{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fb12f5700-44ab-4a98-b467-7d0a72da2139","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Episode 087: My Transgender Life \u2013 Christine Roy","description":"I want you to take a journey with me. A journey where the truth of who you are is as follows. You\u2019ve never been married. You\u2019re an avid motorcyclist who\u2019s traveled from the Pacific Coast all the way to the Great Lakes. You love your cats, attending church, cooking and you even had the thrilling opportunity to be an extra on the hit TV show Glee. Yet, through all of this great stuff, that pebble in the shoe so to speak just kept bugging you and you were trying to get the real you out to show up in life so you could be exactly who you\u2019ve always been. However, what you realized is just like a kid who dreams of being a major league baseball player, in order to make that dream come true you\u2019ve got to have talent and drive to make it happen. For you, to be who you are was necessarily a talent thing, but it was certainly going to take some drive. Today, my guest is a beautiful, transparent, open human being who I\u2019ve had the pleasure of getting to know as we both speak on PFLAG panels at colleges and universities throughout Southern California together. She\u2019s a joy to listen to, and her coming out story, while challenging has not been all doom and gloom. I attribute her smoother than normal journey to her being a lovely spirit and soul who just happened to be trapped in a human form that truly wasn\u2019t the form she was meant to be. Welcome to the podcast my friend Christine Roy.\r\nShow Highlights\r\n\r\n* \u201cMachismo\u201d kept Christine and others \u201cin line\u201d so they didn\u2019t become girls\r\n* She had a big fear, and it\u2019s a common one. Losing her family\u2026\r\n* The journey really starts when you come out as who you are\r\n* Pre-transition, Chrisine used to deal with things by closing others off, but not now\r\n* How did therapy help give her the confidence to be open and transgender?\r\n\r\nConnect with Christine Roy\r\nTwitter\r\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/4b9b6c41-474a-4fd0-a374-cbb2a7aa23a4/1400x1400_uncloseted_artwork-01-573.jpg"}