Good evening. How are you? Got a great show plan for you. We're going to be spending a lot of the

night talking about re-entering the dating world. That's right. People that have been single for a while,

maybe out of the game, married, who knows? But there's some things to think about. We're going to be

talking about tips, tricks, and perspectives to get us back in the game. It's not easy when we enter the dating world.

All of our stuff is on the line, right?

Our sense of desirability, our confidence, our body esteem,

different identities and roles that we play out in the world.

We're going to be talking about transgender rights.

Why do we need to keep talking about this?

Because some people still think that some humans aren't valid.

It's gross. It's definitely mental health

issues, but we're going to be talking about some of the science. But I wanted to open the show by

talking about a couple different things that popped up. Jenna Lyons, I wasn't familiar with her,

although I did wind up watching by default this documentary style show about her work in her life.

She's a, I guess she'd call her an artist.

She really engages in all different kinds of levels of art interior design fashion.

But what was really meaningful is her telling her story of being outed after age 40.

This is someone who was hetero identified and was pulled out of the closet.

And that's kind of the thing I wanted to just discuss quickly, which is, you know,

not everyone's ready to publicize or to step into some kind of sexual or gender role or

identity.

And if you're aware of someone, keep it yourself.

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