Trandescendant
Father/daughter duo, Joe and Rya, discuss LGBTQ family issues and how to preserve positive relationships
Trandescendant
Latest Episodes
Without Hope There is No Tomorrow
Think about the person who gave you hope when you needed it most. Somebody did. Maybe they said one sentence and never knew it mattered. Harvey Milk built an entire movement on it at a time when hope was in very short supply. Joe and Rya trace ...
Loving Your LGBTQ Child Is A Behavior, Not A Feeling
When his daughter came out, Joe suggested she dress at home and go back to being someone else the moment she stepped outside. He thought he was keeping her safe. Years later, researchers have put numbers to what those compromises do to a young ...
How LGBTQ Media Portrayals Have Both Helped and Hurt Us
You have probably felt the pull in both directions. Seeing a queer character on screen for the first time can change what a young person believes is possible for their own life. Watching that same character get written off as a punchline can un...
I Feared Coming Out More Than Death
What does it actually feel like to be so afraid of coming out as LGBTQ+ that dying starts to look like the reasonable option? Rya lived it. These are her real journal entries from 2014, read aloud for the first time, written during the two year...
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Answering the Objective-Sounding Case Against Trans People
It is possible to get everything wrong in a perfectly calm voice. Is it true that transgender people had the culture on their side until they pushed too far? Father and daughter, Joe and Rya answer the points one at a time, showing why claims t...
