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Dr Katie McDowell - The Queer Non-Binary Doctor who will Trans-form how you Understand Gender Time: 1:04:03
Dr Katie McDowell is my friend and colleague, and if I’m honest, the first trans and non-binary person I’ve known socially. Over the year that I’ve known Katie my understanding of gender and sexuality has completely transformed. When I thought about calling the podcast "She’s The Doctor", my first thought was to run it by Katie. They approved and were keen to be a guest on the show - so today’s episode is extra special as it is “They’re The Doctor”.
I have had so many interesting conversations with Katie over the last year which have challenged and changed my thoughts on a variety of socially accepted norms around gender, and I’m so glad to be able to share some of these with you today. This episode is a mixture of hearing from Katie about their lived experience as a trans non-binary person and paediatric doctor, but also learning about how we can be better allies, more empathetic doctors to our patients and how far we have to go as a healthcare systems. We hear their story of “coming out” (for want of a better term) as non-binary and the process of having top surgery. We also discuss paediatrics - working as paediatricians, how gender has a huge role in neonates, how we can better care for our LGBTQ+ patients. We touch on many important topics in this conversation and I’m very grateful to Katie for being so open and giving us their time and energy to educate us on topics that people often shy away from discussing.
Where you can find Dr Katie McDowell:
LinkedIn: Dr Katie McDowell
Twitter: @KatuMcD
Trans-formational? Why we need to do better for trans young people in the UK. The British Student Doctor Journal. 2021;5(2):75–84
Where you can find Dr Radhika Thakrar:
Email: doctorradhika28@gmail.com
Instagram: @doctorradhika
Twitter: @RadhikaThakrar
Useful Resources:
Gender / Sexuality / Queer series of graphic novels by Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele
The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye
Life Isn’t Binary by Meg-John Barker
Trans Power by Juno Roche
None of The Above by Travis Alabanza
NB: My Non-Binary Life podcast – Amrou Al-Kadhi & Caitlin Benedict
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Release Date: 06/09/2022, 06:50:49
