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Beyond the Secret

Secret 014: I Have a Transgender Child!

Beyond the Secret

Ace Fanning

Society & Culture

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Secret 014:  I Have a Transgender Child

A mother shares her journey of supporting her nine year old transgender child and helping her to navigate the world as her true self.  In a heartfelt conversation, she and Ace talk about how she and her family have addressed school dynamics and shared their journey with friends and family.

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0:00.0

Hey, this podcast is not kid-friendly.

0:05.0

So if you don't want your kid to hear about sex and the word shit and all that other stuff,

0:10.0

you should probably get them out of the room right now.

0:16.0

Everybody has a secret. This is Beyond the Secret, an anonymous podcast where I uncover the truth

0:20.0

behind people's deepest secrets. My name is Ace Fanning and I want to know

0:27.3

what's your secret.

0:31.8

Welcome back to another week of Beyond the Secret. This week's secret is one I'm

0:40.0

really excited about. It's not the juicest secret that I've ever had on the

0:45.4

show or anything like that. I just think it's something that I know there's people

0:51.4

in my life who I want them to open up and hear this story and I know

0:57.9

there's tons of people who I don't know who need to hear this story and kind of hear a perspective on it. And this

1:05.8

week's secret was not submitted in the normal way. It was actually a while back. My wife and I were in Hawaii and I like was like, oh we're going to have to kill a bunch of time at the airport.

1:20.0

So I put on my Instagram this thing and it was like what's an

1:24.1

opinion you have that you think most people would disagree with and you know

1:28.8

there were a ton of things a ton of opinion submitted but one of the things submitted was from this woman a a woman who I have known and who I have worked with before and it was an opinion about you know I I don't remember

1:48.1

exactly word for word but it was an opinion and like I believe that people should be able to use the bathroom of the

1:56.0

gender that they identify with and I was like yeah I agree but I was like I kind of paused and I was like I don't want to

2:06.8

Put this up

2:08.7

Partially because I don't know if I'm ready to see

2:18.9

Who in my life, you know, disagrees with that. And also I didn't want...

2:21.4

I just, I don't know.

2:22.4

I kind of wanted to protect her.

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