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Other People’s Lives

My Kids Don't Know I Was Born A Woman

Other People’s Lives

Santagato Studios

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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0:00.0

So your child now is not aware that you're trans?

0:03.7

No.

0:04.8

Do you have plans on ever telling them?

0:07.9

That's, no.

0:09.6

As of right now, we don't have any plans on telling her.

0:24.3

Welcome back to other people's lives. I'm Joe Sanagata. I'm Greg Dyback. For anyone out there that would like to be a guest on our show, don't hesitate to reach out to us.

0:28.0

Our email is OPL podcast at gmail.com.

0:31.2

Today we are speaking to a trans man who is a husband, a father, a worker, and nobody in his life knows that he is trans. So he

0:43.7

lives the stealth lifestyle as a trans person, and we're going to learn all about that. So we've got

0:49.1

the guest on, and thank you so much for being on today. Thank you for having me. I appreciate

0:53.7

you responding to my email.

0:55.6

Yeah, of course. And we had a conversation a while ago. It was with a trans woman who kind of

1:02.5

explain this stealth lifestyle to us. And that was one of the first times that we heard about

1:07.0

a trans person just choosing to kind of make sure that nobody knows that they have transitioned.

1:14.5

So we are interested to dive into this topic and kind of understand how you live your life.

1:19.6

But I think to get started, can you just tell us about, I guess, just the origin of wanting to transition and the steps that you took to get there.

1:30.3

Yeah. So going way back, which I know this is going to be mind blowing to a lot of people, but when I, it started when I was four, right?

1:43.3

But my parents, very good parents didn't let me

1:46.4

didn't let the doctors or anything give into it they didn't give into it so fast forward to probably

1:55.2

i was 18 and um i just woke up one day right and I it really just I woke up somehow did some research

2:07.2

online and then reached out to a doctor that's that's basically how I first started the transition

2:17.2

so was that the deal with your parents they were kind of supportive but That's basically how I first started the transition.

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