Let's Talk Gender

Let's Talk Gender


Latest Episodes

Episode 6: Medical Transition: HRT
February 07, 2020

OVERVIEW The changes with HRT are some of the most positive and euphoric aspects of transition. We talk about Jake’s experience with Testosterone and going through his second puberty. He talks about a

Episode 5: Social Transition: Coming Out At Work
January 31, 2020

OVERVIEW Jake has now been out at work for nearly two years. We discuss his process for coming out at work from the preparation, through coming out, and all the frustrations that happened afterwards i

Episode 4: Social Transition: Coming Out To Family
January 24, 2020

OVERVIEW Coming out to friends and family is a long process that involves lots of uncertainty, strategy, and a bit of luck. We discuss Jake’s process of coming out as a trans man and Meaghan Ray’s exp

Episode 3: Personal Transition: Gender Exploration
January 17, 2020

OVERVIEW The first stage of transition is the personal exploration of your gender. We discuss what the process of exploring your gender feels like, how each of us figured it out in different ways, and

Episode 2: Transition Timelines
January 10, 2020

OVERVIEW Transitioning is a slow, often frustrating, ongoing process. It can roughly be broken down into four phases: personal, social, medical, and legal. We discuss the general timeline of each phas

Let’s Talk Gender Episode 1: Language and Labels
January 03, 2020

OVERVIEW Language and labels are used to communicate our identities to others but for trans people, the first step of this process is finding language and labels to understand and define our own ident