All The Only Ones: I can't wait

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In part 2, 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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0:00.0	This message comes from NPR sponsor Shopify, the global commerce platform that helps you sell and show up exactly the way you want to. Customize your online store to your style. Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at shopify.com slash NPR.
0:17.0	Hey I'm Kelly McEvers and this is Embedded from NPR.
0:21.7	Today we're going to hear part two of our latest series.
0:25.2	It's called All The Only Ones.
0:28.0	In the last episode, reporter and host Lane Kaplan Levinson
0:32.1	took us back about 100 years years ago into the 1920s and 30s
0:36.7	when gender transition through medicine became possible. In this episode Lane jumps forward a few decades to the 1960s
0:45.8	which was another formative decade in the history of trans youth and Lane looks at
0:51.2	how those experiences are relevant today.
0:55.0	Just a note before we get into the episode, historical figures in this series are represented by actors.
1:02.0	The actors are reading people's real words from letters or
1:04.9	medical records which we got from a historian or from our own reporting. We
1:10.6	don't know the names of the patients because their names were redacted in the medical records,
1:15.9	so we refer to them by the pseudonyms assigned by the historian who uncovered their stories.
1:21.2	Also one last thing I need to say this episode does
1:24.8	mention suicidal ideation and includes profanity. Okay here's Lane.
1:37.0	What are you looking forward to about your future? Getting out of this god awful place.
1:41.0	This is Parker Parker. place.
1:45.0	This is Parker Parker. When I met him, he was a senior in high school living in Ohio.
1:49.0	Lots of high school kids like Parker can't wait to get out of their hometown. But Parker wants to leave the Ohio
1:55.0	suburbs, not because he has some romantic idea about all he could do and be in some big city
2:00.5	across the country. He wants to leave his home because it doesn't feel safe
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