Sex and Gender and Transition with Amethysta Herrick
Part 1: Amethysta Herrick is… or has been… a geneticist, a chemist, a software engineer, and a manager. She is also a transgender woman. If that sounds a little outside your comfort zone, in these times it’s all the more reason to listen in.
In Part 1 of this episode, Ami discusses:
- Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
- Our core set of knowledge
- The fluidity of social norms
- Gender and identity – sex vs gender (things get sciencey here)
- Other terms: non-binary, pansexual, asexual, intersexual
- Dysphoria as Pathology? That’s the medical system!
Facts! and Science! are not the norm it seems these days so if you need to listen twice like I did, do it. Part 2 of our conversation follows this one.
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Agnes - in conversation with Amethysta Herrick, Part 1
Ami gets personal in this second part of our conversation. She explains:
- The two aspects of transition: social and medical
- Components of male to female medical transition
- Why Thailand for surgical transition
- WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health) recommendations
- What puberty blockers for young people are
- Advice for Grammas
And listen as I screw up describing beautiful and pretty! I so appreciate my entire conversation with Amethysta. Listen below and please share!
Agnes - in conversation with Ami, Part 2
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About the guest: Amethysta Herrick
I have been a geneticist, a chemist, a software engineer, and a manager, but my greatest challenge to date is taking on the entrenched fallacy that identity and gender are of concern only to the LGBTQ community. Instead, I teach that identity and gender are ongoing processes with which every human must engage throughout life. My method is analogy and story, especially my own transgender experience. I excel at transforming complicated concepts into engaging content.
I write about several critical human causes, including identity, gender theory, and feminism. I view my work as promoting the essential equality of all humans. Each of us experiences difficulty developing identity and gender, and each of us must engage in these uncomfortable, yet crucial, processes. As such, my work is best described as human activism: making identity safe across the globe.
My personal motto is: Making Transgender Normal Since 2022!
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