Transplaining

This is a speech Daphne gave at the Portland Community Council for Trans Day of Visibility. As always, Welcome to the Family If you like what we do and want to support us, you can do so at buymeacoffee.com/TransplainingPodcast

Today we interview MK{it/its}, is a transmasculine lesbian poet, theater artist, movement journalist, & BashBack aligned anarchist. We explore the expression of the pronouns it/its. We discuss its alignments with being anarchist and how the trans community fits into that political philosophy. The conversation was interesting and we enjoyed MK's ability to orate their beliefs and associations....

Today we interview Maybe - trans icon, activist, educator, actress and producer. We have a engaging conversation being trans in the acting and media world, being comfortable as themselves how they are, learning how to navigate relationships and creating the look that you feel inside. This was a fun conversation as well as extremely insightful. We highly recommend sitting this interview through. As...

Today we interview Maybe - trans icon, activist, educator, actress and producer. We have a engaging conversation being trans in the acting and media world, being comfortable as themselves how they are, learning how to navigate relationships and creating the look that you feel inside. This was a fun conversation as well as extremely insightful. We highly recommend sitting this interview through. As...

In this episode we sit down with Corra, a member of the military that has done incredible work to support other trans individuals within the armed forces - and was sidelined due to the new policies concerning trans individuals. We do add a disclaimer that any views or opinions expressed by Corra are her own and not the views or opinions of the armed forces. We discuss her history in the military,...

In this episode, we sit down with our friend Pastor Heather and continue to dig down into the gritty to find out the answer to one of the most contested questions about the bible in todays political atmosphere, "Is the bible against trans individuals?" We open up the book and go verse by verse through the most used passages and then some to see what the bible says. We explore what the different ve...

In this episode, we sit down with our friend Pastor Heather and we dig down into the gritty to find out the answer to one of the most contested questions about the bible in todays political atmosphere, "Is the bible against trans individuals?" We open up the book and go verse by verse through the most used passages and then some to see what the bible says. We explore what the different versions ar...

Send us Fan Mail Today we interview Shawn, host of the Sullivan's Unheard Voices Podcast. We discuss how he grew to love peoples stories and built it to the point that he has a quickly growing podcast and just has a passion to sit down and hear yours too. We enjoyed making this podcast as you can just feel the authenticity of Shawn as he speaks and we had a few laughs too.  If you like what we are...

Send us Fan Mail Today we interviewed Ashley and we discussed the fun topic of communism and how trans people fit into the cultural and economic ideology. This was a fun episode for us and we enjoyed the engaging conversation about what the future could look like. We hope you enjoy the episode and as always, Welcome to the Family. If you enjoy what we are doing and would like to support us, you ca...

Send us Fan Mail Today we interviewed Ashley and we discussed the fun topic of communism and how trans people fit into the cultural and economic ideology. This was a fun episode for us and we enjoyed the engaging conversation about what the future could look like. We hope you enjoy the episode and as always, Welcome to the Family. If you enjoy what we are doing and would like to support us, you ca...

Send us Fan Mail We realize this is super late but we felt it was still worth uploading. It is just Bear and I in the booth today and we discuss different holiday traditions and ways to cope with struggles. Bear gets to really come out of his cave for this one. It is a 2 part episode partly because of my ADHD but also we were just having so much fun in the conversation that it just went. We hope y...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of our Holiday Episode.  We realize this is super late but we felt it was still worth uploading. It is just Bear and I in the booth today and we discuss different holiday traditions and ways to cope with struggles. Bear gets to really come out of his cave for this one. It is a 2 part episode partly because of my ADHD but also we were just having so much fun in the conversat...

Send us Fan Mail This is a short update on what's been going on with Transplaining and what we have coming up. Enjoy and stay tuned for more updates. If you like the work we are doing and would like to help support us, you can do so at buymeacoffee.com/transplainingpodcast And as always, Welcome to the Family

Send us Fan Mail Today, we had a really fun episode as we interview Jenna, a local comedian that has put together comedy shows. We discuss some the struggles that both cis-women and trans people have in common and ways to cope with those struggles. It was personally fun for us, but also had a great message along with it and we highly recommend you go watch some of her shows.  And as always Welcome...

Send us Fan Mail Today we interview Monica Helms, Creator of the Trans Flag!!! We discuss her life growing up, her career in the navy, coming out and how it affected her relationship with her partner, the designing the flag and more. This was a conversation that we were excited to have and are so excited to share it with you. We hope you enjoy this as much as we did.  As always, Welcome to the Fam...

Send us Fan Mail Today we interview Bear. Yes, you read that right. We interview Bear, but not our Bear. This is Bear from Youtube's  @barethebear1743 . We discuss his journey discovering himself, transitioning and joining the military. We talked about the challenges he has faced as a trans man in the military and discuss if he regrets his decision to join. This interview was engaging, fun, heartf...

Send us Fan Mail Today we continue our interview with Bear. Yes, you read that right. We interview Bear, but not our Bear. This is Bear from  @barethebear1743 . We discuss his journey discovering himself, transitioning and joining the military. We talked about the challenges he has faced as a trans man in the military and discuss if he regrets his decision to join. This interview was engaging, fun...

Send us Fan Mail This is an update on the episodes ending in the year 2025 and leading into 2026. We had a short sabatical so to speak and are back at it again. Stay tuned for more episodes. They are coming!!! As always, Welcome to the Family.

Send us Fan Mail Today we interview Brynn Tannehill, pilot, veteran, author, and royal badass. She shares her experience growing up, wanting to be a pilot, joining the navy, working her ass off and even go to where she helped write executive orders for President Biden. In part 2 we go past that part of the story and continue the adventure. We enjoyed this conversation very much and hope you do too...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we conclude our interview with Brynn Tannehill - pilot, veteran, author, and royal badass. In part 1, we discussed her experience growing up and coming out, serving in the navy and so on.  In part 2, we continue that discussion with going through the process of reentering the armed forces, having that goal and dream yanked away from the latest political policies, h...

Send us Fan Mail Today we interviewed Madison, a transfemme individual who shares her journey in coming out as trans, managing family relationships, and working through the medical system to get the right care. This episode really gets into the raw emotions of what it looks like when care and validation are not met. We enjoyed this episode and hope you will too. And as always, Welcome to the Famil...

Send us Fan Mail Today we interview Mayor Elect Erica Deuso, the first openly trans person elected to the Office of Mayor in the State of Pennsylvania. We had a great conversation about what being trans in politics looks like and how people are so much more than being trans. We discuss how she was elected to do a job and that is what she is focused on and believes that is what others should focus...

Send us Fan Mail This episode, the tides are changed. This is an episode that was recorded for another podcast - Sullivan's Unheard Voices, and this time, they are interviewing Daphne. The episode was recorded on Oct 17th and was released on their podcast 2 weeks ago. We have been given permission to have it as a bonus episode on our podcast! We had a lot of fun in this conversation. Two neurodive...

Send us Fan Mail Today we interview Tai Ericson, a sculptural artist that is doing work currently making portraits of trans people that were murdered. This episode was moving emotionally and really showed a unique way to honor the trans community. We recorded this episode on Trans Day of Remembrance. We did this episode to honor those in the trans community that have passed. We hope that by listen...

Send us Fan Mail As we continue our lead up to the holidays, we have a great discussion with Serena, a transwoman and local elected official in her community. We discuss how her transition led to her being more comfortable in putting herself out, how the process of running for office helped her and helped to build community and how important it is to get involved in your community. We also discuss...