What About Trans Men? | Who Is Real Men Feel For?

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Hello and welcome to real men.
Feel I am your host, Andy Grant.

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I'm an author coach healer and
speaker, you can visit the Andy

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Grant.com to learn more about
all those things that I'm up to

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reopen.
Feel exists to remind you.

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That men are human beings and we
are entitled to feel and express

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the full range of emotions.
I'm going to emphasize that even

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more today.
Thanks to an email that I

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received last week.
In part, it said about three to

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four years ago.
I came out as a trans man, I

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deal with a lot of imposter
syndrome when it comes to my

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identity, whenever I hear the
name of your podcast, it makes

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me cringe a little because I
don't see myself as a

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quote-unquote, real man, it
makes me feel like this is

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advice that isn't for me.
So, does the advice you give

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count for Trans men, as well as
sis men?

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Nobody is asking me this
question before but it is

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something that I have wondered.
For the first couple of years of

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real men feel I co-hosted the
show with optio Hunter a gay

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male friend of mine.
I thought that one of us being

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straight and one gay would
somehow cover more ground that

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but you know, honestly there was
rarely different advice issues

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or topics for Gay versus
straight men.

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Now I don't recall any episode
specifically about trans men but

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I know that I have often said
that if you consider yourself to

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be a man, Then anything you do
is by definition manly.

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If you see yourself as a man,
then real men, do whatever you

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do.
I know guys that have Ed

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erectile dysfunction others who
have been paralyzed from the

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waist down and, and the neck
down other guys that have

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battled testicular, cancer and
have lost one of their balls,

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right?
As testicle has been removed.

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I don't consider any of them to
be less than.

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I don't consider them as non
men, right?

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They're not people that can no
longer listen to this podcast.

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Biology alone is not the way to
identify, what a man is.

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I also told the emailer that I
talk to so many men about

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imposter syndrome that I'd say
having it is more proof of your

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manliness not less. it also took
me years to be comfortable with

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the title of this show even
though I named it, There is so

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many sayings and memes, Etc,
about real men.

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This and real men, that all of
them pissed me off.

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So, the title is a bit of a play
on that, but also the Rio of

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real men, feel it means genuine
authentic, and being true to

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yourself.
All of that is up to you which I

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think is a good thing.
There's no committee

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organization or individual
deciding whether you are a man

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or not.
It's you.

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You are the best judge of
yourself but often we as human

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beings, are the worst judges of
ourselves because we are so

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harsh.
So is the advice I give on real

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men?
Feel only for sis men.

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From my perspective.
No, real men feel reminds men

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that they are human.
Most of the advice on this show

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is for all human beings.
I hear from many female

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listeners, who, tell me that
they get a lot from the show.

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My intention is to help people.
The end.

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I'm really not concerned with
identity gender, biology labels

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of any sort.
But I see that advice is

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subjective, so I would suggest
more critical than is this

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advice meant for this group or
that group?

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The thing to ask is, do I
resonate with this?

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If you resonate with something,
it's for you if something

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inspires you prompts you to take
action or makes you think it is

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for you?
Even if something pisses you

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off, triggers, you and makes you
think.

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I'd say that is for you as well.
You know, I want to share one

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response from one of the guys I
posed this.

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I shared this question with guys
in the private, real men feel

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group on Facebook.
He said, I know nothing about

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the psyche of anyone going
through transition to either

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gender, but much of what men
feel are expected to feel is

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begun and formed in childhood.
So someone transitioning, to

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female still has this second.
Someone transitioning to mail,

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is going to encounter
expectations, once they are

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male.
Or close to that point.

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So much like the man who wrote
that, what I just shared I know

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nothing about what it is like to
be trans.

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I do know that I struggled a lot
growing up with doubting myself

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questioning, my worth.
My value trying to fit in, with

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this group, that group, any
group, not being, sure of who I

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was, but none of that was about
my gender.

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You know?
I questioned whether I should

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exist.
I questioned.

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I thought maybe if I was born in
different time, If I had to just

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fight for survival, I would
things would be easier.

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I would that would do it.
I wouldn't have time to just

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think so much but none of that
was about.

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Am I am I really Mail Right am?
I, should I be female?

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And again, I just can't imagine
that.

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So I would never speak to that.
I would never judge that.

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That's that's just another level
of Hell upon anyone growing up

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these days and it's I get
imagine just, it's just rough.

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So No, this we're not.
I am not out to exclude anyone

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that is listening.
And if you get something from

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this beautiful, this is for you.
That's it.

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So with that, if you are a trans
man and you want to share a bit

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of your experience on real men,
feel I would be honored to have

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you.
You can reach out to me at real

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men, feel at gmail.com and
wherever you are discovering

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