In this episode of the GenderGP podcast Marianne and Dr Helen sit down together ahead of this year’s International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHoBiT) on May 17th. Marianne shares how transphobia has affected her and her family, and Dr Helen discusses how we can address our own internalised transphobia and start working towards a more accepting society.

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 The GenderGP PodcastThe Impact of TransphobiaHello, this is Dr Helen Webberley. Welcome to our GenderGP Podcast, where we will be discussing some of the issues affecting the trans and non-binary community in the world today, together with my co-host Marianne Oakes, a trans woman herself, and our head of therapy.

Dr Helen Webberley:Hi everyone, Marianne and I today have got the pleasure of talking to each other about the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Bi-phobia, and we will be talking about the transphobia element. Hi Marianne, how are you and how has transphobia impacted on you, your family, your life, if at all? Does it have an impact personally to you? And then we can broaden it out to the people, all the people you've spoken to in the past.

Marianne Oakes:The straightforward answer is yes, it's impacted far beyond me. It does impact straight through to your family, not just your family, but your neighbours and your friends as well. The reality is I think we've got to accept that we do live in a, probably a transphobic society, not overtly transphobic society, but the way we're conditioned and the language that we use, the way we're raised to, you know, be probably cis heteronormative people, just means that it's very difficult to change the whole of society to not say anything that's transphobic. How does it impact my family? How does it impact me? Well it impacts me through my family, really. That's the hardest thing I think that I have to deal with. I can, I can avoid social media if I want, I can avoid spaces where I'm likely to receive transphobia, but I can't protect my family from seeing it and reading it and being influenced by it, I suppose. And even though they are very supportive, very caring, just every now and then something will slip out where they say something and then the next thing it's impacting me, it might impact on how they deal with somebody else. So, yeah, it's, it's like a spider's web. It just spreads out everywhere.

Dr Helen Webberley:Yeah. And interestingly, I mean, we think that the attitudes towards homosexual and bisexual people is a long way behind us, but my daughter, one of her friends came out recently as gay and, and it was still a real that, you know,