DEEP DIVE: Ellen Kahn On Supporting Our LGBTQ Kids

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Kids & Family, Comedy, Parenting

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ellen Kahn⁠ is the Senior Director of Programs and Partnerships at the Human Rights Campaign. In her role, Ellen provides national leadership and expertise in public education and advocacy efforts on behalf of LGBTQ youth and families. Ellen is nationally recognized as an expert on LGBTQ family life and LGBTQ youth. She's also a proud mom of two teenage daughters. In this interview, Ellen explains how parents can create a home environment that affirms and accepts LGBTQ children, and how to advocate for LGBTQ kids in the larger world– whether they're our own children or not. As Ellen explains: "It's all of us together, chiseling away at the reason parents can be fearful when they find out their child is LGBTQ. Let's just not raise bullies anymore." Here are a few additional resources mentioned in this episode: Human Rights Campaign's ⁠welcomingschools.org⁠ ⁠pflag.org⁠ "Serendipitydodah- Home of the Mama Bears" Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Serendipitydodah We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/⁠⁠⁠⁠ mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, inclusive, inclusivity , transgender, trans kids, transgender kids, support for trans kids, trans rights, queer kids, lgbtq kids Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Fresh Take from What Fresh Hell Laughing in the Face of Motherhood.
0:37.4	This is Margaret.
0:38.7	And this is Amy.
0:39.6	And today we're talking to Ellen Kahn.
0:41.6	She's the Senior Director of Programs and Partnerships at the Human Rights Campaign.
0:45.5	In her role, Ellen provides national leadership and expertise in public education and advocacy efforts on behalf of LGBTQ youth and families.
0:54.3	Ellen has shaped innovative system change work in child welfare, education, and health care.
0:59.3	She's nationally recognized as an expert on LGBTQ family life and LGBTQ youth.
1:05.1	Ellen is also a proud mom of two fabulous teenage daughters.
1:08.8	Today we're going to talk with Alan about how parents can create a
1:11.7	home environment that affirms and accepts LGBTQ children and how to advocate for them in the larger
1:16.7	world. Welcome, Alan. Thank you. I sound so interesting, don't I? Well, we like a good bio. We always say,
1:22.8	listen, we set you up for success, but then you got to deliver. Listen, the big bio means we expect
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