Our Lady J: The Birth of Transgender Identities in Pop Culture

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Our Lady J talks about being a writer for Transparent, the power and responsibility that storytellers have, and shares the “beautiful and excruciating” moments from growing up in a predominantly Amish community. She talks about playing piano for people like Sia, as well as the discrimination she faced in the music industry after she transitioned. Our Lady J also describes the ongoing process of learning to love herself, saying she’s no longer interested in lying about her age. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1 You can recommend a guest or let us know what you think about the show on Twitter or by emailing [email protected] More information: www.LGBTQpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back. I'm Jeffrey Masters, and this is LGBTQ and A, where we get to know different members of the LGBTQ community.
0:07.0	Today, I'm talking to Our Lady J. Our Lady J is a writer on Transparent. She's also a very accomplished musician. Stay tuned. Hi.
0:26.9	Hey there.
0:27.5	Welcome to the show.
0:28.5	Thank you so much for having me.
0:29.7	Yes, I'm excited to talk.
0:31.5	I've admired your episodes on Transparent for a while.
0:34.3	Oh, thank you.
0:35.1	Yeah.
0:35.7	Speaking of Transparent, so you are the first trans person
0:38.4	to write for the show. Yes. I know that it is hard to say because we've not always kept
0:43.6	track, but does that make you one of the first trans people to write for TV in general?
0:51.2	Well, out transness, closeted transness, stealth transness, you know, it's really hard to measure.
0:58.0	And I really, I don't know, I don't like the competitive nature of like first, but technically,
1:05.2	I'm the first trans person to write on a show about trans identities.
1:10.6	Okay. I think that's a big win, though,
1:13.4	you know, for us. For the community, yeah, yeah, that it's actually happening. I mean, the fact that
1:18.6	it took so long to happen, I don't know if that's a win, but I'm glad it's happening finally.
1:24.2	Yeah, I just think that we, it's kind of an amazing time to be alive because we
1:29.8	are having all these firsts and they are small achievements, but they, like I said, like they're
1:35.0	big wins. But it also feels like that's kind of like, oh wow, we're only here now. Exactly. Yeah.
1:42.1	I mean, I'm, I will be 39 in like a week and a half and finally stopped lying about my age.
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