Josephine Hughes is back with the second series of Gloriously Unready.

After sharing her story of becoming a mum to two transgender daughters, she's now exploring what it's like to be transgender in a world that in many ways is not ready for you?

And how can you ever be ready to tell the people that you love, that you are not what they think you are?

Each of the six guests in this series share their own stories of coming out both to themselves and to others. You'll hear them describe the impact on them and their families and their thoughts on the decision they made to be honest with themselves and with their loved ones.

And along the way you'll also hear how their perspective on gender is something that challenges us all to think more deeply about the assumptions we make about each other.

The new series will start on Monday 26th June 2023 and episodes will come out daily!

Hi, I'm Josephine Hughes and I'm the mum of two transgender young women who came out in their teens and early twenties. I tell the story of what that was like for me as a mother in my first series of the podcast, but so many people have asked me for my daughter's side of the story. They want to hear what it was like for them to come out and what it's like to be living as transgender women.

And so my beautiful daughters have been the inspiration for this second series of Gloriously Unready

because what is it like to be transgender in a world that in many ways is not ready for you? And how can you ever be ready to tell the people that you love, that you are not what they think you are?

Each of my six guests in this series share their own stories of coming out both to themselves. And to others. You'll hear them describe the impact on them and their families and their thoughts on the decision they made to be honest with themselves and with their loved ones.

And along the way you'll also hear how their perspective on gender is something that challenges us all to think more deeply about the assumptions we make about each other.

It was all fetish. You would not choose such a public and difficult process, but in that process there is so much fun and joy and you get to re-experience life again in a way you, you previously didn't think was possible.

And there they were, my boobs on the floor.

Oh, goodness. Yeah. Talk about an out of body experience.

It was, so there were two bags and it labeled them left and right. How much they weighed. They weighed just over three kilograms. When the surgeon came in, it was either, I think it was the morning after, I said oh did everything go well? He said yes, Tommy. He said usually we put, what did he call it? Breast in in a dog poo bag. I said oh right, ok. He said for you, we had to get bin liners.

When we sat down, I was like, mummy would like to start, maybe change their name and maybe change some of the words that we use when we talk about mummy, because I don't feel like a boy or a girl. And she looked at me and was like, ok. And that was it. And that was it. And sometimes, it's a conversation that keeps on going.

So if they have got it wrong, then the absolute best thing you can do is support them and support their identity and unequivocally use the right pronouns, support whatever they want to do, because then they won't dig their heels in with their identity. They won't feel like they have to go further along a route that isn't right for them to prove their identity. If you honor and respect somebody's identity and pronouns without them needing to go through any medical processes, then they aren't going to feel so compelled to go through medical processes just so that the world accepts them, which is what sometimes people still do.

If you can come out as trans to your family, get top surgery and speak on a stage about all of your experiences, there's pretty much nothing you can't do. Yeah, that's my general rule. I'm like, it's hard to worry about hitting rock bottom when you've done stuff like this.

Like I have exposed myself physically and mentally to an insane degree all over the internet by choice. Yeah. It's very hard to embarrass me now. Yeah. It is very hard to make me uncomfortable and I revel in that.

I was walking through Manchester yesterday thinking I was joking to my friend. I got to the hotel. Seven years ago we used to go to Manchester together. I said the first thing we used to do was put our bras on, put our wigs on, put our boobs in, get our makeup on, and go and hit town.

Tonight, the first thing I did was take my bra off, take my shoes off, take my makeup off, plonk onto bed. And put the tele on, and I, no, I wasn't interested in going out at all. Yeah. Okay. Some of that's not interesting, but also some of it's a kind of, I'm just completely comfortable with who you are being me.