Stealth: Transmasculine Podcast
Stealth is a podcast that captures the stories of transmasculine elders who transitioned before 2000. Transitioning, for the purposes of our podcast, includes all forms of social and medical transitioning.
Episodes
This special segment comes to us from our latest edition to the stealth team Mikelina Born to Ethiopian, Eritrean immigrants. Mikelina grew up in Arlington, Texas as part of a tight-knit haha diaspora community. They became active in community organizing while attending Texas a and m University before moving on to Harvard Law School where they became steeped in aboliti...
Elijah was born and raised in rural coastal Alaska where he found boyhood playing in the woods, fishing on the rivers and sea, and joining every sport he could. As an adult, he still tries to play in the PNW woods and beaches as often as he can, always with his kid running ahead of him. When not in the woods, you can find him organizing retreats for trans people,...
Max Wolf Valerio is a trans man, and a mixed Blackfoot/Sephardic poet, performer, and writer. He has appeared in a number of documentaries, including the Max short in Monika Treut’s Female Misbehavior. He featured in several feature films, including Unhung Heroes, in which he plays a pansexual artistic transman who dreams of exhibiting sculptures of his penis, and Gend...
Patrick lives in a tiny house in Philadelphia with his wife, toddler, and elderly beagle mix. Patrick is a seasoned psychotherapist who specializes in helping his clients heal from PTSD and Complex trauma. As a trauma survivor himself, this is Patrick's life's work. As the founder of Philadelphia EMDR, Patrick provides trauma-informed care and Eye Movement Desensitizat...
Raymond Rea is a filmmaker and writer. Ray's work often challenges assumptions, hints at theatricality, and uses a raw LoFi aesthetic to address complexities. He is distributed through Canyon Cinema and Frameline Distribution https://raymondrea.com
Kylar Broadus is a black trans man who has been a pioneer in the movement as an attorney, longtime activist, public speaker, author, and Professor. Kylar is known worldwide for his avant garde work in the LGBT and Trans rights movements. He's the founder and director of the Trans People of Color Coalition, the only national organization dedicated to the civil rights of...
Jamison Green, Ph.D. is an author, educator, public speaker, independent legal scholar, and expert policy consultant in transgender health and employment discrimination litigation. He is best known for his influential book Becoming a Visible Man, first published in 2004 and updated in 2020. This work is considered a classic in transgender literature, offering valuable ...
Ivan Coyote is a writer and storyteller. Born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon, they are the author of thirteen books, the creator of four films, six stage shows, and three albums that combine storytelling with music. Coyote’s books have won the ReLit Award, been named a Stonewall Honour Book, been longlisted for Canada Reads, and been shortlisted for the Hilary Weston ...
As an intersex male, DeMarco T. Lord has dedicated his life to championing the rights and well-being of marginalized communities. He is the passionate Founder and Executive Director of Advocates of the South Inc., where his leadership and unwavering commitment to activism shine. DeMarco is an activist first and an advocate second, prioritizing impactful change over rec...
Anthony (he/him) is a 48-year old transman who lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife of 15 years and their 8-year old son. He has been part of the Queer community since the 90s. After questioning his gender identity for many years, he decided to begin his medical transition in 2013. Anthony is most proud of being a father and a husband and he enjoys cooking, horror movie...
Dave is a 50 year old gay trans man who started identifying as openly queer in 1994 and as a trans man in 2001. He started his medical transition in early 2002 in Portland, OR with a few other “litter mates” but, after moving multiple times, lost that sense of connection and community with other trans men. In 2018 he joined Instagram hoping to find connections with oth...
Shawn Demmons is a queer African American trans man committed to social and racial justice. Shawn has 10+ years of experience providing community health education training, capacity building, and technical assistance to increase provider knowledge and awareness about trans people and the best practices to engage transgender communities in health care. Shawn has de...
Garrett is a 43 year old tranman who began his transition in Florida in the late 90’s. He has lived all over the United States and has held all kinds of jobs in youth advocacy, health care and a few odd ones as well. Garrett has had many titles but the ones that have brought him the most joy in the current years have been friend, brother, and uncle to the vibrant and b...
Carter, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition (BTAC), has played a pivotal role in advancing the rights and well-being of Black transgender individuals. As a transgender man who understands the challenges of marginalized communities firsthand, Carter established BTAC in 2011, making it the first national, Black trans-led n...
Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware is an Assistant Professor at the School of the Arts at McMaster University. A Vanier scholar, visual artist, activist, curator and educator, Ware uses drawing and painting, installation, and performance to explore social justice frameworks and Black activist culture. His work has been shown widely across Canada in solo and group shows, and his performance works have been part of local and international festiva...
Max is a 45-year-old queer man, dad and avid fossil hunter, who began transitioning in 1999. He
has lived all over, but his longest stint thus far has been in Philadelphia, where he works as a nurse
practitioner in an outpatient infectious diseases practice and specializes in caring for people living
with HIV. He is passionate about too many things, some of which include harm reduction, queer
history, rocks, poetry and boats.
Patrick is a 50-ish year old, black, gay trans man. He started his medical transition in 2012 and started socially transitioning on a part-time basis around 2007 or 2008. He discovered language that allowed him to understand himself around 2005., but struggled to take the steps to begin the process for a while.
Patrick is a funeral director. “So I guess you'd say that is my "expertise". I've tried...
Jonathan, who grew up in London, England (as well as Saudi Arabia), transitioned when he was 16 years old in the late 2000s. As a teen, he was blessed with a supportive mum who was able to work with him to afford him gender affirming hormone treatment, and he has lived as male for most of his teens and all of his adulthood. Subject of Channel 4 documentary 'The Boy Who was Born A Girl', Jonathan's early medical and social transitio...
Lucas Silveira, frontman of The Cliks, now a solo artist, made history as the first openly transgender man signed by a major label with Warner Music, Tommy Boy/Silver Label in 2006. He's graced global stages alongside Cyndi Lauper, The B-52’s, Debbie Harry, Tegan and Sara, The Cult, and The New York Dolls. As co-host of Vice's Shine True in 2021, he expanded into TV.
Shawn is a black queer trans man who uses his lived experiences to inform his intersectional approach to addressing systemic issues related to access to non biased healthcare and gender affirming surgery. Shawn is a dogged advocate, talented artist, a gifted storyteller whose style is warm and engaging. Shawn has nine years of experience as the executive director of Demboys Inc. Dem Bois Inc is a 501(c)(3) organization with the ...
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