Brianna Wu
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's so good to see you.
You know, I've done a lot of media in my career.
I've never done media with someone I had a crush on in the 90s, so this is a big deal for me, so.
Loveline was huge.
Loveline was so huge for our generation because no one, I want to just let people know, like in the 90s, we barely had any conversation about sexuality or anything.
And here comes Dr. Drew.
on Real World.
This is like the same era that Real World is out.
We're finally talking about AIDS and gay people.
And he has a show talking, honestly, about birth control, about sex, about homosexuality, and for me, about transsexual issues.
It was really, really important for me and a lot of women of my generation.
So thank you for that.
So, and I think this is a good segue, because one of my strongest memories from Loveline is you would have people call in.
And back then, this is when we still had the standards of care, and people would call in and they would be fetishistic cross-dressers.
And you and Adam Carolla would joke about it, but you would give them honest health information about their sexuality.
And sometimes people that were transsexuals would come in and you'd give honest medical advice about that.
And I feel very strongly that something that has happened in the 30 years since is we've merged these two categories.
We've flattened out all the differences in these categories, and we are getting people really extreme treatment that is not serving them.
I did.
I did.