Gender Playground

Jul 04 2024 10 ep. 40 mins 67
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A new podcast dedicated to the joys of gender-affirming care for kids!

Gender Playground is a new show from Witch, Please Productions and is co-hosted by longtime friends Marcelle Kosman and Raimi Marx. This podcast is all about gender-affirming care for the kids in your life, and YOU are the intended audience! Whether you're a caregiver, parent, family-member, chosen-family-member, teacher, doctor, childcare professional, or just someone who wants to create a more loving world for kids, this show is for you!

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Looking Forward to Trans Futures

Jul 04 2024 40 mins  
As we wrap up this first season of Gender Playground, we are thinking about the future! In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi consider the importance of seeing trans adults living joyful, creative, and fulfilling lives. Marcelle tells Raimi how much they informed her own relationship to Billie's future. Raimi offers insight into the normalcy around parental worry, and offers some adv

What's My Line Again?: Unpacking Social Scripts

Jun 20 2024 46 mins  
How can we as caring adults respond when our children grow beyond our imagination? And how do we, as caring adults, deal with our emotions as we adjust our emotional investments? This week, Marcelle and Raimi work through these questions and discuss gender coded experiences and narratives that we as parents and guardians place on our children. You can find a compilation of resource

Who Belongs at Pride?

Jun 05 2024 44 mins  
In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi mark the beginning of Pride month by talking about kids and pride! Raimi shares some of the history of Pride and the different approaches and events that make up our current celebrations. Marcelle and Raimi interrogate the concern that Pride is an inappropriate space for kids, and instead highlight the importance of community spaces for people of

What Are You, New?

May 22 2024 36 mins  
In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi look closely at the misconception that trans children are a new phenomenon. They discuss the emergence of terms like ‘transtrender’ or ‘rapid onset gender dysphoria,' and consider the long history of trans-ness in children. Then, Marcelle offers a historical and material analysis of the social constructs we have around children, and, with R

Demystifying Detransition

May 08 2024 44 mins  
In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi talk with special guest and associate producer of the pod, Reese, about detransition and retransition. Following the previous episode's conversation on transition and autonomy, Reese shares their experience with de/re-transition and the trio discuss the fears, guilt and shame that make up the political and social ‘boogeyman’ of detransition.&

Plans, Trans, and Autonomy

Apr 24 2024 45 mins  
Welcome back to the playground! In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi discuss “transition.” We begin with an anecdote from Marcelle about the discomfort she feels labelling her daughter Billie as trans, given Billie started using she/her pronouns soon after becoming verbal. Together, Marcelle and Raimi think through the shortcomings and utility of labels, gender as a social

Pronouns & Preschool

Apr 10 2024 42 mins  
SUBSCRIBE TODAY! New episodes dropping every two weeks.In this episode, Marcelle and Raimi talk about navigating conversations around gender with extended community, other caretakers, and teachers. They discuss the value in setting a positive tone and the importance of giving children space to be playful, despite the political climate and the hostility towards expansive gender expr

The Well-Meaning Auntie

Mar 27 2024 37 mins  
SUBSCRIBE TODAY! New episodes dropping every two weeks.Gender Playground is a new show from Witch, Please Productions and is co-hosted by longtime friends Marcelle Kosman and Raimi Marx. This podcast is all about gender-affirming care for the kids in your life, and YOU are the intended audience! Whether you're a caregiver, parent, family-member, chosen-family-member, teacher,

What Are You Having?

Mar 13 2024 29 mins  
SUBSCRIBE TODAY! New episodes dropping every two weeks.Gender Playground is a new show from Witch, Please Productions and is co-hosted by longtime friends Marcelle Kosman and Raimi Marx. This podcast is all about gender-affirming care for the kids in your life, and YOU are the intended audience! Whether you're a caregiver, parent, family-member, chosen-family-member, teacher,

Gender Euphoria

Feb 28 2024 36 mins  
SUBSCRIBE TODAY! New episodes dropping every two weeks. Gender Playground is a new show from Witch, Please Productions and is co-hosted by longtime friends Marcelle Kosman and Raimi Marx. This podcast is all about gender-affirming care for the kids in your life, and YOU are the intended audience! Whether you're a caregiver, parent, family-member, chosen-family-member, teacher,