In 2008 and 2009 TranSister Radio regularly broadcast news, music and interviews for the transgender community on the Canterbury community radio station Plains FM. The programme was founded and run by transgender woman Joanne Clarke. Clarke is part of the drag act Playgirls and author of a best-selling cookbook, Never trust a skinny cook. Listen to part of an interview with Ernest, a transgender man.
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So, for me masculinity is not whether you were born with a penis. That's irrelevant cos I know some people that had that piece of anatomy that I certainly wouldn't call them men. Not in any way. Being male is not about being overly butch and aggressive. That's a concept that I think it's quite wrong.
[Interviewer] We hear a thing about roid rage and stuff like that. Is that is it a reality or is that that more for the body builders?
More I think for the body builders. They take it at a higher level than the human body is designed for. When you go to an endocrinologist and they give you the hormones, they give you what is a normal dose that every Jo average walking down the road has got. Jo average walking down the road doesn't have roid rage. So whilst you are getting a anabolic steroid which is what gives body builders roid rage, it's not relevant to transgendered men because we aren't triple and quadruple dosing our bodies with such an aggressive kind of a hormone.
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