So your current relationship, you are, are you dating a straight man?

Yes.

And they have no idea that you went through a transition.

Welcome back to other people's lives. I'm Joe Sanigato. I'm Greg Dybeck.

For anyone out there that would like to be a guest on our show, don't hesitate to reach out to us. Our email is OPL Podcast at gmail.com.

Today we're speaking with a guest who reached out with the email subject line,

My boyfriend doesn't know I'm trans.

And we're going to be chatting with her about her decision to transition and why she feels

that she has to hide the fact that she's trans from her boyfriend, from her job, and other people

in her life.

So we've got the guest on the line.

And thank you so much for being on today. Hi, of course. Thank you for having me. Yeah, of course. So before the call, you actually

shared a ton of photos with us. You showed us pre-transition photos when you started taking hormones

to present day. So kind of gave us a picture of your journey. But can you just tell us what ultimately led you to your decision to transition?

Yeah, absolutely.

I'd say, well, so when I was born, you know, it was your classic story of, you know, I wanted to be a ballerina on Halloween.

Like I would stand in the girls line where they, you know, I thought I was a girl.

I, you know, I had parents that were very religious.

So the idea was always like, you know, that's not really an option.

So I guess I was always kind of bullied for being too feminine.

When I was in my early 20s, I went through some traumatic experiences that made me really want to like man up and

convince everyone that like I was, so, you know, my sexual orientation is heterosexual now, you know,

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