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Tranzmission

Tranzmission

Written by: Hosted by Ez Rae Hazel Bette Sev Natalia and Brody
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Bringing you the latest in trans community news, events and discussion. Tranzmission's mission is to amplify the trans and gender non-conforming voices of Meanjin/Brisbane. https://linktr.ee/tranzradioCopyright 2026 Art Hygiene & Healthy Living Politics & Government
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  • Community is The Antidote: We Have What We Need to Survive

    Community is The Antidote: We Have What We Need to Survive
    May 15 2026
    Hosts: Ez (he/him) w/ Special Guest Fae Weichsel (she/her) This week on Tranzmission, Ez (he/him) speaks with New York City–based correspondent Fae Weichsel (she/her) for a powerful conversation on trans survival, resistance, and hope in the United States. Together, they unpack the current political climate shaped by the rise of Trumpism and the MAGA movement, and what it means for trans communities navigating a wave of restrictive legislation across multiple states. The conversation traces the long history of trans resistance from the Stonewall uprising to today with a particular focus on the vital leadership, resistance, and community care, not to forget the work of Black trans women throughout the US queer liberation movement. But this episode doesn’t stop at crisis. We Have What We Need to SURVIVE is about turning toward each other sharing tools, knowledge, and strategies for collective care, resistance, survival, and joy. Ez and Fae explore how chosen family, underground networks, resource sharing, and storytelling have long acted as forms of community defence, sustaining trans life across generations. Throughout the episode, Fae also reshares a powerful speech she delivered at a vigil several years ago, reflecting on grief, solidarity, and the ongoing fight for trans liberation. Together, they examine how mutual aid, community wisdom, and trans-led organising continue to build power and create futures beyond fear — futures still filled with joy, love, and possibility. This is an episode about truth, solidarity, and above all — hope. Find Fae Wiechsel on BlueSky @faefutchauntie.bsky.social and Patreon under faeweichsel 🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the unedited episode - with the music - head to our On Demand website. And don't forget to follow our socials at Facebook and Instagram. Timestamps and Links: 00:00 - Acknowledgement of Country00:20 - Welcome to Tranzmission01:58 - Community News and Events06:57 - Community is The Antidote: Introduction w/ Fae Weichsel13:08 - Community is The Antidote: What's happening in the US31:53 - Community is The Antidote: History & Lived Experience41:49 - Community is The Antidote: Survival, Resistance & Hope 54:59 - Fae Weichsel: Sam Nordquist's Vigil Speach Community News and Events: Advocate: Trailblazing trans lawyer fighting Trump named one of the world’s most influential people by Christopher WigginsPinkNews: British Medical Association no longer opposes Cass Review – apart from puberty blockers ban by Poppy-Jay St. PalmerStar Observer: “Make It Even More Gayer”: Queer Venue ‘Come To Daddy’ Fights Back Against Homophobic Vandals by Patrick LentonStar Observer: Queens Ball To Honour Dame Sybil Von Thorndyke At 65th Annual Event by Patrick LentonCommunity Service Announcement: MORPH Micro Grants Community is the Antidote Links: Reporting from Erin ReedTrans Legislation TrackerNational Center for Transgender EqualityHuman Rights CampaignAustralian Human Rights InstituteLemkin InstituteDownload Signal - Messaging AppStonewall uprisingStreet Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR)Grassroots organisingTrans women of colour leadership (AUS Zoe Belle)Mattachine SocietyAct Up Support Services QLife - 1800 184 527QC LGBT Mental Health ServicesOpen Doors Youth Services Inc.LifeLine - 13 11 14Beyond Blue - 1300 22 4636How to Support Transgender & Gender-questioning YouthTransgender Map Get Involved Trans Justice ProjectMeanjin Peoples Pride Parents of Trans Kids Speak OutProtect Trans Kids QLD 4ZZZ's community lives and creates on Turrbal, Yuggera, and Jagera land. Sovereignty was never ceded. Produced and recorded by Ez at 4zzz in Fortitude Valley, Meanjin/Brisbane Australia on Turrabul and Jaggera Country and audio and cover image edited by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.
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  • Breaking Tortillas Together: Race, Racism, Gender & Community

    Breaking Tortillas Together: Race, Racism, Gender & Community
    May 1 2026
    Host: Ez (he/him) w/ Special Guests Piece Kent (he/him) and Angel Ixchel Pineda (she/her) This week on Tranzmission, we’re holding space for a powerful conversation on race, racism, gender, and community — centering the lived experiences of CALD trans and gender diverse people. We’re joined by Pierce Kent founder of gender affirming underwear brand Dys4ick and Angel Ixchel Pineda, local burlesque performer and comic, who share their stories, cultural perspectives, and reflections on navigating identity at the intersection of race and gender. Ez also reads a poem and a short essay from When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent, bringing in additional voices that speak to culture, identity, and resistance. Together, we unpack how racism and transphobia show up — both in broader society and within LGBTQIA+ spaces — and explore conversations around whiteness, white fragility, and accountability in community reading from “What is white fragility and why white trans women adopt it” by Tara Knight. This episode also makes space for care, cultural connection, and what it means to build solidarity and repair. This is an honest, reflective, and necessary conversation about how we show up for each other and what it takes to create communities that are truly inclusive, supportive, and accountable. 🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the unedited episode - with the music - head to our On Demand website. And don't forget to follow our socials at Facebook and Instagram. Timestamps and Links: 00:00 - Acknowledgement of Country00:20 - Welcome to Tranzmission01:26 - Community News and Events04:47 - Pierce Kent from Dys4ick: Introduction05:10 - Dys4ick collaboration w/ Sock Draw Heros10:14 - Navigating Race and Gender Identity: Pierce - Māhū kāne, Ez - Charrúa 12:38 - Experiences of Racism18:58 - Community: Supportive vs Exclusionary19:46 - Ez Reads: When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent21:03 - Polluted Imprints In A Neurodivergent Mind by [Julia Feliz[(https://medium.com/@jd.feliz)]26:06 - Ocean Home by Zoë Gamell Brown27:52 - Angel Ixchel Pineda: Introduction and Journey - AM to PM by Christina Milian32:04 - Racism and Transphobia42:31 - White Fragility: "What is white fragility and why white trans women adopt it” by Tara Knight44:57 - White Women's Tears: Keeping the POC community down/silent47:08 - Advice: Empathy, Accountability, Discomfort, and Listening52:12 - Further Reading: Links in notes53:05 - Action Statement: What's Next? What can you do? Community News and Events Links Holdsworth House Brisbane Closes Its’ DoorsKIKI's Drag Night @Season Three Friday 1 May, 7-11:30pmShelf Lovers’ Drag Storytime - May @Shelf Lovers (GHA cottage) Saturday 2 May 2-3PM To continue engaging with the ideas explored in this episode, here are some recommended readings: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiDecolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer MullanSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre LordeUnapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene CarruthersBlack on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton Other links: Sock Draw HeroesDy4ick Training WheelsMĀHŪ: A TRANS-PACIFIC LOVE STORYHouse of Alexander Support Services QLife - 1800 184 527QC LGBT Mental Health ServicesOpen Doors Youth Services Inc.LifeLine - 13 11 14Beyond Blue - 1300 22 4636How to Support Transgender & Gender-questioning YouthTransgender Map Get Involved Trans Justice ProjectMeanjin Peoples Pride Parents of Trans Kids Speak OutProtect Trans Kids QLD 4ZZZ's community lives and creates on Turrbal, Yuggera, and Jagera land. Sovereignty was never ceded. Produced and recorded by Ez at 4zzz in Fortitude Valley, Meanjin/Brisbane Australia on Turrabul and Jaggera Country and audio and cover image edited by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.
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    55 mins
  • THE PROBLEM WITH FINLAND

    THE PROBLEM WITH FINLAND
    Apr 24 2026
    This week Bette (she/they) and Ez (he/him) tackle Finland, a country where trans healthcare seems stranded in the previous century, and whose most famous anti-trans adolescent psychiatrist, Riitterkerttu Kaltiala, has collaborated with SEGM, the Florida Board of Medicine, and the Cass Review board. As Kaltiala hosts a webinar for a small Australian trans-skeptical psychiatrists’ group and the internet debates the merits or otherwise of her latest “largely useless” study, Bette shares the testimonies of Finnish trans young people forced to endure a system that is “comparable to torture”. Meanwhile a story has surfaced in the Finnish state-run media: staff at Kaltiala’s EVA Unit have been illegally restraining young residents. Now that they’re tying down cis kids with bedsheets, will the world finally listen? 🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the unedited episode - with the music - head to our On Demand website. And don't forget to follow our socials at Facebook and Instagram. Timestamps and Links: 00:00 - Acknowledgement of Country00:20 - Welcome to Tranzmission01:00 - Content Warning01:36 - Intro to Finland and Riitterkerttu Kaltiala02:55 - The Vine Review: prioritising Finland05:14 - Kaltiala’s RACGP webinar cancelled05:59 - Experiences of young people in the UK: CYPGS and PATHWAYS08:40 - Finland and the Netherlands: small countries, big influences09:57 - Kaltiala timeline11:17 - Kaltiala et al (2019): drops in depression, anxiety, suicidality12:24 - Australian Christian Lobby interview: Which harms?13:48 - Florida Board of Medicine and Cass Review14:24 - Letter to Finnish Parliament15:27 - Ruuska et al (2024): “drastic reduction in suicide risk”18:52 - Ruuska et al (2026): “largely useless as a scientific investigation”20:23 - Assigned Media: Finland is incredibly bad at treating transgender people21:06 - Kehrääjä: Describe to Me How You Masturbate28:41 - Assigned Media: Don’t Forget Your Homework33:47 - Therapy First Clinical Guidelines (now offline)34:44 - Nadrowski: A new flight from womanhood36:16 - Saxby et al (2026): GAHT reduces mental-healthcare use36:55 - Saxby sibling study: Gender-affirming surgeries reduce mental-healthcare use37:23 - Bette asks is mental health the right metric?42:01 - YLE: Staff restricted minors illegally in psychiatric care in Tampere43:52 - Guardian: Most right-wing Finnish government in generations Support Services QLife - 1800 184 527QC LGBT Mental Health ServicesOpen Doors Youth Services Inc.LifeLine - 13 11 14Beyond Blue - 1300 22 4636How to Support Transgender & Gender-questioning YouthTransgender Map Get Involved Trans Justice ProjectMeanjin Peoples Pride Parents of Trans Kids Speak OutProtect Trans Kids QLD 4ZZZ's community lives and creates on Turrbal, Yuggera, and Jagera land. Sovereignty was never ceded. Produced and recorded by Ez at 4zzz in Fortitude Valley, Meanjin/Brisbane Australia on Turrabul and Jaggera Country and audio and copy written and edited by Bette and cover image designed by Tobi for podcast distribution for Creative Broadcasters Limited.
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    46 mins
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