Elliot is a 45 year old trans person living in northern California. Elliot, like many of the guests on the STP, once lived in the Pacific Northwest. He rides his bike a lot and lives with a cat named Agnes. Take a listen. Elliot is a charmer, well spoken and tender hearted.

Lorne retired from the fire department after 28 years of service. Lorne was also a professional athlete for 17 years. Lorne started to transition in 2010, had top surgery in June 2014, started T in March 2015, and had first stage bottom surgery in October 2017. His last stage or lower surgery was in March 2020. Lorne has lived a life of service and is a big brother, and friend to many trans guys.

Willy Wilkinson, MPH is an award-winning writer, public health consultant, and cultural competency trainer who has been advocating for marginalized populations since the early days of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning book Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency, which illuminates trans experience from a Chinese American and mixed heritage perspective, and transforms the memoir genre into a cultural competency tool. Over the past three decades, Willy has provided LGBTQ and trans-specific training for hundreds of community health organizations, educational institutions, and businesses.

Masen Davis is a human rights activist who has spent the last 30 years advocating for LGBT rights. He came out as a transman in the mid-1990s and soon became active in the Southern California trans community, where he helped organize the 1999 Forward Motion conference for FTMs in Burbank and launch FTM Alliance of Los Angeles (now Gender Justice LA) with many of the conference organizers. Since then, he’s served in leadership roles at the Transgender Law Center; GATE (Global Action for Trans Equality); the International Trans Fund; Freedom for All Americans; and Transgender Europe.

Stephan Pennington is a critical musicologist focusing on popular music and cultural studies at Tufts University. A pioneering scholar on Transgender Studies in Music, he has been sought out for a number of public intellectual projects, including the documentary No Ordinary Man about trans masculine jazz musician Billy Tipton. He has also dedicated service to the trans community, being the keynote speaker for LA Trans Unity, speaking on trans topics on national television, and performing music at Cristopher Street West and Trans/Giving, a musical series in Los Angeles. He is currently working on two book projects, one on transgender vocality and the second on the persistence of enlightenment white supremacy in current musicological culture. He is also a Twitch Streamer who streams Table Top Role-Playing Games like Dungeons & Dragons and cultivates a welcoming community.