Hi Everyone. Welcome back to Let’s Talk Gender. This episode is about nonbinary gender exploration including my own personal exploration process and some other general ways you can explore your own gender. MY INITIAL GENDER EXPLORATION PROCESS I started with a list of what I knew: Both male and female  My gender fluctuated somewhat I had both physical and social dysphoria I felt invisible but didn’t feel ready to come out yet I then made a ..read more

Hey everyone, I’m Meaghan Ray, a nonbinary person, and the host of Let’s Talk Gender. Coming up in September 2020 is season 2! This season will be another eight episodes, this time around the topic of nonbinary identities and experiences. If you listened to Season 1 you got to hear from my husband about his experiences with transitioning. This season will be more of a radio host monologue style with just me as the host.  Here’s ..read more

OVERVIEW In this episode we talk about Jake’s path to top surgery and his experiences of the procedure and the recovery process. We also discuss the role of the partner and Meaghan Ray’s experience during each stage of this process. SHOW NOTES Jake’s Top Surgery Experience Referral to gender psychiatrist September 2016 Saw gender psychiatrist July 2017 Referral to top surgery – likely a two month wait No word, called back, finally heard from the ..read more

OVERVIEW The changes with HRT are some of the most positive and euphoric aspects of transition. We talk about Jake’s experience with Testosterone and going through his second puberty. He talks about all the different physical changes and the emotional changes as well. We also discuss what it was like as his partner adapting to those changes. SHOW NOTES Jake’s Experience Taking Testosterone Typical trans narrative is based on changes with HRT External, obvious changes ..read more

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Let’s Talk Gender. This episode is about pregnancy and parenting as a nonbinary person including navigating the incredibly gendered world of fertility and pregnancy, the physical experience of being pregnant, and my thoughts as I look ahead to parenting. FERTILITY AND TRYING TO CONCEIVE Over the course of four years, my husband and I tried as many methods of getting pregnant as we could access. This included home insemination, known ..read more

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Let’s Talk Gender. This episode is about living in the world as a nonbinary person including what ‘passing’ means for nonbinary people, navigating public washrooms, going to the gym, and how a nonbinary perspective can influence how you interpret other aspects of society.  PASSING AS NONBINARY Passing typically refers to the idea of ‘blending in’ with one of the binary genders, or being consistently recognized as the gender you identify ..read more

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Let’s Talk Gender. This episode is about some of the more complex aspects of being nonbinary such as genderfluid identities, how physical and social aspects of gender can feel at odds with each other, and how nonbinary genders interact with sexual orientation. GENDERFLUID IDENTITIES Let’s start with a deeper look at genderfluid identities. I’m going to break this into three different categories for ease of explanation. These categories are arbitrary ..read more

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Let’s Talk Gender. This episode is about coming out as nonbinary, why it is so darn hard, how to figure out whether it’s the right time and place to do it (again), and how to respond to inappropriate questions and ignorance.  TO COME OUT OR NOT TO COME OUT… I look at coming out as an equation between pros and cons. On the pro side, I have need and benefit ..read more

Hi Everyone. Welcome back to Let’s Talk Gender.  This episode is about nonbinary gender presentation and expression and how to figure out what works for you.  EXPLORING MY GENDER PRESENTATION AND EXPRESSION I think of presentation as things people would see in a picture – clothes, hair style, makeup, facial hair, accessories. Expression is everything else – behaviours, voice, how you walk, gesture, and move, conversation style, word choice. As I was raised female and ..read more

Hi Everyone. Welcome back to Let’s Talk Gender. This episode is about nonbinary gender exploration including my own personal exploration process and some other general ways you can explore your own gender. MY INITIAL GENDER EXPLORATION PROCESS I started with a list of what I knew: Both male and female  My gender fluctuated somewhat I had both physical and social dysphoria I felt invisible but didn’t feel ready to come out yet I then made a ..read more