328: The 82 Percent #5: What if you were a seahorse dad?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Assigned female at birth, Kayden Coleman navigates abuse, racism, housing insecurity, and a deep questioning of gender, but after finally accepting who he is and transitioning fully to being a man, he finds out he’s pregnant.
Today’s episode featured Kayden Coleman. You can find out more about him on Instagram and TikTok @kaydenxofficial. If you’d like to reach out to him, you can email at [email protected].
This episode is the fifth of our six-part miniseries called the 82 Percent: Modern stories of love and family, produced in collaboration with the Modern Family Institute @modernfamilyinstitute. If you’d like to find out more about the Modern Family Institute, donate to help advance their work, or get engaged, please visit their website, modernfamilyinstitute.org.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Sara Marinelli
Content/Trigger Warnings: child abuse, post-partum depression, suicidal ideation, sexual themes, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.1 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. Today we continue our six-part miniseries called The 82%, modern stories of love and family. |
| 0:23.8 | In celebration of the series for the first time ever, we'll be hosting a live event for the show. |
| 0:29.2 | Next Wednesday, July 24th at Manne's in San Francisco. We'll be joined by the Modern Family Institute as |
| 0:35.1 | well as several storytellers from the series including co-creation and David J |
| 0:39.2 | from the first and second episodes. To get tickets go to the Manies website at |
| 0:43.6 | Welcome to manies.com slash events and find our event the other 82% on July |
| 0:49.8 | 24th. But without further delay we bring you the fifth episode of our 82% series featuring |
| 0:55.8 | Caden Coleman. |
| 0:57.1 | What if you were a seahorse dad? |
| 1:01.4 | My energy is always to being visible and transparent and showing humanity in front of the fact that I am a trans person because people always want me to be trans and then human and then and then. |
| 1:15.4 | I'm a human first. I'm a person just like you and I'm also trans. Trans is not my entire identity. |
| 1:24.0 | I think once people start to see that humanity, |
| 1:27.0 | they see me interacting with my kids, |
| 1:28.0 | they see me cleaning my house and struggling with the dog |
| 1:31.0 | and doing all these things, they're like, wow, I go Witt Misledyne. You are listening to this is actually happening. Episode 328, the 8.28. |
| 2:00.0 | The 82%, what if you were a seahorse dad? |
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| 2:14.9 | from a range of exclusive benefits like six cinema tickets every year with Odean |
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