{"podcast":{"title":"Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy","slug":"walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989","podcast_index_feed_id":917989,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2433291.rss","website_url":"https://www.phetasy.com/s/walk-ins-welcome","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/44q4h75i2prw21y3mxu8tkcn14no?.jpg","author":"Conversations with people from all walks of life.","episode_count":402,"summary":"Bridget Phetasy admires grit and authenticity. On Walk-Ins Welcome, she talks about the beautiful failures and frightening successes of her own life and the lives of her guests. She doesn’t conduct interviews—she has conversations. Conversations with real people about the real struggle and will remind you that we can laugh in pain and cry in joy but there’s no greater mistake than hiding from it all. By embracing it all, and celebrating it with the stories she’ll bring listeners, she believes that our lowest moments can be the building blocks for our eventual fulfillment. www.phetasy.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T20:20:10.610350+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989"},"episode":{"title":"E378. Gender Affirming Care On Trial - Benjamin Ryan","slug":"e378-gender-affirming-care-on-trial-benjamin-ryan","published_at":"2026-02-19T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989/e378-gender-affirming-care-on-trial-benjamin-ryan","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433291/episodes/18709259-e378-gender-affirming-care-on-trial-benjamin-ryan.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433291/episodes/18709259-e378-gender-affirming-care-on-trial-benjamin-ryan.mp3","summary":"Independent journalist Benjamin Ryan was the only reporter who sat through all three weeks of the first-ever gender surgery malpractice trial. He and Bridget discuss the chilling testimony of a mother who was browbeaten until she consented to her daughter’s mastectomy, a 15-year-old’s 11-month sprint from questioning her gender to surgery, and why the psychologist was an “enabler” instead of a measured professional. They cover the judge who tried to scare Ryan off reporting, why detransitione...","meta_description":"Independent journalist Benjamin Ryan was the only reporter who sat through all three weeks of the first-ever gender surgery malpractice trial. He and Brid…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4670,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989/episodes/e378-gender-affirming-care-on-trial-benjamin-ryan/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989/e378-gender-affirming-care-on-trial-benjamin-ryan.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}