BBC podcast NB

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Sorry if there's already a thread on this, I couldn't find one.
Has anyone listened to the BBC Sounds podcast NB? The premise is the female born presenter has "come out" as Non Binary and is now doing a lot of "research" / navel gazing into gender issues. I am 3 episodes in and I thought I would hate it but it's actually been quite interesting. Not the host themselves, who seems to have just had a haircut and started wearing binders and suits, and worries whether they can still wear their favourite eye shadow, but some of the contributors are worth a listen. A trans man at a trans museum in Brighton (visited on school trips ) who is older and seems to have little time for the NB label, although is polite. The main co-host, a gay Muslim NB male from Dubai who is a drag artist and talks about his faith and background, and how he attracts more controlling men when done up "femme" because they think he will be subservient. Then dump him when he isn't. Likewise an intersex language specialist who first had surgery age 3.

I mean there is an awful lot wrong with it. 90 minutes in there's still been no definition of NB. And in one episode they go clothes shopping. But some bits have been interesting. Just wondered what anyone else thought (other than why is the BBC putting on 4 hours of this?)

I heard a BBC radio slot (earlier this year around lockdown) - it was more of a monologue by someone who believed their sex to be other than their biological sex. They thought that everyone In the world was looking at them and wishing them bad. People ‘looked at’ them... Also going on about something about ‘light’ (in a mystical way).

It was called something like ‘I just want to piss’ - I thought it was going to be about woman scared to wee in mixed sex loos when it started (I don’t drink when I go out so that I don’t have to go to public loos, I plan where I am going etc).

I sat with baited breath for the piece on a woman who was too scared to visit a mixed sex loo, or had had bad experiences... but no.

BBC is a bit like that though...

There was an aspect of "people are looking at us" in this too. The males seemed to be dressing flamboyantly in a way that would obviously catch the eye while the female wanted to be invisible in jeans and navy jumpers. Expressing her newly discovered true inner self by trying to be invisible while going on national radio. All very conflicted.