We Want Everyone To Be Themselves | Featuring Red Gin and Chronic, The Podcast

TW: Suicide. We've got another cousin on the G&C pod - this time to share important conversations about gender and mental health! Meet Red, Claire's cousin, a fellow heathcare worker, chronic illness warrior, and a non-binary, trans masc person. Red talks about his journey of self-discovery and how our pronouns are able to keep changing. They discuss how body image and expectations have become too much of a focus and talk about body neutrality as an option instead. Red shares the range in how companies and communies use pronouns and consider gender, and discusses taking an inadequate intake form and improving it to include important identity-based questions. Once again, profit margins seem to control what healthcare companies decide to care about. There's a lot that still needs to change to make healthcare more accessible to queer and trans patients, particularly de-pathologizing gender presentation. Red shares about his mental health journey, as well, which includes discussion of suicide, anxiety, bipolar tendencies/disorder, borderline tendencies/disorder, and ADHD. This brings up concerns about the tendency to over-diagnose or label, genetic mental health trends, over-medication, a pattern of blaming the patient, and the tendency of minoritized groups to people-please towards the majority, oppressive group. Red and Claire end by sharing information about Monkey Pox and the inherent blame and discrimination in the description.