Episode
Born This Way: A Life Reclaimed After 60 Years of Silence
- Podcast
- Coming Out Stories
- Published
- Jun 18, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 2134
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/coming-out-stories-414403/episodes/born-this-way-a-life-reclaimed-after-60-years-of-silence/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/coming-out-stories-414403/born-this-way-a-life-reclaimed-after-60-years-of-silence.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
What happens when you've spent nearly seven decades hiding your true self? Wendy Cole's story is a testament to courage, resilience, and the transformative power of authenticity. Born in the late 1940s, Wendy knew from age three that she was a girl, despite being assigned male at birth. At ten years old, she bravely dressed in her mother's clothes and declared her truth—only to face threats of psychiatric commitment in 1950s America. Her journey took another painful turn in the 1970s when a ...