Episode 173: James Barnes, The Trans Coach

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Get ready to have your pants charmed off (consensually) by James Barnes, aka The Trans Coach! A corporate trainer who specializes in LGBTQ education, James transitioned almost seven years ago, and today has a wife and two small children. But he started out in a family of missionaries, and was groomed from an early age to be a pastor due to his ability to effortlessly connect with people. James shares how the discomfort of house-hunting as a trans person unexpectedly led him to his dream career, how he managed to keep his ample Christian network through both coming out as gay *and* coming out as trans, and how empathy is at the center of everything he does. He also provides some excellent advice for coming out to family, and we discuss why shaking hands is a billion times weirder than saying your pronouns!

website: thetranscoach.com
socials: @thetranscoach

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0:00.0	Hey y'all. Hi. Welcome. Ooh. Listen to the voice of our guest today. Welcome to coming out with Lord and Nicole. We are a weekly podcast where we have queer folks on from all walks of life. They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:23.6	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:26.5	Today, we are blessed to have James Barnes, the trans coach, on with us.
0:34.2	Hello, he's a corporate trainer who specializes in LGBTQ education. Hey, James.
0:40.9	Hello. Pleasure to be here. Oh, we're so happy to have you. You know, it's interesting.
0:47.0	Like, I don't even know how exactly I came across you on Instagram. Instagram might have just
0:53.8	suggested you to me because it was like,
0:56.9	we know what you like.
0:58.0	And so then I was like, ooh, and then I saw what you were doing.
1:03.0	And I obviously really appreciate your videos and your message and everything.
1:07.6	So please introduce yourself to the people out there and tell us a little bit
1:12.5	about yourself. Well, I will do that. So my name, as you said is James. I transitioned about just to
1:19.7	jump right in because it's pretty, it's pretty core to what I do. So I transitioned about six and a half years ago this January, actually, it'll be seven
1:30.8	years.
1:32.2	And when I transitioned, I got married.
1:35.7	We had our daughter.
1:37.4	And when we bought the house to, wow, I just jumped like a whole bunch.
1:43.4	So it's hard to condense all of this into one little thing, but it goes in hand.
1:49.2	So I transitioned.
1:50.6	We had Addy and my wife and I needed a bigger house.
1:54.1	And so we sold that house, moved into a new house.
1:56.9	But in the process, I had just changed my name.
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