A Prison Guard In Transition

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Mandi Hauwert thought coming out as a transgender woman while working as a guard at California's San Quentin State Prison would be "insane." She did it anyway. Support Death, Sex & Money by becoming a monthly sustaining member. Sign up now. Subscribe to the Death, Sex & Money newsletter! This week, we feature your advice for a fellow listener who's settling into a new town. Sign up here: deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Follow the show on Twitter @deathsexmoney and Facebook at facebook.com/deathsexmoney. Email us any time at deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was done for I was ready to to basically call it quits and die because at that point obviously
0:08.8	I didn't imagine coming out as a prison guard. This is death, sex, and money.
0:15.0	Say it's dead, baby.
0:19.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:23.6	Do you know what it is to be a lover?
0:25.6	And need to talk about more.
0:27.6	The contract is null and void in the event of marital infidelity.
0:30.4	You fuck around, she gets rich.
0:32.4	I'm Anna Sam. Fidelity, you fuck around, she gets rich.
0:33.0	I'm Anna Sale.
0:36.6	I met Mandy Howard at her home in Petaluma, California.
0:39.9	It's a bedroom community north of San Francisco.
0:42.5	It was a Thursday, her day off of work.
0:44.7	Hi, how you doing, Randy?
0:46.1	She showed me around the split level house
0:48.0	that she shares with three dogs, two cats,
0:50.7	and four roommates.
0:52.4	We have our landlading and we have another trans woman and a couple lives downstairs.
0:58.8	How much is your rent here if you mind?
1:00.8	$700? That is a deal in this area of the country.
1:05.0	And it's a great house.
1:07.0	My parents were so happy when they saw that I was living here.
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