Playback: My Trans Journey (with update)

The Modern Mann

Matt Hill

Relationships, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What’s the reality of male-to-female transitioning on the NHS? Lexi Perry-Weston says the online resources she found didn’t relate to her experiences at all. In this interview with Olly, she explains how she’s been supported in her trans journey by her family, her workplace and the medical establishment - but also harassed by the public, fetishised by partners and discriminated against by businesses. From hormones to dating apps, vocal therapy to changing room etiquette, this is one Mann-fan’s experience of gender transition in 2020. CONTENT WARNING: interview contains references to rape, suicide, abuse, recounting of transphobic language and gender dysphoria. In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14. Hotlines in other countries can be found here. This episode first aired in September 2020, in the episode 'What To Expect When You're Transitioning'. Now remastered and with a brand-new , extended interview with Lexi in 2025, we discuss how the political climate has changed... as well as Lexi's own life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Oli Mann here with our monthly playback edition on the last Friday of every month.
0:05.8	We revisit one of our classic interviews from our extensive modern man archive, which we think
0:12.5	deserves your attention.
0:14.7	And this month it's about the reality of male to female transitioning on the NHS.
0:21.6	I meet Lexi, who found that her workplace and the medical establishment were supportive
0:27.6	of her transition, but she still found herself demeaned, fetishized and discriminated
0:32.6	against elsewhere. From hormones to dating apps, from vocal therapy to changing
0:39.3	room etiquette, this is one trans woman's experience of what to expect when you're
0:46.3	transitioning. And because the environment has changed since our interview in 2020,
0:53.3	there's a longer than usual update from Lexi at the end
0:56.3	about how she feels now in 2025. That's My Trans Journey, this month's Modern Man playback, and it all
1:05.2	starts next. Iron Hard has arrived on Disney Plus.
1:16.5	Rui, what is going all with you?
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1:26.1	I joined a crew of criminals, and now I'm about to get killed by miss the sixth episode of Vand. I joined a crew of criminals.
1:28.2	And now I'm about to get killed by a drenched man in a cake.
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1:34.1	You've bitten off a hell of a lot more than you can chew.
1:36.2	I can chew a lot.
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