The Transgender Show

Kalie is an ordained pastor in Georgia and an advocate for LGBTQIA+ inclusion in religious institutions. She has a passion for building community and supporting and protecting the rights of individuals. She was dismissed from her seminary after being outed as trans. She joined the lawsuit challenging religious exemptions in Title IX in order to stop religious institutions from discriminating against LGBTQIA+ students while receiving federal funding.

 Corey is a transgender man who began his gender journey 21 years ago at the age of 25. Since then, he's lived mostly in stealth and integrated into male culture undetected. He worked as an automotive mechanic for 10 years before beginning his spiritual journey on the Appalachian Trail in 2011. That adventure taught him a lot about true strength and being comfortable in uncomfortable situations. 

He's been happily married for 10 years with 2 beautiful daughters who accept him as their father. Corey believes life is what you make of it and has made it his life's work to evolve and manifest himself into a superhuman. 

Recorded LIVE on The Transverse 
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Tuesday 02/22/22 

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Van is a queer, non-binary, socialized as female, autistic, trans person dedicated to social justice. They are dually licensed as a Marriage & Family Therapist and a Professional Clinical Counselor. Van is passionate about holding space for all intersections of one’s identity(ies). Van aims to use a trauma informed lens to help folks learn ways to help support themselves in the best way possible. Van is author of the interactive book Exploring My Identities and produced a Documentary called Do Something: Trans & Non Binary Identities which we’ll be screening here on The Transverse on Thursday night. Their next project is hosting an international conference called Do Something: Identity(ies) (2022).

Justice Renée, born trans-female, was raised in a Fundamentalist Evangelical Home.  Her father was a leader in the Young Earth/Creation Science movement in Utah and surrounding states through the 1980s and 90s.  She was taught through shame to hate her trans identity.  In her preteens, Justice dedicated her life to Jesus and began ministry work with her church, AWANA, and CEF and gave her first evangelistic message at 13.  She went on to get Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies with a Missions Emphasis from Frontier School of the Bible, was Youth Pastor in Nebraska, worked at Christian Camps, and a CrossWorld Missions Candidate preparing for missions in Thailand.  

In 2009, responding to the Housing Crisis, she founded “Tears of the Patriots”, a Tea Party Group connected with Libertarian and Christian Nationalism.  Due to a myriad of reasons, Justice Renée re-examined her belief system over a period of 7 years ending with leaving the church.  

She opened to her partner about her gender issues in 2019 and transitioned in 2020.Currently, Justice Renée works as a Systems Engineer at Target, helps amplify diverse voices through Secular North Productions, and raises her two kids and her partner. She shares her story with others to give hope and move communities forward through the “Din of Conversation”.  She found freedom in acceptance and a path forward from the hate. 

Stepping out from behind the camera, Justice Renée has opened up in a more public way to build connections with others and amplify the "Din of Conversation". 

Currently, Justice Renée works as a Systems Engineer at Target, helps amplify diverse voices through Secular North Productions, and raises her two kids and her partner. She shares her story with others to give hope and move communities forward through the “Din of Conversation”.  She found freedom in acceptance and a path forward from the hate. 

A New Jersey native, Shannon is a graduate of Rutgers University, with a concentration in Historic Preservation and Political Science. She is a digital creator with content focusing on gender, race, and social justice. With her wife Rachel she co-hosts the podcast 'Our Life In Transition'. You can also find her every week boosting transition posts from other trans creators on Instagram, all the while proclaiming, "It's Tuesday!"

Laser Malena-Webber is musician and writer — known for their nerdy folk-pop band the Doubleclicks. The Doubleclicks sing about dinosaurs, cats, and queer feelngs. Laser's latest project is the musical Teaching a Robot to Love, which just debuted on the Billboard Cast Albums chart. Teaching A Robot To Love is a story about change, acceptance, queer experiences, and also robots.

This week on The Transgender Show, Emily welcomes Mallery Jenna Robinson, an AfraCarribean Transwoman and transgender and HIV healthcare advocate in Los Angeles. 

From 2019-2021 Mallery worked with The LGBTQ Center Long Beach in their Transgender Health Department, responsible for case management of clients, linkage to care, PrEP and PEP services, STI screening and HIV testing. While there she implemented several successful essential programs such as: Rack and Roll (a clothes closet), Snack Shack (a food pantry), TRANSport ( an essential items delivery service), and events such as: Come OUT and Pose, ValenTrans Day, and a The T-Report Red Desk Diaries a panel for National Transgender HIV Testing Day. 

She has also presented several Transgender Empathy Trainings (TET Talks) presentations to Sony PlayStation, and Long Beach Vocal Rehab to list a few. Mallery has also spoken publicly for The Long Beach Transgender Day of Remembrance at Harvey Milk Park in November 2019 and for ALL Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and co-hosted several LGBTQ virtual award shows such as Unique Woman’s Coalition Our Honors Award. On Transgender Day of Visibility.

Daniel is a 37-year old working-class transgender veteran running a nonpartisan grassroots congressional campaign for California’s 38th Assembly District. He was born and raised in Maryland by a hard-working single mom. Daniel started working at 14, came out as a lesbian at 16, and graduated from high school the year after 9/11. Unable to break the poverty ceiling, Daniel joined the United States Navy at 24 and served four years supporting the troops in the Middle East. After separating from the military, Daniel married the love of his life and came out as transgender. He utilized his G.I. Bill to attend college and became the first generation in his family to earn a degree. It was this combination of his working-class upbringing, war-time military service, his transition from female to male, and the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign that came together to ignite the political fire that drove him to get involved. He began volunteering at the polls, got hired at his local county elections office, and now he’s running for the State Assembly to fight for a better California, for all of us!

Dr. Jé Exodus Hooper (they/them) teaches Theatre History, is a doctor of the Arts and Theology, and an Ethical Humanist clergy. Both as performer and clergy within the Ethical Culture Movement and First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, their ritual-based performance is grounded in the act of homiletics, decolonial Humanism and Black Intellectual Thought.

This week on the show is Jessica, a trans, bi, ace computer programmer by day and D&D Dungeon Master by night.