Episode 134: Transgender Listener "Pidgeon"

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Relationships, Sexuality, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2013

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

He is still physically female but has always identified as a male. He talks about what it means to be genderfluid or genderqueer as well as pansexual and the diffiult road in discovering who he is and expressing that around others, especially family. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 134 with my guest, Pigeon, who is a listener and transgender.
0:07.8	I'm Paul Gilmarten, this is the metal illness happy hour.
0:11.3	Two hours of honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions,
0:16.2	past traumas and sexual abuse to everyday compulsive negative thinking.
0:19.9	This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling, it's not
0:24.3	a doctor's office, it's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.
0:27.8	The website for this show is menselpod.com, it's also the Twitter name that you can follow
0:32.5	me at.
0:33.5	Please go check out the website, you can join the forum, you can read blogs by me and guests
0:40.1	on a variety of topics.
0:42.0	You can fill out one of the many surveys that we read on the show and you can also support
0:47.3	the show by going there.
0:49.7	We have a winner for this week's cutting board raffle, which was open to transcribers
0:57.6	and monthly donors, and the number that I had picked was 253, and the winner is Cheryl
1:04.7	Gendron.
1:05.7	I think I'm pronouncing that right, who guessed 254, so I'll be sending her that cutting
1:11.2	board.
1:12.2	Congratulations, Cheryl, and thanks to all of you who sent your numbers in, but you didn't
1:17.8	get it, so suck it.
1:19.5	That seemed a little harsh.
1:23.0	To remind you that LA Podfest is coming up October 4th through 6th, and that's in LA
1:30.9	at the Sheraton, Delphina.
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