Stealth: Transmasculine Podcast

Oct 27 2024 69 ep. 85

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Stealth is a podcast that captures the stories of transmasculine elders who transitioned before 2000. Transitioning, for the purposes of our podcast, includes all forms of social and medical transitioning.

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Max

Max is a 45-year-old queer man, dad and avid fossil hunter, who began transitioning in 1999. He has lived all over, but his longest stint thus far has been in Philadelphia, where he works as a nurse practitioner in an outpatient infectious diseases practice and specializes in caring for people living with HIV. He is passionate about too many things, some of which include harm reduc

Patrick

Patrick is a 50-ish year old, black, gay trans man. He started his medical transition in 2012 and started socially transitioning on a part-time basis around 2007 or 2008. He discovered language that allowed him to understand himself around 2005., but struggled to take the steps to begin the process for a while. Patrick is a funeral director. “So I guess you'd say that is my "exp

Jonathan

Jonathan, who grew up in London, England (as well as Saudi Arabia), transitioned when he was 16 years old in the late 2000s. As a teen, he was blessed with a supportive mum who was able to work with him to afford him gender affirming hormone treatment, and he has lived as male for most of his teens and all of his adulthood. Subject of Channel 4 documentary 'The Boy Who was Born A G

Lucas

Lucas Silveira, frontman of The Cliks, now a solo artist, made history as the first openly transgender man signed by a major label with Warner Music, Tommy Boy/Silver Label in 2006. He's graced global stages alongside Cyndi Lauper, The B-52’s, Debbie Harry, Tegan and Sara, The Cult, and The New York Dolls. As co-host of Vice's Shine True in 2021, he expanded into TV. http://www.t

Shawn Aaron

Shawn is a black queer trans man who uses his lived experiences to inform his intersectional approach to addressing systemic issues related to access to non biased healthcare and gender affirming surgery. Shawn is a dogged advocate, talented artist, a gifted storyteller whose style is warm and engaging. Shawn has nine years of experience as the executive director of Demboys Inc. De

Lenny

Lenny Zenith is a transgender singer/songwriter and has completed his first memoir. It was edited by Kelly Caldwell (Gotham Writers Group) and Lambda Literary Award winner, Donna Minkowitz (Furious Romance, Growing up Golem).He has fronted several bands in New Orleans and New York, and has opened for international touring acts U2, Iggy Pop, Gang of Four, Ellen Degeneres, and The Re

Jai

Jai is a 47-year-old, mixed race (Italian/Sri Lankan) man with a transgender experience. Jai medically transitioned back in 2007, had his top surgery soon after and completed bottom surgery a little over 10 years ago. Jai is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has been in the social services field for 25 years and as a Social Worker for 16 years.

Alexander

Alexander is a 41-year old Canadian transman and father from Toronto, where he currently lives with his wife, their two young children, and rescue dog. He began his transition as a teenager in the year 2000. An academic turned public servant, he holds a PhD in English and continues to contribute to Trans Studies. In his free time, he enjoys spending time outdoors hiking, canoeing

Jesse

Great Smoky National Park Wiki Page Jesse was born and raised - and still lives - in the Virginia hills known as the Appalachians. The when and where of Jesse's trans coming of age story, was not an environment that supported gender fluidity or genderqueerness. Most of the Appalachian people still see thi

Sly

Sly Sarkisova (he/they) is a Toronto based queer and nonbinary trans activist, writer and psychotherapist. He is an early trailblazer in nonbinary trans health advocacy, and is currently working on his PhD. Sly spent his 20s in the early 2000s creating language and legitimacy for nonbinary identification in Vancouver and Toronto, when no one recognized our identities. In 2009-2