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00:00 I came to see you Dr. Pauly because I understood that you are the reigning
00:04 expert on the female-to-male transsexual and I also understood that that you had
00:11 not met or heard of a female-to-male transsexual who identified as a gay man
00:17 and that's exactly what I am and I want my story preserved.
00:22 You wanted to know what it's like in an actual bathhouse?
00:26 I've thought about it.
00:29 And so I think about the early narratives of transness it was like you
00:34 were female to male or you're male to female and that's it and you're
00:36 heterosexual. Then you started to see the like parentheses of trans men and
00:41 trans masculine folk who were engaging with men and it was like this big secret
00:45 and I was like why was it such a secret? We were all doing it.
00:50 [Music]
01:09 Archive fever?
01:11 [Music]
01:13 And so yeah so I don't know it's weird to be like chicken or the egg like you
01:17 know did the tea make me gay? Was I always destined to be interested in men?
01:22 [Music]
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