Trans & Autistic! Crossword wins! Rewards update!

Hey everyone,

Quick housekeeping notes before I forget.

1. If you have joined the patreon in the last few months and are still waiting on your patreon rewards, I have not forgotten about you! However, I have finally accepted that, realistically, I will not be able to fulfill more rewards (especially $10+ rewards) between now and when the season ends in a month. Please know that even if you cancel your pledge between now and then, I will still send your rewards the next time I get the chance. We owe ya one.

2. There seems to have been a weird glitch last week — can you let me know if you did NOT see a newsletter from us about Tre'vell, etc? 

Thanks for your patience and generous support, everyone! I absolutely could not do this without you, and I appreciate you so much. 

OK, back to business! This/last week on the show, I had the pleasure of speaking with Noah Adams, one of the authors of the book Trans & Autistic. 

Noah very patiently answered my questions about:

•  how/whether transness and autism and ADHD all intersect
• what folks should know about pursuing an adult autism diagnosis
• how ABA and trans conversion therapy are connected(!)
• how trans autistic people face even more medical gatekeeping than other trans people
• whether we should say "autistic people or "people with autism"
• what the Rain Main stereotype is and how it's inaccurate 

and so much more! I've already been hearing that this episode is helpful to folks, which makes me so happy. Please feel free to share it around if that feels right to you.

In other, arguably more important news, one of our dear patrons alerted us to the fact that WE WERE A CROSSWORD PUZZLE CLUE?!?!?!?!?!? Along with our dear friends at Marsha's Plate??!!? 

It turns out that the USA Today Crossword editor is like 26 years old and extremely cool, which is why he was thoughtful enough to include us. Thank you to Erik the podcast editor, to Emily Heller for telling us about Erik, and to our wonderful patron for letting us know that this happened. :) 

As I write this, there are just a few hours left to shop our February merch collection. (Cue "The Final Countdown" playing vaguely in the distance.)

Tomorrow, we're releasing one of our signature advice episodes, Gender 602, featuring my favorite therapist, Tehya. You may remember Tehya from Episode 69 — I remember them from being one of two people I've seen this year, lol. 

Here we are last month: 

In personal news, it's oddly sunny here today, so I'm going to try to get out there before the sun fully sets. Here's your weekly Rhubarb (she's also been enjoying the sun).

xoxo,
Yr resident gender detective