The Gender Rebels Podcast24 Sep 2023

Fight Your Health Insurance to Get Your FFS Covered

Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is not covered by some health plans. If your health insurance company says they won't pay for a surgery you need, you can appeal that decision. Listener Robin asks for tips from Faith, who succeeded with her appeal on her third try.

Our other FFS episodes: Faith F's her F Part I Faith F's her F Part II

Faith vs Her Health Insurance

"Insemination style genitalia" and "gestational genitalia" are terms that Faith thought up in her weird brain and we do NOT recommend googling them. Kath thinks AFAB and AMAB are adequate. Faith learned about appealing decisions from your health insurance at the Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference. There was no 2023 conference but there will be one in 2024 and we will see you there! Legal aid societies that can help you with your appeal, for each state. Faith said people with gestational genitalia (aka AFAB people or people who were assigned female at birth) "retain neoteny". Neoteny refers to child-like facial characteristics. These “neotenous” characteristics include a large forehead with lower set eyes, nose and mouth; a smaller, shorter, more recessive chin; fuller lips; larger eyes; a smaller nose; higher, thinner eyebrows; and a rounder, less angular face. This can be (but is not always) associated with attractiveness, to some people. Our old video of conventionally attractive people whose facial features are androgynous or even skew toward those of the opposite gender included the jerk Ezra Miller. Join us in cancelling that creep. Faith's surgeon, Bella Avanessian, MD at Mt Sinai, also has Jazz Jennings as a patient. See Dr. A. in this video as a baby doctor, just starting her surgical fellowship. Legal Eagle YouTuber has an episode about arbitrators and also "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". Former New York State governor Mario Cuomo groped staff members and helped the LGBTQ+ community a lot. Those are two uncomfortable truths we have to live with.

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Rebels in Ireland Part 1

A LOT has happened since we lst talked, and the wedding isn't even the half of it!! Like us on FaceBook so we can haunt your feed. Faith's book, American Transgirl, available now! Music by one of ou...

13 Juli 34min

Our "Will & Harper" review, Part II

We review Netflix's Will & Harper. Overall we think it's really really good and can help educate people who might need it. Faith says she can't get U.S. State Department Security Clearance because s...

12 Nov 202441min

"Will & Harper" : The Gender Rebels Review

5 Nov 202437min

Trans Surgeries for Prisoners

We're in the news again, yay. First, the stats: The US held 21.0% of the world's prisoners in 2015, even though the US represented only around 4.4 percent of the world's population in 2015. The Wikipe...

21 Okt 202429min

She's the Man

Faith and Kath are surprised that they liked this movie so much. Remember Amanda Bynes? She's so funny and we at TGR Headquarters wish her well. The movie is helped by surprisingly funny Channing Tat...

4 Sep 20241h 23min

Some Like It Trans

Today we watched director Billy Wilder's 1959 hit Some Like It Hot, winner of 11 Academy Awards. Our feelings are... complicated. But for a movie with cross-dressing, produced in compliance with the H...

26 Maj 202448min

I Saw the TV Glow: The Rebels Go To the Movies

Yesterday we went to I Saw The TV Glow followed by a Q&A with writer/ director Jane Schoenbrun. Brigette Lundy-Paine and Justice Smith star in a coming-of-age story where two junior high outsiders fi...

5 Maj 202427min

You Can Get SRS and Still Be a Good Leftist

This week we saw a reddit post that asked "Would I be a bad leftist if I get SRS?" It started with "my ex told me that girls who get SRS are an obstacle for trans liberation." Wow. We knew Faith neede...

10 Feb 202423min