The Queer Carter Podcast

The Queer Carter Podcast

Are you a Transgender or a Gender Non-Conforming person? Are you LGBTQIA+? Are you a supportive family member or friend? No matter who you are or where you are on your own journey, if you want to feel instantly connected, informed, and inspired on the complex journey of gender transition this podcast is for you. Host Queer Carter, an openly Transgender Transmasculine person, provides a strong sense of inspiring interviews, resources, role models, and community so that you can stop searching for hope in time of transition. Laugh, cry, and relate with real stories from courageous Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming peers and allies just like you who too grapple with their own identity, especially in the context of traditional American values – family, military, small business, education, faith, and more. A mix of interviews, special co-hosts, solo shows, and more, infused with vulnerable honesty, relatable humor, and energized passion. Hit subscribe, and get ready to live your most fulfilled, and authentic life, unapologetically, as you.

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January 28, 2026 6 mins

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A Few Words of Support: Living Through That Iffy, Messy Middle

S2, E4 This episode is a little pep talk for anyone stuck in the “??? phase” of life. You know — the in-between season where nothing is fully wrong, nothing is fully right, and everyone keeps asking “So what’s next?” . I share a few honest, comforting thoughts from the middle of my own limbo — about waiting, trusting the process, and learning to breathe while ...

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#S2 E3 Traveling Trans and Delicious Sour Guava Beers

January's adventure:
 • Queer Carter vs. TSA license protocols 🙃
 • Binary World: “Male or Female?”
 • Me: “✨Plot twist✨”
 • TSA agent: buffering… ⏳

Survived security, found guava beer in Colorado, so honestly I’m thriving 🤌🍻

Being queer out in the world is wild sometimes —
 like trying to fit your entire gender into a dropdown menu.
 Spoi...

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#S2 E2 Happy Sunday, my Friendlings! 

Sundays....one of my favorite days to relax, drink Puka Love tea, and contemplate all the wonderings of this life. My main topic today, how to bring more peace, ease, and joy into life by understanding a concept I'm totally digging on right now....The Window of Tolerance, a term coined by Daniel J. Siegel, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. Listen ...

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October 18, 2025 5 mins

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#S2, 1 Does popcorn ever really go bad? Are Honey Nut Cheerios truly made with real honey? And why do people keep calling me ma'am?? My first attempt at "Micro Podcasting"! I think that is what it's called.... Darcy queer style, other ramblings, and more!

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#8 This one is for you if you have been struggling with your own Trans identity and the desire to claim your name on your social security card, driver's license, and the important documents that support claiming your true and authentic identity.

Today I share my lived experience going to the Social Security Administration with a legal court order to change my name and a request to update my gender marker with the U.S...

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December 18, 2024 48 mins

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#7 Join Queer Carter as he continues the conversation with Colette about everyday Transgender courage, gender expression, and the power of showing yourself love in the face of loss and grief. Join two friends as they explore all of this and more on the Queer Carter Podcast!
 
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December 4, 2024 44 mins

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#6: Join Queer Carter with his good friend, Colette Gaffney, as he turns the mic on himself for a personal reflection on his own gender transition. Rhys explores all his physical changes, emotions, and the courage it takes to challenge gender norms and face his new reality as a transmasculine man!

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#5 Join Queer Carter as he sits down with Mandy Giles, Founder of Parents of Trans Youth and the Everyday Trans Activism podcast, for this wonderful discussion about activism, courage, and the “stick-with-it-ness” it takes to fight with heart for our Trans Youth in America today.

Parents and Trans friends, this one is for you if you have been struggling with how to best support your trans kids, where to start, ...

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November 7, 2024 15 mins

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#4 Join Queer Carter in his first episode back as he vulnerably shares his own feelings about November 5th's significant U.S. election. Receive words of comfort and encouragement no matter where you are as we acknowledge the sadness and fear but also the hope and strength that can come from being Transgender in America. 

Show notes are available at: https://queercarterpodcast.com/episodes/season1episode4

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#3: Are you Transgender or LGBTQIA+? Do you live in a small rural town? Or maybe you are an artist, activist, or simply someone who wants to know what it is like to run a small business while living openly as Transgender or gender non-conforming. Sam Wróbel specializes in the Polish paper-cutting folk art of Wycinanki and is a gay, trans, man, and queer artist living in the American South and has experienced transition i...

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November 7, 2023 57 mins

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#2: Join us for the first-ever interview of The Queer Carter Podcast! We sit down with honorary guest, Reverend Dr. M. Colette Gaffney, experienced chaplain, pastor, U.S. Army Veteran, and ACPE Certified Educator! Together we explore their fascinating thirteen years working in healthcare, mental health, and palliative care and discuss the courage and vulnerability it takes to change their name and pronouns in key areas o...

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November 7, 2023 20 mins

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#1: Since 2014, Rhys Carter, "Queer Carter" has lived openly as an LGBTQIA+ gay person and since 2021 as a Transmasculine Transgender person, recently deciding enough was enough and they were ready to live a life of joy, inspiration, fulfillment, and fun. A relatable, well-traveled, humble, yet energized voice from the South, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Queer Carter is on the pursuit to build far-reaching, activ...

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