Thomas
Kai McBride Kai McBride

Thomas

Thomas is a 61 year old trans man who lives in the Washington DC area with his partner and their two dogs. He began his gender transition in early 2000. While he has held many professional roles, he has been in the healthcare field for the last 15 years and has been an educator and an advocate for the trans and non-binary communities. He, like many previous STP interviewees, is happy to have found this podcast and is grateful for the opportunity to talk to Kai and Jackal about his experience.

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Rupert
Kai McBride Kai McBride

Rupert

Rupert is a Canadian trans man and activist of East Indian and Polish descent. In 1978, Raj started an organization for all gender divergent peoples called The Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Transsexuals. Fact. Along with its accompanying newsletter, The Gender Review, a factual journal.

His work has been recognized by several awards, as well as his inclusion in the National Portrait Collection of the Archives, Canada's LGBTQ2 plus archives.

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Adrian
Kai McBride Kai McBride

Adrian

Adrian is a trans man/ftm who transitioned on the East coast in the late 90s at 26 years of age. He moved to the pacific North West in the early 2000s and eventually settled back in his home State of California where he lives today. At the turn of the millennium, Adrian participated in a number of conferences, panels, focus groups and educational Q and A sessions relating to trans experience, health care, and trans rights primarily by happenstance.

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Trystan
Kai McBride Kai McBride

Trystan

Trystan Reese is a queer transgender man living in Portland, Oregon with his partner and their three kids. Two of his children are adopted; he gave birth to his youngest child in 2017. He wrote a book about his experience; it’s called How We Do Family.

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Gaines
Kai McBride Kai McBride

Gaines

Gaines Blasdel is a transgender man and a clinical medical student at the University of Michigan. His previous work experience was in LGBT community health, and he has held peer-leadership roles in gender affirming surgery patient community. Gaines centers this lived experience and work history in academic inquiry, and has published in surgical outcomes, ethics, medical education, and community-based participatory research practices.

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