#14 | Challenges and Triumphs of Transgender Individuals & the Importance of Being an ally
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In this 3-part episode, host Deborah Rohan speaks with Finley, a transgender non-binary individual, about their experiences as a trans person navigating today’s challenging society. Finley shares their experience announcing their gender identity to their schoolmates, the benefits of family love and support, the importance of using correct pronouns for trans individuals, safety concerns, current legislation against trans people, and more.
In the second segment, Deborah Rohan shares her own world-changing experiences from studying international business to working in international relations, from rejecting a business career and finding her passion as a writer, and as co-founder and director of the non-profit, Meet the Middle East. She discusses her two books, The Olive Grove: A Palestinian Story and One Person Acted and Everything Changed, and how her experience of the pandemic inspired her to start a podcast.
Part three of the podcast includes a discussion of her daughter, Jessica’s experience raising monarch butterflies, noting it can be a small yet impactful and joyful way to make a difference in the world.
Jessica’s detailed blog-post on the topic provides instructions and photos of the process, meant to help shore up the dwindling Monarch butterfly population. You can find the blog here:
https://thetreekisser.com/wildlife/how-to-raise-monarch-butterflies-at-home/