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Beyond the Secret

Secret 050: My Dad's Secret Trans Life!

Beyond the Secret

Ace Fanning

Society & Culture

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Secret 050:  My Dad’s Secret Trans Life

What happens when you find out your parent has a secret?  A woman shares her experience of discovering her dad’s secret transgender life.  Delivered with compassion, today’s secret sharer hopes her story will advocate for the dignity of the LGBTQ community and honor her late father’s life and generous heart.

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0:00.0

Hey, friendly reminder, this podcast is not for kids, or people who have a stick up there.

0:05.6

Friday 5.58 PM.

0:09.8

I'm sleeping with my best friend's husband.

0:12.1

I think my uncle killed someone in his suicide. I am a sugar baby

0:15.0

I am a sugar baby addicted to adder all.

0:18.1

I think my sister is actually my uncle's kid.

0:21.2

My husband's son's mother. I was. us was a kid. What's your secret? Welcome to the

0:23.7

girl car whenever I was a

0:24.9

last girl. What's your secret?

0:29.7

Welcome back to another week of Beyond the Secret. My name is Ace Fanning and I want to just

0:41.1

quickly thank every single one of you who bought merch last week during my soft opening, which saying soft opening sounds like a very inappropriate term, but you know what I mean.

1:00.8

You guys are awesome and I really hope you know how much I appreciate the support that you show to the podcast.

1:09.0

It's a really cool feeling to know that there are people out there who actually care about something

1:17.6

that I'm doing and something that I love so much. so thank you for that.

1:27.0

Before you listen to today's story,

1:30.0

I want to give you one little forewarning and it actually gets explained in the

1:38.5

story but this woman was very worried how people would react to her use of certain pronouns and I just, like I said, it gets explained, so if it at all triggers something in you, maybe just hold on a second and listen, and I think it'll all

2:08.7

make sense to you the more that you hear. This week's secret, my dad's secret, trans life. Oh, Tell me about your family when you were growing up.

2:40.4

My family growing up there's actually sort of a divide there.

2:47.4

Up until I was nine, I would say that we had what you would kind of consider typical perfect all American family. You know, everybody got along. We had our house and our neighbors and our friends and you know, my parents were

3:08.7

super involved in the church we were going to. Everything was just like picture perfect normal, everything.

3:16.1

When I was nine, my dad was diagnosed with a chronic progressive but not immediately terminal illness and that super changed a lot of stuff for us.

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