Episode Three: The Trans Tapes

Adventures in Time and Gender

The Narrator plays clips from recordings that they’ve made, interviews with older trans and non-binary people. The interviews start by exploring when people first saw possibility models – trans people in the media. The Narrator asks them about when they found the words to describe themselves. The interviewees share their experiences of navigating the medical system .

The Narrator sees the patterns across history and goes back to the question posed in episode one by the warrior woman – why do they need to prove that trans people have always existed? The Narrator realises just how precious and precarious LGBTIQ+ history is, especially the stories of people of colour. The Narrator looks to the future and the importance of exploring our history and telling our own stories.