Welcome to the Europeans, the world's favorite and perhaps only weekly podcast about Europe that refuses to talk about Brexit.

I am Dominic Kramer and Englishman in Amsterdam speaking to my good friend Katie Lee in Paris.

How's Paris treating you, Katie?

Bonjour. I'm feeling very sophisticated today because normally when we're recording this, I'm in my pyjamas.

But today, I'm on my way to my very first French wedding, so I'm all dressed up to the nines.

Oh, get you, I am in my pyjamas, I'm afraid.

It does not surprise me.

But yeah, you might remember I missed what was supposed to be my first ever French wedding

because of the Gilles-de-Jean protests and having to cover them.

So are they redoing it for you?

Yeah. No, no, it's a different

couple. So congratulations, Claire and Leandro. So that's what I'm doing today. What are you doing?

I've got a performance this evening. So yeah, I got up very early for recording this podcast,

despite the fact that I'm going to have to be singing very late tonight. So I'm very dedicated.

Which ones this again? I always lose track.

This is an opera called Girls of the Golden West about the Gold Rush in America.

Oh yeah, cool.

Just open this week.

Yeah, it's quite an interesting show, I think.

Before I go and sing as a racist minor on stage all evening, we've got some people to interview, haven't we? Yes, we do.

C.N. Lester, singer-songwriter, author, LGBT campaigner extraordinaire is joining us from London to talk about being trans in Europe and a bunch of other fascinating stuff, including how being

transgender works in other languages. And friend of the show, Mick Trey Horst, founder of the

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