The transgender debate has no shortage of confident opinions. What it often lacks is competence, context, and a willingness to understand the people being discussed.

In Episode 3 of the Gender Centered Podcast, Dr. Corinne Votaw-Freer starts with a personal story from her years in advertising—a suicide-prevention campaign that seemed provocative and helpful at the time, but looks very different through the eyes of a psychologist. It raises a larger question: What happens when people with very little understanding of an issue are given very large microphones?

From there, we get into several stories currently shaping the transgender debate:

• Renee Richards reconsidering transgender participation in women’s sports decades after becoming a pioneering transgender tennis player
• The ongoing fight over transgender driver’s  ...