The world of addiction, and specifically that world of using something that can land you in prison creates a world where you take risks and create enemies with the very people that are supposed to be, as the motto reads, to serve and protect.

The addiction with illicit drugs, and again, as I have stated before, is currently being identified as a disease according to the American medical association and American psychiatric association.

This is the only disease that I have been able to find that requires you to have committed a crime to acquire this disease.

What happens in that world of being dependent on something that is illegal itself causes many to do things that I will admit are true crimes such as robbery, burglaries, and mayhem to support a habit that continues to get very expensive.

A person who I would have identified as an enemy while on drugs, and of course I know longer view this way, is an advocate for those battling addiction.

We are now on the same team.

As we all know, addiction isn’t prejudice, doesn’t discriminate, or only occur among certain professions.

Sure, if you are in sales and your product for sale is heroin, yeah, a good chance that profession can land you in addiction easier than some.

have had a wonderful opportunity to interview and meet with different people in different professions, including a judge. Well, the judge never had a drug problem but became a good friend of mine during my time in recovery.

I will say that the profession of my guest today doesn’t surprise me, as certain areas of law enforcement will need to gain trust of dealers and probably need to test the drugs themselves which can lead to addiction.

I have heard many stories about federal agents with the DEA who got hooked on drugs. The irony in this is that they fall into the realm of using drugs in their normal scope of practice giving them a great excuse to use drugs.

I could have seen myself, if I hadn’t acquired all those felonies, joining a group like that just for the immunity.

Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity or expression (masculine, feminine, other) is different from their sex (male, female) at birth. 

Gender identity refers to one’s internal understanding of one’s own gender, or the gender with which a person identifies. Gender expression is a term used to describe people’s outward presentation of their gender.

Gender identity and sexual orientation are different facets of identity. Everyone has a gender identity and a sexual orientation, but a person’s gender does not determine a person’s sexual orientation.

Transgender people may identify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or none of the above.

Are You confused yet. It can be confusing but the bigger question I propose is how judgmental are you or why does it really matter or how does this affect your life?

Can a biological male be a lesbian? If this question seems crazy, then your probably not that different than many people out there and probably because you’re unaware of this paradigm.

This paradigm says that a transwoman can count as a lesbian; and that many do.

Though precise statistics are unavailable, many transwomen are exclusively female-attracted. Prior to transition, they’re what we would ordinarily call heterosexual, or straight: males attracted to the opposite biological sex.

When transition occurs, this pattern of attraction usually persists. But, for some, it’s unacceptable to now think of themselves as straight – for this carries with it a lingering connotation of manhood, now rejected. Hence some transwomen self-identify as lesbians.

Stay tuned for my guest today, Sophie White who is an actress, producer, director, etc., and fits this exact category.

Lets get high today. No better time than now. My name is Eric McCoy and welcome back to high while clean.

What people don’t understand causes hatred for reasons that I can’t personally understand because, to me, this is what makes life exciting.

Our journey can be confusing at times and the sad part, is that much of this hatred that others have for those they don’t understand are just as confusing for those who are dealing with it.

What I find fascinating, and this will make a little more sense once I introduce my guest today; are those individuals filled with judgement and condemnation that say things are choices meaning that they at some point in time struggled with the very thing and made a choice to go the other direction otherwise they wouldn’t be able to say that.

I am very excited to introduce my guest today and who has dealt with the very same dilemma that my son has struggled with.

My son, as I have mentioned numerous times on my show was born a female and transitioned to a male and I also have my dear friend Lona Currie, the transgender mentor and also my co-host of “walk a mile in my shoes.”

Sophie White

Sophie white has been in the entertainment industry for many years in lots of different roles and it wasn’t long ago that she officially came out as a transgender.

She is that picture of courage in living in a world that is becoming more excepting but still not to where we would like things to be.