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Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood. I'm your host, Daniel Lavery, and with me in this

studio this week is Ella Johnston, a Latino trans man and licensed marriage and family therapist.

He's the author of the recently published book, Am I Trans Enough?

And co-host of the Wonder Mind podcast, Baggage Drop. Ella, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

The answer for me to your question is yes. So I'm glad we have gotten that one out of the way.

I am trans enough.

No spoilers, and I say in the introduction the answer is yes.

So you don't really have to get that far of the book even, so I'm glad we...

Yeah, it's not great necessarily what the end of the 200 pages will get you.

Yeah, glad to hear you don't just open with sounds like a skill issue.

Well, with that out of the way, I am really looking forward to advising some people, some of whom are

trans. I'd like to say, oh, I specially prepared these for us, but I just get a lot of questions

from trans people, so sometimes that's also just it is what it is.

But we're going to start, I think, with like the easiest question, and we're going up in

difficulty today. So we're going to start easy and end with something slightly more complex,

which I think is a pretty good way to progress. So I'll take our first letter, assuming you're

doing well. I don't know, I dispensed with the pleasantries. Are you doing well? Are you feeling

excited? Do you think that you know how to tell these people how to live?

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