Changes Focus: Trans Lives - Chelsea Manning, Kae Tempest, Travis Alabanza, Shon Faye

Changes with Annie Macmanus

Annie Macmanus

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This weeks episode of Changes Focus is a celebration of Trans lives.

On this podcast we try to build empathy and connectedness through sharing people’s personal stories and the only way we can understand what it’s like to be a Trans person is by actually listening to those people who are living it every day.

In this episode we’ve got Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower, who discusses her journey of transitioning while in military prison, the incredible poet and musician Kae Tempest shares their thoughts on going through puberty as a Trans teenager and the importance of being your authentic self. Performance artist and author of ‘None of The Above’ Travis Alabanza shares their definition of transness and talks about how they got to the point of feeling able to come out as gender non conforming. And finally, activist and author of ‘The Transgender Issue’ Shon Faye shares her experiences of transphobia and her thoughts on why people are so scared of change when it comes to gender.

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	in this episode we are celebrating trans lives.
0:08.0	And in this episode we are celebrating trans lives.
0:12.0	We're going to be including parts of some of our
0:14.8	favorite changes conversations on what it's like to be a trans person today.
0:19.7	On this podcast we try to build empathy and connection through sharing people's
0:24.6	personal stories and the only way we can understand what is like to be a trans
0:28.4	person is by listening closely to trans people so in episode, we're going to revisit conversations with four extraordinary individuals,
0:37.0	the incredibly talented poets and musician Kay Tempus,
0:41.0	one of my favorite ever episodes of changes, we'll be revisiting that.
0:44.4	The whistleblower who took on the US government, Chelsea Manning,
0:48.8	the amazing activist and author of the transgender issue Sean Fay and the performer and writer
0:55.5	Travis alabanza. So let's kick off with Travis. Award-winning writer, performance
1:00.9	artists and theater maker Travis alabanza identifies as a gender, non-conforming
1:05.4	trans person.
1:06.8	I was so grateful for their openness throughout this conversation and for them allowing me to
1:11.6	ask questions like the one I opened with.
1:14.4	Please could Travis explain their definition of what it means to be trans?
1:19.2	So I think that to understand trans you've got to also understand cis gender which is the opposite of tracks and you know at birth everyone whether you're trans or not is assigned something without their consent,
1:37.0	either male or female, based on looking at your external organs,
1:42.0	or sometimes with intersex people deciding, and then trans just means that in whatever shape or form, you don't feel like you are that thing that you are assigned at birth.
1:54.7	And cis gender just means that you are comfortable with what you are assigned of
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