This month Trevor sits down with, teacher, athlete, the first transgender person to complete the triple crown of hiking, and a badass who has just recently completed his ~2800 mile TRANSContinental Run across the US from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, FL, Cal "Starburst" Dobbs. Since this episode is sans Kyle, we breezed through the monthly check-in and got right into the main topic. We started out in familiar territory with how Cal was introduced to the outdoors, but quickly moved into how thru hiking didn't come easy to Cal, even though he was previously a collegiate athlete and how hiking the triple crown, although painful, molded them into the confident outdoorsperson he is today. Then Cal gives a quick primer on terminology surrounding gender identity and sexual orientation which flows very naturally into a chat about pronouns and the proper way interact with someone if you don't know their preferred pronouns. With this foundation laid, we talked about Cal's TRANSContinental Run, what it is about, why its important, and how the experience has been up to this point. Since Cal is probably the only guest we'll ever have that has been invited to the White House we talked about his experience there and through the lens of conversations had while there, what he thinks the future for trans people in the US will look like. We then finish the interview portion with Trevor's favorite questions and wrap everything up. Cal was an absolute delight to have on and to talk with about these very important issues. Hopefully people learn something and can use it to make the world a better place.

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