Hey there, what's going on? Thank you for tuning in. This is the Shalene Show. I'm Shalene.

Today's episode is an episode devoted to the parents.

There's so many little intricacies, so many things that our society has labeled everything,

and it makes it very difficult for a person to just be who they are.

My son doesn't like to use the bathrooms out, and I've always thought it was just kind of a personal preference

because I tend to not think about it from his perspective. But being trans, he grew up going

into the girls' room, and now it should be the boys' room, but we haven't had surgery. He's on T,

but I wonder if there's a huge issue around which bathroom to go in and using public bathrooms.

So thank you for opening up this conversation. Thank you for attempting to educate.

I think people listen to you. They respect you. I hope that you don't get too much negativity from any of this.

You're really just trying to open people's eyes and help educate and help people love those people

in their lives, even when you don't understand. You don't have to understand.

While my transgender community is always welcome here, I also want you to know that this episode

might be triggering. It might be upsetting because you're going to hear from parents who are

some of them have just learned that their child is transgender. Some of them are trying to figure out

if that's in fact what's going on with their kid. Some of these parents are not yet comfortable with

the language. Some of them are very much struggling. If this is a real thing, if this is a choice,

if this is something that is a fat or a trend or a stage, a season, something their kids going to

grow out of, and that could be really upsetting, triggering, non-affirming, and I don't want you to

have to experience that. I don't. This is an episode that I've really created for understanding

empathy and love. This is a Shalene show. We don't talk about politics. I try not to.

And unfortunately, the issue of transgender and even sexuality oftentimes becomes political.

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