516: Rae McDaniel: Taking The Suffering Out Of Transitioning for Trans People

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Rae McDaniel, MEd, LCPC, CST (They/Them) is a Gender and Certified Sex Therapist and Coach who works with folks feeling anxious and lost about a transition they’re experiencing in sex, gender, sexual identity, or relationships. Rae also provides consultation & training for professionals and organizations wishing to uplevel their knowledge and expertise in these areas. Rae is the founder of Practical Audacity, a Gender & Sex Therapy group practice in Chicago, and GenderFck: The Club, an online group coaching community designed to help transgender/non-binary/questioning folks transition with less suffering and more ease. Listen in to hear Rae share: Their experience growing up adopted into a family of evangelical christian missionary puppeteers The evolution of their identity from bisexual to queer to non binary The relief of coming out as non binary Why not everyone in your life needs to know all the ins and outs of your identity and how you can prioritize safety when coming out How gender exists on a spectrum, not just two categories of male and female Why they are having top surgery and how they came to this decision Why they use they/them pronouns and why pronouns matter Why it’s inaccurate to refer to someone’s pronouns as their “preferred pronouns” How they are working to take the suffering out of transitioning for trans people Linke mentioned: Connect with Rae: Practical Audacity Join Rae’s Genderfck program Rae on IG/FB: @practicalaudacity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 516 with Ray McDaniel. Show notes for this episode,
0:06.5	including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and
0:10.6	clicking on episode 516.
0:17.3	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other
0:22.8	passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:29.0	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:34.4	Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free private Facebook group to connect with other
0:40.1	shameless moms just like you.
0:42.0	You can find us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook.
0:46.5	All right.
0:47.1	Let's dive into today's episode.
0:52.7	Hello, Mamas.
0:53.6	Happy February. I'm so excited to be kicking off another month with you. And this
0:57.3	week we have something special. We have two guests in one week. And today we are going to be
1:02.1	chatting with Ray McDaniel, our first non-binary guest. I'm so excited for you to listen in on this
1:07.9	conversation. And then Wednesday, starting this Wednesday,
1:11.6	and every Wednesday in February, we will have a different black woman coming in to share different
1:16.9	kinds of life experiences, but we're honoring black women this month during Black History Month.
1:21.5	And so on Wednesday, Dana Parrish, Dennis is going to come in and talk to us about being
1:25.5	the only black woman in her med class. So Dana is a pediatrician, and I think you're going to love hearing her experience. You're going to come in and talk to us about being the only black woman in her med class.
1:28.5	So Dana is a pediatrician, and I think you're going to love hearing her experience. You're going to
1:31.8	learn a ton from her. You're going to be inspired by her drive and motivation and her wisdom for
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