Hi Sasha, how are you?

I'm well, this was one of the most powerful conversations I think we've had on the show that you are about to hear. Yeah it was it was harrowing and it was you know all

credit to scarlet you know I think he, I think he's a really a beautiful personality.

Yeah. You know, you know, when he said, you know, my whole childhood was medicalized, he was right you know it feels like doctors imposed a medicalized a

medicalized life on a young sensitive boy.

Yeah, so Scarlet is going to share his story of childhood transition from the age of 12.

His gender questions began to be kind of molded into a trans identity and

a medicalization.

And you know, he describes prior to that having kind of a difficult childhood having some autism traits or maybe a diagnosis and being made to feel as though his femininity was pathological from a very young age, including his exuberance and some of his personality traits.

And so he felt like there was something wrong, you know.

We don't want to put words in Scarlet's mouth,

but that's certainly something that you will probably pick up on

in hearing this interview.

And just

let Scarlet take it away.

first of all, you know, as a child who was medicalized and transition, of course,

Scarlet is Scarlet's legal name.

And when we spoke before the recording, I asked Scarlet, how do you want us to deal with names and

pronouns? And Scarlet said, I want you to just what I said is I try to be as

organic as I can and scarlet said yeah generally I just tell people use whatever makes you

feel comfortable and as you'll hear in Scarlet's story, like, especially by the end of it,

I started to really feel as though I'm just talking with this very lovely sensitive young man who has soft traits and a lovely personality and organically I see Scarlet as a hymn.

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