All The Only Ones: I can't wait

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week we're bringing you a special episode from the Embedded series 'All the Only Ones.' The series looks at the history of trans youth next to the realities experienced by trans youth today. In this episode, we meet Parker, a senior in high school in Columbus, Ohio. Parker is a top field hockey athlete, but as a trans person, he is faced with making a difficult decision: either pursuing his dreams as a D1 trans field hockey player in college next year, or pursuing his dreams of starting hormone replacement therapy, which could get him banned from playing. We also meet two historical trans youth of the 1960s, Vicky and Donna, both facing barriers to getting the care and treatment they need after repeatedly looking for help.

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0:17.0	Hey Hey I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show where we talk about
0:25.9	what's going on in our culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:30.9	Today, we're bringing you a special by accident.
0:39.0	Today we're bringing you a special episode from our friends over at NPR's Embedded Podcast. It's part of a series called All the Only Ones, which looks at the history of trans youth and what
0:45.6	young trans people are facing today.
0:49.2	In the series, Host Lane Kaplan Levinson goes 100 years back in time, but this particular episode focuses
0:56.1	on the 1960s, and how what was happening then has echoes today.
1:01.6	Now a quick note before we get into it historical figures in this
1:04.9	story are represented by actors and they'll be reading people's real words either
1:09.8	from letters or medical records and while we don't know the names of the patients
1:14.8	because their names were redacted
1:16.5	from those medical records,
1:18.2	Lane will be using their pseudonyms,
1:20.6	which were assigned by the historian
1:22.2	who uncovered their stories.
1:24.0	And a quick warning, this episode includes profanity and mentions of suicidal ideation.
1:30.0	Listen with Care.
1:32.0	All right, here's Lane.
1:35.0	What are you looking forward to about your future?
1:40.0	Getting out of this god awful place.
1:44.0	This is Parker Parker.
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