What The Trans!?

Bad things.

Hey this is Michelle.

So, bad things.

A combination of things have essentially "triggered" me. As such, I am totally useless and have no idea how to deliver all these things.

So, going to issue refunds this month. Apologies. I just just totally unable to get you what you paid for.

I will be making...

Confidence and body acceptance

Hello, delightful patrons!

We've been thinking about how lockdown has mixed effects when it comes to confidence. For some people, it's given them the freedom to present however they want in the safety of their own homes, while for others, it's led to being unable to present how they want at all due to unsupportive home...

We did a cis allies episode and it didn't show up. Here is why.

Hello, this is Michelle. The sweary one from that pod you like.

We did a cisgender allies special that was so much fun to do. We talked to Owen Jones, Grace Petrie, David Paisley and Josie Long and all four of them are astonishingly wonderful.  They have all publicly stood up for the trans community in wonderful w...

Cis allies

We've been hard at work this week and we're really looking forward to putting out our Cis Allies Special!

To tie in with that theme, check out this open letter to Liz Truss by cis women allies! https://liztrussopenletter.wordpress.com/ &...

Collective fandom name?

The other day, Michelle was telling a friend about how fans of the podcast had helped her to get equipment for making the show, and her friend asked if our audience were called "What The Fans". What do you think of this name? Let us know if you think of an alternative!

Update on a funding goal

Hello, fantastic Patrons! 

We're delighted that you've helped us to reach our funding goal for paying Ashleigh, who is very grateful for your support. However, she's actually decided to take a month out for personal reasons, and feels that it would be unfair to take the money while she isn't actively involved in pr...

Change to how we handle payments

Hello, wonderful supporters!

As we're going to be creating a bunch more Patron-only content to reward certain tiers, we want to switch to charging Patrons up front, starting at the end of this month (31 May). We hope our choice of date will minimise any potential disruption, but this might result in a slight one-off tim...

Celebrity transphobes

We managed to get #GlinnerIsABigot trending this week - many thanks to everyone who helped make it happen! It got us thinking... which other celebrity transphobe do you wish more people would recognise as a bigot?

New Patron tiers, rewards and goals!

Hello, lovely Patrons. How are you doing?

We've been busy behind the scenes, plotting and scheming how to make What The Trans!? even better. Michelle has recruited an army of robots to help organise her schedule, while our new producer Jo has been hard at work doing vital admin stuff that keeps everything running smooth...

Well ain't this a fuckin thing.

Hope this finds you in your various bunkers, keeping safe.

So, What The Trans is going to change slightly. Our pod is still going to report news, but as COVID-19 and the various ramifications of it are the biggest danger to trans people, we are incorporating ways to help trans folks get through this thing. Obviously the...

So we took a two week break...here is why.

So now that we have people donating to us, feels like I owe you an explanation when it comes to the recent unplanned gap between episodes.

Basically, I (Michelle) was recently diagnosed with ADHD. This came with...feelings...and a sudden need to radically change how I do some things.

This made putting out episodes...

Hello lovely patrons! Or is it Patreons? I have no idea

So, we are doing this.

This page was only supposed to be a placeholder until we figure out how this works, but then SOME OF YOU simply couldn't wait and found it yourselves!

Thank you SO MUCH!

As such, we are still scrambling to put this stuff together, but we will start reading out the names of donors at th...