Some cycles should have ended by now. After twenty-seven years of confronting violence and discrimination, it was devastating to see a seven-year-old trans boy still facing the same pushback. Supported at home, yet bullied, outed, and made to feel unsafe in the world around him. This part of the episode reflects on the weight of that realization. On what it means when children inherit the same battles we were told were already over. On the quiet question that follows. How much longer will this c

It is hard to imagine yourself when no one has shown you that it is possible. Growing up, I had no transgender role models. What I saw in media was sensationalized, distorted, or used for shock. Becoming a man did not feel real or reachable. It felt impossible. This part of the episode reflects on how absence shapes identity. When there are no mirrors, we learn to make compromises with ourselves. I learned that if I loved women, I was expected to accept being a lesbian, because the possibility o

Some doors are never meant to open. Until someone pushes anyway. For years, I never believed I would be allowed to be myself, let alone hold power. And then something happened I was never taught to imagine. I became the first openly transgender man elected in British Columbia. This part of the episode reflects on what it means to be first. To step into spaces that were never designed for you. To carry both possibility and pressure at the same time. Rainbow Country holds these stories because bre