The Transgender Show

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This week's episode features Madi (MadlyMadiii on Instagram). Madi is an influencer and model from New York City, documenting the trans experience with honesty and humor. Through her online presence she’s trying to normalize what it means to be publicly trans, and helping with advice.

This week's episode features Nia. She’s an HR director, new author, and mom of 5 from Iowa. She turned her struggle with accepting herself into the book Story of Nib, and she runs the transgender mentoring and support site Love In The Face with her wife.

This episode features Attorney Rachel Maes. She has spent her legal career trying to make life better and safer for her neighbors and improving their communities. We talk about transitioning with a spouse and kids and her run for the office of judge in her county.

This week's episode features Tiffany (EmbracingTiffany on Instagram). Tiffany is an aircraft mechanic at a major airport in Minnesota who transitioned while on the job. Not only is she a (self proclaimed) kick-ass mechanic with 20 years in the aviation industry, she’s also a wife and mother of two.

This week’s episode features Samantha (SuddenlySamantha on Twitter and Facebook). She's a major force in the online trans community and her Instagram account SuddenlySamantha grew to over 67 thousand followers in just three years. She is the host of the show Trans IRL on YouTube and Facebook.

This week's guest is Jennell Jaquays. Jennell was one of the first two publishers of pre-created DnD adventures when her friends published the Dungeoneer. They sold that to Judges Guild and she continued to do some work for them creating Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia, two of the best selling DnD adventures of all time. She was the head of the design department for the entire run of the Colecovision, later returning to video games working on design, artwork, and level design. Some of her big projects included Halo Wars, and Age of Empires III.

This week's guest is Becky Heineman. "Burger" Becky was the first person to ever win a national video game tournament, but her interest in video games went much deeper than just playing. She's got credits on over 250 games but as the de facto programming guru at Interplay, she worked in some way on practically everything they released through the early 90s. She has a tough backstory, which makes her success all the more triumphant.

The host of The Transgender Show, Emily takes a turn in the hot seat and has a good friend interview her for a bit of tables-turned action. A graphic designer by trade, Emily was late to the game in realizing the feelings and issues she'd been struggling with were primarily dysphoria related. The loss of her marriage was one large domino in a string of dominoes poised to fall. She ripped the band-aid off, showing up to work one day in skirt, heels, and makeup (almost) ready to face the consequences of her new outward identity. Although her journey has been full of fear and trepidation, she knows every step has helped her to find the true self she'd been fighting against and stuffing down her whole life. Now that she's found her voice, she loves telling her story, naked and unvarnished.