Hey everybody. Hey y'all. Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole. We are a weekly podcast where traditionally we have on queer folks from all walks of life. They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large. Because who doesn't love a coming out story?

And today we are having a queer adjacent person, an ally, if you will.

In fact, he describes himself as a cis hetero dad.

We have my old buddy who we're calling Jay for this episode. Hey, Jay.

Hey. Welcome. Thank you so much. Yeah, we've been trying to coordinate this episode for a

while. Yes. It has been a journey. This is very exciting for us.

Yeah, because Jay has a real person job and two kids and schedule.

You know, it's hard.

We're in a pandemic, et cetera, et cetera.

But we have been dead set on recording with him for so long, for all the reasons that we will get into.

And yeah, we are using a pseudonym.

When we do refer to his daughter, we'll just be using, we'll be using an initial.

Because you get it.

Kids, we want to, we want to keep things as vague as possible,

because we didn't have to grow up with social media.

We're very fortunate.

And we don't think that there should have to be a public record

of absolutely everything in everybody's lives.

So we will.

Yeah, as the t-shirt says, protect trans kids.

Exactly.

Exactly.

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