Bonus episode: All The Only Ones: The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle

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4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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We're bringing you something special from our play cousins over at Embedded: the first episode of a three part series about the often neglected history of trans youth in America. We meet Zen, a Mexican-American, New Orleans native, who is coming into their transness, as we learn about an historic trans person, Bernard, from Alabama in the early 1900s, fighting to be seen.

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0:00.0	What's good, y'all? This week we're bringing y'all a little extra treat.
0:06.6	So our play cousins over at Embedded have been working on something special.
0:10.2	It's a three-part series about the oft-neglected history of trans youth in the United States,
0:17.0	both past and present, that series is called All The Only Ones and is hosted by Lane Kaplan Levinson.
0:24.0	And we're sharing that first episode of that series with y'all today.
0:29.0	Give it a listen.
0:30.0	Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is Embedded from NPR.
0:35.0	And I am here with reporter Lane Kaplan Levinson.
0:39.0	They are the host of our new series, All the Only Ones.
0:42.0	Hey Lane. Hey Kelly, how's only ones. Hey, Lane.
0:42.9	Hey Kelly, how's it going?
0:44.2	Good, how are you?
0:45.4	Good, I'm so excited about this series.
0:47.7	Oh, that's really, really nice to hear and so happy to be talking to you today.
0:52.4	And yeah, this is just a thrill.
0:53.9	Cool cool cool.
0:54.7	May do.
0:55.7	So for a long time you were a reporter and producer with our friends over at the NPR History
1:01.6	Podcast throughline, right?
1:03.0	Yes.
1:04.0	A show that looks at things that are happening in the news and goes into history for context.
1:08.0	And for the past year, you've been digging into a topic that has been in the headlines a lot these days.
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