How to Become a Princess
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2015
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Just after the new year, Kaitlin and Mitra take a business trip to small town Ontario to meet Steffy. At six foot two inches, Stefonknee is the tallest six year old you will ever meet. Of course, she isn’t actually six. She is an age-player, meaning she likes to pretend to be a kid. She fluidly moves in and out of her six year old self and her adult self. In addition to her male and female identities.
Steffy is in a place of peace with her identities after a very traumatic falling out with her family, which for trans folks, is unfortunately, not uncommon. Here are the results of a 2011 survey the American trans community.
The National Center for Transgender Equality is launching another survey this summer. You can sign up to take the survey or help distribute it here.
In addition to our dynomite team, this story could not have been possible without the help of so many people. Production Assistance by Maria Dønvang. Editorial Advising by Julia Alsop, Brendan Baker, Kelsey Padgett, Tina Horn and Ignacio Rivera.
The biggest thanks to Mummy & Daddy and of course, Stefonknee Wolscht.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey heart listeners! I hope you're enjoying this show. We just have a quick request. |
| 0:06.0 | We are conducting a survey to hear from you, our listeners. |
| 0:10.0 | Just go to survey.prx.org slash heart to take the survey today. |
| 0:15.0 | Let us know what you think. We're so excited to hear from you. |
| 0:18.0 | That's survey.prx.org slash heart. Survey.prx.org slash heart. |
| 0:26.0 | It means a lot to us. Happy listening! |
| 0:29.0 | From PR-X's radio toopia. Welcome to the heart. |
| 0:39.0 | It was still the holidays. Just after a new year's, there wasn't any snow. |
| 0:46.0 | The heart was about to launch on radio toopia and we had money in the bank to make radio for the first time in our radio lives. |
| 0:54.0 | Me trip proposed that we go on what we call a business trip. |
| 1:00.0 | Business trip. Business trip. This is us. |
| 1:07.0 | And our rental car on our way to small town on Tario. |
| 1:12.0 | This is us getting Tim Horton's coffee. |
| 1:18.0 | Something that has become more important to me the longer I'm away from Canada. |
| 1:23.0 | We don't need to do that. We don't need to do that. |
| 1:28.0 | This is mecha driving on the highway in a snow storm. |
| 1:32.0 | I find that I'm a good driver, a good pressure. |
| 1:37.0 | She's never driven with snow on the road before. |
| 1:40.0 | I think the best advice I ever get my kids is don't let anyone else rush you. |
| 1:43.0 | You drive at the speed you're comfortable at. There, somebody crash. |
| 1:47.0 | That's why they slow down. |
| 1:48.0 | And this is Steffi telling mecha everything she needs to know about driving the snow storm. |
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