Adventures in Time and Gender

“There’s a direct line through time connecting the ideas formulated by the sexologists to the way trans people seeking medical interventions are treated today. So, say you were going through a Gender Identity Clinic in 2020, you are part of a system of medicalisation and diagnosis with its origins in the late 19th century. And here’s the thing, I wonder..if you understand why the system works in the way it does, where the thinking came from, then maybe you can critique it.”

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Emma plays the voice of a Time Travelling Suitcase in this time travelling podcast drama series exploring how sexologists from late 19th/early 20th century Europe shaped the western system of medicalisation and diagnosis navigated by trans and non-binary people in the present day.

written by Jason Barker and directed by Krisha Istha