Beyond Identity: Bettcher’s Transgender Philosophy

Transgender philosophy professor Talia Mae Bettcher (“Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy”) confronts a world that oppression has turned upside down, and has some bold suggestions for radical, liberating action to stop trans erasure (interviewed by Tanya Kane-Parry). And in NewsWrap: the U.S. Department of the Navy puts its plans to expel Navy and Marine Corps personnel with a history of gender dysphoria into high gear, transgender Representative Zooey Zephyr eloquently convinces the Montana state House that drag performances are not inherently sexual, a licensed Colorado counselor’s free speech complaint against the state ban on conversion therapy goes to the U.S. Supreme Court, a new poll commissioned by a queer advocacy group shows that Australians highly oppose transgender people being scapegoated for political purposes, an insult to transgender U.S. Congressmember Sarah McBride and her ally’s defense blow up a House Foreign Relations Subcommittee hearing, and more international LGBTQ+ news reported this week by David Hunt and Melanie Keller (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the March 17, 2025 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/