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Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: Buck Angel Bucks the Trend: An Old-School Transexual on the New Transgender Movement
Description: Buck Angel is an entrepreneur and a speaker and educator about transgender issues, particularly issues related to trans healthcare. Now in his late 50s, he transitioned from female to male in his late 20s and has more recently became a controversial figure in certain corners of the trans community. He talked with Meghan about why he's so controversial, what it's been like to spend decades on masculinizing hormone therapy, and why he's worried about the number of clinicians now prescribing such therapies to young people after minimal psychological counseling.  For the record: at one point in the interview Buck mistakenly re...