Exploring your gender and transitioning your gender is not a burden to others.

And it's not too much to ask for someone to support you in that.

To use your name, to use your pronouns, to respect your identity.

Those are just basic human decency things.

It's not a huge burden on somebody, even if it is new. Those are just basic human decency things.

It's not a huge burden on somebody, even if it is new.

Even if they might have feelings about it, that does not mean that your identity is a burden because it caused someone else discomfort.

Thank you. else discomfort. Let me let it out. Let it out.

Hi, welcome to Let It Out.

This week on the podcast, Ray McDaniel, Ray is a non-binary gender and sex therapist who works with transgender and non-binary questioning folks who might be feeling lost when transitioning their gender identity. Ray is incredible. I love to this conversation so much. They're also the founder of a gender and sex therapy practice in Chicago, which we speak

about in this and how much it's grown recently, which is really exciting. They also provide

medical and mental health professionals wishing to uplevel their knowledge in trans-affirming care,

and they have a master's in education and community counseling.

And they're just incredible.

I really enjoyed not only having this conversation with Ray and getting to know them more,

but also in preparation for the conversation,

listening to them on other podcasts

and reading their work was really a joy.

I just really like them.

This conversation covers communication

and learning to communicate directly in sex

and how doing so impacts communication everywhere.

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