Interview with the “Women-In-Depth” Podcast
Interview with: Women-in-Depth: Conversations About the Inner Lives of Women, Episode #24. Hosted by Lourdes Viado, PhD, MFT.
Date of release: December 8, 2016
Episode length: 49 minutes
From the host:
My guest on the podcast this week is Dara Hoffman-Fox. Dara is a Licensed Professional Counselor and gender therapist in private practice who works with transgender, gender variant, and gender questioning individuals. Dara frequently serves as a resource on transgender issues for the media and is a prolific gender-identity thought leader whose articles and videos have empowered thousands worldwide. Dara provides educational resources through a blog (darahoffmanfox.com), YouTube channel, social media networks, trainings, and presentations, and is the author of You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- Gender therapy, working with people on transgender issues
- Creating a more welcoming world for people who are transgender
- Helping people with their gender identity
- How transgender issues touch upon most people’s lives
- Why more people will start to come out with future generations
- Looking at America’s history of previously oppressed groups
- Creating a better society by opening up to social groups
- What it means to be transgender
- Why physiology and genitalia don’t specifically relate to gender
- How transgender forms through discomfort of an assigned gender
- The challenges and experiences people go through
- Overcoming repressed feelings
- Dealing with decisions on a daily basis driven by gender (e.g. Which public bathroom to use)
- Why trans people don’t get to choose their gender
- The transition differences between male and female
- How puberty effects the transition differences
- Getting support from friends and family
- Q&A from listeners
Emma Sweet
December 7, 2016 at 5:45 PMOne of the best interviews I’ve heard, Dara. Lourdes was a great host and as always you’re so articulate and well-spoken. Sure, I’ve heard or learned much of what was talked about but it helps me so much to hear it again. I always learn something more.
Thank you for posting this!