A supporter for the transgender community holds a trans flag in front of counter-protesters to protect attendees from their insults and obscenities at the city's Gay Pride Festival in Atlanta on Satur

What it's Actually Like to be Transgender

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 31, 2023

The news is full of stories about things happening to the transgender community, but it's not often that we hear about what every day life is like as a trans person in the United States. Tuck Woodstock, journalist, educator and host of the Gender Reveal podcast, and Imara Jones, journalist, and founder and creator of Translash Media, and callers that identify as transgender shed light on what it's like to live as a trans person, what gives them gender euphoria, and answer most commonly asked questions about being trans.

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