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We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson

"I Just Want My Kid To Be Happy" We’re Talking Transgender Awareness

We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson

FlightStory

Relationships, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

To mark Transgender Awareness Week, Paul sits down with Married At First Sight’s Ella Morgan and her dad Chris for an honest conversation about identity, acceptance and family. From navigating misunderstanding to rebuilding their relationship with love and empathy, they share what it means to live authentically and to stand by one another through change. This episode is about courage and connection - reminding us that everyone deserves to feel safe in who they are. We’re Talking: Transgender Awareness (00:00) Intro (00:44) How Paul and Ella Met (03:05) What Is 'Dead-Naming'? (04:56) Ella's Relationship History Before MAFS (07:08) Safety as a Trans Person (09:47) Ella's Dad Joins the Conversation (10:42) How Did Chris Find Out About Ella's True Identity? (14:34) Paul Shows Chris a Picture of Him and Ella from 2001 (16:57) How Chris Handled the Terminology After Learning Ella's True Identity (18:00) Public Reaction to Ella Presenting as a Woman (19:25) Ella's Experience with Gender Reassignment Surgery (20:48) Chris' Experience of Ella's Transition Surgery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:03.0

Not much to it is there?

0:06.0

Unless of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

0:10.0

Mmm, that is good.

0:13.0

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

0:16.0

Go all crisp in with walkers.

0:18.0

Delicious.

0:20.0

Hello and welcome to We're Talking.

0:22.7

This week, we're opening up a conversation about identity, acceptance and the power of being seen as we celebrate Transgender Awareness Week.

0:31.5

You'll hear from my good friend Ella Morgan and her dad, Chris, who share their story with honesty and heart, from learning to understand

0:38.9

one another to finding pride in living authentically.

0:42.3

These are the conversations that remind us that everyone deserves to feel safe in who they are.

0:48.0

This week, we're talking transgender awareness.

1:11.0

You are the first transgender woman that I believe that I have ever been close to.

1:19.3

And I remember when I found out about you coming on to Married at First sight, UK, because that's where we met, is I remember how almost nervous I was in ensuring that I was...

1:29.3

You didn't want to say the wrong thing? I get it. I get it. I get it all the time.

1:34.3

Didn't want to say the wrong thing. Didn't want to be offensive. No. But that's what I'm

1:38.3

trying to change, Paul, is that, and I get that because I look at the activist. Monroe, I look up to so much, Sean Faye, Charlie Craggs.

1:45.6

But the reason I call myself an advocate rather than an activist is because once you say you're an activist and you say one thing wrong, I feel like you're completely cancelled.

1:55.5

And as a community who everyone wants to cancel every day, look at what Donald Trump's doing, even today trying

2:01.8

to ban trans people in the military. I don't want to be one of these, no disrespect to them,

2:07.0

where everything I talk about, every conversation is trans. There are people that do that job

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