Hi fam, welcome to the trans-lash podcast, a show about news and culture from a trans

perspective. I'm your host, Amara Jones. I am so excited to celebrate trans love for our special

Valentine's Day episode, cue music from harps and images of chocolate and Cupid.

But before we talk about love, I wanted to remind you to please shout us out on social media or leave us a review.

If you do, your message of love could easily end up in this program like that of Tracy Wallen, who left us a message

on Apple podcast saying, quote, I am not transgender, but I am a member of the LGBTQ plus community.

I happened upon your podcast and I am in, wait for it, love.

It is so important to hear the perspective from the trans community and we all need to

listen. Keep up the amazing work and you have a brand new fan.

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Thank you so much, Tracy.

And maybe you'll be the Tracy of next time.

So leave us a review or shout us out on social media.

All right. On to the heart of our show. Too often we're told that we're not beautiful, that we're unlovable, that we're less than,

but that's not true. Trans love is sacred. We are incredibly worthy and uniquely beautiful. And that's why our entire program today is going to be focused on trans joy and trans love.

First, we're going to hear from the one and only precious Brady Davis who appeared with her husband Miles and TLC's special, My Pregnant Husband.

Part of that came to the relationship of like, I'm unlovable, that I carry like all of this

baggage and Miles was just saying, no, like, I love all of you. All of that comes with you,

and I'm here to work through that. And then we're going to talk about finding love online with Max Slack from the social

and dating app, her.

If you're going to be trans-inclusive, particularly you're on any platform, but particularly

on a dating app, you need to be explicit to the point that it is incredibly obvious to

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