Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jimmy Lidjamel. I hope this episode finds you well.

I have loved reading all of your messages. Thank you so much. I'm so happy that you enjoyed

Monroe's episode. She was just incredible, wasn't she? She's so inspiring and interesting and

honest and eloquent and that voice. Oh, I just love her and I'm so glad that so many of you do too

now. It also really warms my heart when I get so many messages from people telling me that they

are taking these episodes, especially Monroe's episode, back to their families to help their

families understand their experience if they too are transitioning or have transitioned or they're

sending them to their friends and family in order to just help them come on side to support,

trans and gender non-conforming people. And so I really thank Monroe for coming on to the

podcast and I thank you for sharing the word because that is how that is definitely a form of

activism and allyship just talking to your own so that the people who are marginalized don't have to.

If we take care of that for them, then we are doing our job as allies. This week we are having

a slight change of gear. I'm talking to a straight white male. He is an actor and an activist and

what I love so much about this episode is not just the man himself. I'm talking about Matt

McGory. You might know him from how to get away with Mordo or Orange is the new black. But

well I was so just thankful to him for was how much he opened up to me about his body image issues

and he's been considered a sex symbol for a large portion of his career and yet has struggled

for so long with eating disorders and now that he's bigger than he was before. He talks me through

how that has changed other people's attitudes towards him, how that's changed his own relationship

with his body, the history of body image obsession and how oppressive the system that created it is.

And I think that it's such an important issue because men don't feel like they are allowed to talk

about their body image issues. It's something that we always naturally associate more so with women

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