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Welcome folks to another episode of the Almost Awakened podcast.

I'm joined by a colleague.

I consider you a friend.

I hope I'm considered a friend by you.

But John Streeter, how are you doing today, John?

I'm doing all right.

I'm ready to get canceled.

So let's do this.

Yeah, this is going to be, I just want to say on the front end, folks, this is a very

sensitive topic that people have a lot of feelings about. And there's a lot of hurt experienced

in this space. There is a lot of people at risk for negative outcomes of being marginalized and

traumatized by society at large, at risk of harming themselves because of how they feel about

how they're accepted in society and how they're treated and how they perceive themselves.

We're going to talk about the transgender issue today. And I just, I'm going to make my effort to be extremely

sensitive to this topic. But it's a topic where there is a lot of heated feelings and

perspectives on both sides. You've got the religious right on one side who think it's this

God-given edict that transgender simply can't exist, and they come to this with a lot of

strong feelings that often can cause hurt. There are also folks who are adamant on the other

side of the aisle that there's only one

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