JustPearlyThings - June 25, 2023


Trans Man Shares EXPERIENCE On AIR

Hosted by
Hannah Pearl Davis
Plus Sized Man Gets Offended After Learning This Fact Logical Women Call Out The Trans Community

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8 minutes

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1,560

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2

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1

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In this episode, I sit down with my trans friends, Paul and Paula, to talk about their transition journey. We talk about the process of transitioning, the transition process, and what it's like transitioning as a trans person.

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00:00:00.000 i have i have a question um because you two you two are both trans so i'm curious um
00:00:07.280 when you guys transitioned how old were you i didn't even know that i guess we can't tell
00:00:12.000 trans thank you i really appreciate that what i mean i just that's like that's something that
00:00:17.120 we should have the opportunity okay all right i just figured this is what you came on the podcast
00:00:21.760 to talk about sorry i didn't mean that still you know you don't necessarily out your gay friends
00:00:26.320 okay but you can tell i didn't well i don't know if anyone i'm not i'm not trying to be rude i'm
00:00:34.320 just being honest i mean i don't think paul said anything wrong i think obviously i can understand
00:00:39.680 to why you said like you know it's your kind of position to say and tell people but then
00:00:47.120 this is i just i feel like if you have if you were a man before and now you're a female if you're a
00:00:54.080 female now you're a man do you not think that it's facts like do you not think that you know
00:00:59.920 you still i don't know it's okay to say they're still biologically male or biologically female but
00:01:06.080 if they're presenting as a woman do you want to answer the question or no what was the question
00:01:11.600 what when did you transition how old so i came out when i was 28 okay i started my medical transition
00:01:17.360 two years ago okay and what was the process the process of like like of transitioning i'm just curious
00:01:23.520 how um in the process okay you're still i don't know how it works i'm in the process okay
00:01:31.600 medically for two years okay what about you i'll start when i was 25 okay um so my question is did
00:01:39.520 they look at you guys as hormones before because i i've worked i just i'm only asking because i worked
00:01:46.080 with a doctor um and he said sometimes trans people if they think they're the opposite gender but really
00:01:52.480 it's like their hormones are really off and so i'll talk for myself i'll talk yeah so like with me
00:02:00.800 yeah like i've always been a boy like since i was a kid i've i've i've always been a little boy
00:02:08.320 and you know i'm i was born in 1988 i grew up in the 90s yeah by the time i was 18 it was like
00:02:16.800 early i can't remember now but you know whatever the timeline is but it's a different time now than
00:02:23.440 it is for then and i can only imagine for people that were born you know earlier on than me but for
00:02:29.600 me i had to pretend for a long time that i liked boys you know i mean i had to pretend that i wasn't
00:02:38.240 a boy trapped in a girl's body because of of of losing my friends people's opinions it was a lonely
00:02:48.800 time um but i've always been a boy i've never been interested in all of that stuff and my parents put
00:02:55.280 me in a girl's high school and i swear to you yeah i i i was looking far and wide for the tomboys in
00:03:02.800 my question my question is more like i'm just i'm just curious if they did anything to prevent
00:03:08.560 you from transitioning when you went to the doctor so if they said let's get your hormones checked out 0.98
00:03:12.720 first let's do therapy first or did they did they just have you transition no so like they did the
00:03:17.600 therapy so it wasn't really therapy it was like they just asked you questions and like i was never uh
00:03:24.480 i've always like cared about what people think like i've always i've always cared about what people
00:03:29.920 think you know people's opinions of me has always mattered to me and i got to the point where i was
00:03:34.640 so unhappy that i just i had to put myself first like i had to really just say like you're not happy
00:03:43.200 with your life you're not happy with how you feel about yourself people would tell me i'm pretty and
00:03:48.560 i just feel ugly like i just didn't want i did i just didn't like any of it you know i mean it was
00:03:54.960 really difficult it's it's it's and it goes back way before so i'm just curious when you went to the
00:04:00.960 doctors they they had you do therapy so they spoke to me they asked me about my my past how long i've
00:04:07.600 wanted to do this for and all of these things and and so forth but i was really i was really excited
00:04:13.440 i was like look i need to do this i'm 25 i look in the mirror i don't see a 25 year old man and i felt
00:04:20.160 crap i felt really crap you know i mean and even when i started my transition i didn't get any facial
00:04:25.680 hair for a long time i thought okay so so when you went it's important so did they did they do therapy 0.96
00:04:31.120 first i'm just asking what do they do to prevent it or do they just give you guys drugs i don't do like
00:04:36.480 they let you talk they give you an open space and they judge you based on in my opinion my experience
00:04:41.200 this was like 10 years ago but they they they ask you relevant questions and they basis base it on what
00:04:48.240 they perceive how serious you are so therapy yes or no i just want do they have you do therapy first
00:04:54.560 yes or no i i i personally wouldn't call it therapy in my opinion that's not what i would call it
00:05:00.720 wait how old were you when you started did you say you were 25 when you started me yeah yeah okay so he
00:05:07.280 wasn't a kid anyway right i'm not saying they should or they shouldn't i'm just asking okay so yes no okay
00:05:13.600 or sorry yes no but but they what they probably gave me the same thing how long did you do therapy
00:05:19.040 for i had 20 sessions of therapy i had 20 sessions of therapy that's like over what three months and
00:05:24.080 then four months over longer than that okay um and then um yeah like i there was quite a rigorous um
00:05:33.520 like a discussion like couple discussions with um psychologists um you know like it was i was 28
00:05:43.280 eight when i went to my gp about it um i was 32 or 33 uh just before i was 32 when i started hormones
00:05:53.520 i had already thought about every single possibility this is not necessarily something i actually wanted
00:05:59.040 to do to my body but this is something that actually saved my life um i like um like you i i knew
00:06:07.680 from quite young from when i was about four that i was very very different there was something that
00:06:11.600 didn't connect um i tried to ignore that i tried to absolutely eradicate that from my being especially
00:06:18.640 as it was always said to me so negatively oh you want to be a boy in it or all of this it was always
00:06:24.480 extremely negative connotations so i really tried to and that was from being young there was there was
00:06:28.960 like we you know they were they were transgender people within my community when i was a kid in south
00:06:33.120 london okay so but you did roughly six months a year of therapy yeah okay which one six months or a year
00:06:40.080 just over six months okay six months of therapy and then did they check you guys as hormones first
00:06:45.120 they checked mine they checked they didn't want so did you have like low high testosterone like what
00:06:49.680 to be honest i don't know i didn't ask okay because i i just imagined that would be something they'd go
00:06:55.520 through with you if they're checking it possible i mean to be honest you don't remember no i got adhd as well
00:07:00.720 so okay what about you they check your hormones they do yeah yeah yeah they check my they check
00:07:08.240 my hormones and stuff but i can't remember what the results was i will say there is more to it than
00:07:13.600 just having abnormally high i am an owner of abnormally high testosterone i take two anti-androgens
00:07:21.840 um myself because i have polycystic ovary syndrome um insulin resistance is high um these medications
00:07:30.240 have stopped me from experiences and some of the medications would be the same as what a trans 0.99
00:07:35.280 woman would take um so i do think that being a trans woman there's more to it than just having high
00:07:41.360 a lot of women just have high testosterone especially if you're doing sports and stuff right no no that's 1.00
00:07:45.680 true um sports does raise your um testosterone but but i i just worked with a doctor he said he's
00:07:51.680 been doing it for 20 years i do think it's good to get your yeah no i'm just wondering if they do that
00:07:56.000 first i'm gonna do super chats for a second and then we'll go on to the next questions um these are
00:08:01.440 not my opinions some of these might be me