gender dysphoria”. I really wonder if there is such a thing or it’s just part of this trans trend . We now have Facebook, Twitter ,etc. which spreads this stuff! Kids go through all kinds of problems growing up, especially during puberty ..those problems need to be addressed,but gender dysphoria is just a trend now .
This is the conversation that needs to be had everyday...Julia Mallott is a treasure and an important voice!
What a great interview, thank you Julia and Lisa. These conversations are so important, but it's so hard to talk when any disagreement is seen as a sign that you want trans people to not exist. Resilience is so so important, and we (society) are not helping by reframing disagreement and discussion as hate rather than fighting against real hate and discrimination.
Lisa, thank you so so much for interviewing Julia who is a CANADIAN! Yay!
I especially appreciate this interview ahead of June - Pride month - when we just got a letter from our child's *Catholic* school board (in Ontario) informing us that the "Progress flag" will be raised and posters and "teaching kits" will be distributed to all schools, including elementary schools. It's as though this is an open and shut case where there is no debate about what's the right ideology. Learning about Julia also led me to realize that there are parents in Ontario fighting against this. I am encouraged by this, and I am so grateful to Julia for taking on this fight!
Julia, the parent that you're describing around minute 51 of the podcast was me three years ago. You really have no idea how grateful I am to you and people like you who understand and can lend their support. Your voice is incredibly important! Also, I find your videos to be really great, and fun :D
Thanks for doing this interview, Lisa. I listened to it while my kid napped and I folded laundry. I really value "trans" folks like Julia who are level-headed and rational. We could use a voice like hers in Brooklyn! I found it interesting that Julia couldn't come up with ideas of how he could have been more supported as a child or ways that his parents and teachers could have made him feel more accepted. I wish you had pushed a little more about his sexuality. He comes from a religious family - is this just a case of plain old homophobia? Could Julia really just be a self-loathing, closeted gay man? Obviously I don't know but I'd love to hear her explore that possibility. I also would like to hear "trans" people talk more about the idea of being gender nonconforming without having to transition to the opposite sex. Why couldn't Jason just grow his hair out and wear a dress (ie the costume of womanhood).... Why can't society make room for people who don't follow the stereotypes of their biological sex? And if we did, would Jason have needed to transition to Julia?
Great questions were asked, very interesting conversation.
There is no such thing as a "trans woman" and you know it.
Oh, Lisa! I too cannot keep it together when trying to have conversations with people who disagree with my most passionately held beliefs. I wish I could, but out come the water-works and my brain freezes and I become incoherent and . . .. well, in the moment I become anything but persuasive or curious, when I try. I have to have the distance and time that expressing myself via writing (very imperfectly because I'm too long-winded and meandery) makes possible. Anyway, I feel a kinship with you on this particular point. Thank you for trying out this new podcast thing, as I am sure it's an uncomfortable space for you. I admire you for just doing it and introducing Julia to me. I'm sharing this episode with many others.
I’ll be curious to see what happens with Julia later on in life...
Not enough comments have come in on the Title IX reg changes: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/2023/05/15/biden-administration-hears-132000-and-counting-title-ix-rule Comments close end of today, I am hoping midnight, not COB. Get a comment in if you haven’t: https://womensdeclarationusa.com/submit-a-comment-to-the-federal-register-about-proposed-title-ix-rules/