Welcome to the first episode of Gender Centered.

The conversation about transgender people has become almost impossible to separate from politics. One side tells you gender-affirming care is unquestionably settled science. The other tells you doctors are mutilating children for profit. Activists cherry-pick research. Politicians cherry-pick anecdotes. And somewhere underneath all of it are real people trying to understand what the evidence says and what good healthcare should look like.

That’s where this podcast starts.

I’m Dr. Corinne Votaw-Freer, a psychologist, gender specialist, and author of Gender Centered. I wrote the book because I became increasingly frustrated with how difficult it was to find serious conversations about gender that weren’t filtered through a political loyalty test. But before ...