Episode 272: Jahni Leggett

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Tomorrow is Intersex Awareness Day 2023, and Lauren has a guest whom she's wanted to have on the podcast ever since she saw her do an Insta Live for Intersex Awareness Day 2022! Jahni Leggett has a number of intersecting identities (fat! Black! someone with ADHD!), but describes her intersex identity as the foundation or "fixed point" that informs all of the others. Jahni was raised as a boy by a single father who had very heteronormative, machismo-tinged expectations for her...but in Jahni's own words, "things started to get funky" around fourth or fifth grade, when she suddenly began to develop breasts. This is only the beginning of Jahni's story, which she tells with humor, charisma, and an *incredible* amount of grace and compassion for those involved along the way. From unexpectedly finding radical acceptance and empowerment through sex work to finally receiving a diagnosis that made everything fall into place, Jahni's story is a true celebration of intersex identity! Happy Intersex Awareness Day, y'all!

(TW: mentions of underage sex work, but nothing descriptive)

Follow Jahni on Instagram at @queen_jahni_, and watch the fantastic video she made with Jubilee at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvKbfegN1g0, where it has over ONE MILLION VIEWS! Also, if *you* are intersex and are looking for community, check out the L.A. LGBT Center's Club Intersex at https://lalgbtcenter.org/programs/community-support-groups/intersex-support/!

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome to Coming Out Pod. A very personal queer root shout out today.
0:13.5	Shout out to you if your queer root is your kindergarten or first grade teacher.
0:20.0	And a special shout out to my first grade teacher,
0:23.3	Denise Flanagan. Is it weird that I knew that her first name was Denise? Yeah, but that's what
0:29.5	happens when you have a crush. You learn everything about them. And now I also have to change my
0:34.3	security questions on all of my, you know, they all ask for first grade teacher.
0:41.2	Please nobody hack me. Denise Flanagan, I love you forever. All right. So, folks, if you're listening
0:48.2	to this episode on the day that it is released, that means that tomorrow is October 26, which is intersex awareness day.
0:57.6	So I'm very excited about our guests because way back when last, I think it was two intersex
1:05.8	awareness days ago.
1:06.7	I don't even think it was last intersex awareness day.
1:09.9	Time is a flat circle.
1:11.4	But Val Hill was the guest on the pod.
1:15.6	And then I watched Val Hill do an Insta Live with today's guest.
1:20.5	And I was like, I want to get this person on the podcast.
1:23.6	And now it is happening for Intersex Awareness Day, 2023.
1:27.7	So my guest today, thank you so much for being here, Johnny Leggett.
1:32.3	Hi, hi, thank you for welcoming me on.
1:34.5	I'm so excited to get to chat.
1:37.2	I'm thrilled.
1:38.1	Yes, after following you for a long time and seeing you in conversation with Val. This is so great. Johnny is an innovative
1:46.8	systems change maker. I really love the specificity of that. And then, yeah, is there anything
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