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Hey everybody it's Mary El Segara.

Today's episode is a love letter to any adult who wants to explore gender.

It comes to us from reporter Kyle Norris.

Kyle calls himself a guy with an untraditional beginning,

and he began exploring his identity when he was 40. He doesn't use the

word transition because he says it makes it feel like he started life as one person

and then morphed into a totally different human being.

But that's not what happened.

The way I do explain my experience

is by saying I embraced my authentic self

and began to make my body a home.

Whoever you are and whatever words you use to describe yourself,

you deserve to feel at home in your body

and to feel free from all the gender stereotypes

and rules out there about what clothes you're allowed to wear and what kinds

of jobs you can have, whether you should wear lipstick.

So on the show today, Kyle is going to share some tools to help you explore your gender and express it in a way that

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