Rocco Kayiatos is an award-winning storyteller and community builder, with a professional background in media making and marketing. He released 4 solo albums under the moniker Katastrophe and is hailed as the first openly FTM musician to release an album. Kayiatos is also one of the founding editors of Original Plumbing Magazine, the first print magazine dedicated to trans male culture. He transitioned in 2000 and has been outspoken, making media and creating space for trans men since then. He is currently the founder and executive director of The Intentional Man Project and Camp Lost Boys which recently became a 501(c)3. Camp Lost boys is a traditional summer camp experience for men of transgender experience over the age of 18. He is also a writer, podcaster, and content creator for several companies including BuzzFeed, The Cut, Spring Hill, Headspace, Spotify, Grindr, and FOLX Health.

River is a transman in his early 50s, who moved to Seattle from the Midwest to transition in the mid-90s. Through the support and care of other transmen during his coming of age as a young transman, he learned that there were so many possibilities than he had imagined for how to be a transman in this world. He is currently a college professor, something he never dreamed possible for himself before he encountered other successful transmen. He is very engaged in mentoring, advocacy, and care for his beloved community, and aimes to give back all of that support he received.

Vinnie is a trans man who transitioned in 1993 as a 24 year old. He has spent his career working in animal welfare and animal rescue and currently works for a large animal welfare nonprofit. He is originally from the east coast where he was involved in starting and running the True Spirit conference. He currently lives on the west coast with his wife and dogs and enjoys hiking and other outdoor activities.

Marcus Arana/Holy Old Man Bull is a retired Discrimination Investigator, former radio DJ, cook, carpenter, carnie, and farm worker. His ancestors are Blackfeet/Irish and Ohlone/Indigenous Mexican/ Scottish. Holy Old Man Bull is a trans masculine and Two Spirit Elder spending his time with his wife Nancy and Frank The Tank, his Labrador Retriever, puttering in his veggie garden, and subverting the dominant paradigm.

Elliot is a 45 year old trans person living in northern California. Elliot, like many of the guests on the STP, once lived in the Pacific Northwest. He rides his bike a lot and lives with a cat named Agnes. Take a listen. Elliot is a charmer, well spoken and tender hearted.

Lorne retired from the fire department after 28 years of service. Lorne was also a professional athlete for 17 years. Lorne started to transition in 2010, had top surgery in June 2014, started T in March 2015, and had first stage bottom surgery in October 2017. His last stage or lower surgery was in March 2020. Lorne has lived a life of service and is a big brother, and friend to many trans guys.

Willy Wilkinson, MPH is an award-winning writer, public health consultant, and cultural competency trainer who has been advocating for marginalized populations since the early days of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning book Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency, which illuminates trans experience from a Chinese American and mixed heritage perspective, and transforms the memoir genre into a cultural competency tool. Over the past three decades, Willy has provided LGBTQ and trans-specific training for hundreds of community health organizations, educational institutions, and businesses.

Masen Davis is a human rights activist who has spent the last 30 years advocating for LGBT rights. He came out as a transman in the mid-1990s and soon became active in the Southern California trans community, where he helped organize the 1999 Forward Motion conference for FTMs in Burbank and launch FTM Alliance of Los Angeles (now Gender Justice LA) with many of the conference organizers. Since then, he’s served in leadership roles at the Transgender Law Center; GATE (Global Action for Trans Equality); the International Trans Fund; Freedom for All Americans; and Transgender Europe.

Stephan Pennington is a critical musicologist focusing on popular music and cultural studies at Tufts University. A pioneering scholar on Transgender Studies in Music, he has been sought out for a number of public intellectual projects, including the documentary No Ordinary Man about trans masculine jazz musician Billy Tipton. He has also dedicated service to the trans community, being the keynote speaker for LA Trans Unity, speaking on trans topics on national television, and performing music at Cristopher Street West and Trans/Giving, a musical series in Los Angeles. He is currently working on two book projects, one on transgender vocality and the second on the persistence of enlightenment white supremacy in current musicological culture. He is also a Twitch Streamer who streams Table Top Role-Playing Games like Dungeons & Dragons and cultivates a welcoming community.

Ryan Sallans, MA is an international speaker and author who specializes in inclusion, diversity, and healthcare. Over the past 20 years, Ryan has worked in the fields of eating disorder recovery, sexual orientation, and gender identity development. In 2021, Ryan became the first person outside a lawyer to address the United States Courts for a Heritage Month Event (Pride Month). Ryan uses the craft of educational storytelling, guided by his academic degrees in cultural anthropology, English and educational psychology to assist audiences in breaking down the barriers that gender presents us all.

Matt Rice is a long-time transitioned (more than 30 years) non-binary trans guy. Matt began his activism in the late 1980s and early 1990s with ACT UP and Queer Nation in Chicago. Matt was involved in trans visibility activism in the early 1990s in San Francisco. Matt was a research assistant for the SF Department of Public Health on the first HIV seroprevalence study of the transgender community in San Francisco in the late 1990s. Matt has been a high school science teacher for more than 17 years, and currently works as an instructional coach for his local school district. He is happiest when he is working in intersectional equity advocacy in PreK–12 spaces. Matt has just finished his dissertation on the experiences of trans and non-binary teachers in K–12 education.

Finn identifies as a transman and began his medical transition in 2006 at the age of 31. He grew up in a small town in Iowa, and is a first generation college graduate. He has a master's degree in nursing and works as a community mental health nurse. He's also a veteran of the United States Navy. Finn loves the outdoors, trees, and hiking adventures with his spouse. He's a proud stepdad to two wonderful young people.

Cooper Lee Bombardier is a queer, trans American writer and visual artist living in Canada. He is the author of the memoir-in-essays Pass With Care, a finalist for the 2021 Firecracker Award in Nonfiction. His writing appears in The Kenyon Review, The Malahat Review, Ninth Letter, CutBank, Nailed Magazine, Longreads, Narratively, BOMB, and The Rumpus; and in 19 anthologies, including the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology, The Remedy–Essays on Queer Health Issues, and the Lambda-nominated anthology, Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Speculative Fiction From Transgender Writers, which won a 2018 American Library Association Stonewall Book Award. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Nonfiction program at University of King’s College and in women, gender, and sexuality studies at Saint Mary’s University.

Mac co-founded the nonprofit, “Positive Masculinity”, a project for heart-led masculine folks who want to create a transformative path for masculinity in our world. He is a radio show host of "The You Can Make A Difference Show" on Rainier Avenue Radio and in 2017 Mac ran for Seattle City Council and was the first transgender person ever to be on a ballot in Washington State. The Mayor appointed Mac as a Seattle City Commissioner in 2011 and he served until 2016. He currently serves on the Seattle Renter's Commission appointed by the City Council. Mac is on the Washington state council for PFLAG and on the Seattle Police Department LGBT advisory board. He continuously speaks on panels and solo at numerous colleges, non-profit groups, and state and city governments on gender & sexuality.

"Jack O'Rion Barker has lived in the Pacific Northwest since coming to Seattle for graduate school in 1972. He began his transition in 1989. Jack is a bespoke corset maker by trade and has been a member of Seattle's leather community for more than 40 years. Now in his seventies, Jack continues to come up with ways to push a variety of envelopes."

Lukas is a certified counselor and experienced educator, community developer, and group facilitator, working closely with British Columbia’s trans* population and their families, clinical care teams, schools and employers, providing peer support, transitional guidance and customized information sessions for nearly 20 years. He is co-founder of FTM Etc, a peer support/discussion group still going strong since 1998, and a longtime member of World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Lukas is someone who is very dear to both Kai and Jackal. He’s a master storyteller and you won’t be able to keep yourself from falling in love with him.

Cam is a man living a stealth lifestyle yet still engaging in community and mentoring younger transmen. The birth parent of two sons, he says that although he was always masculine, he would not have transitioned earlier than he did in 2006 when he was in his 40s. He has had his own business doing antiracism work with executives since 2004. Having gone through many surgeries with some serious complications, he reemerged into his practice as male not wanting white people to get distracted due to being trans. He is a practicing Buddhist and also an avid weightlifter.

Ed Varga is a trans man who might be considered a trans elder, having come out as trans around 1995. He is composer and songwriter based in San Francisco, California. He has been an activist and organizer in the queer and trans communities since 1989. He has been active in the queer music world (historically known as homocore and queercore) since the early 1990's as a musician, activist and producer.

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Award-winning social worker, published author, and public speaker, Zander Keig is a Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) Advisor and Senior Fellow, Institute for Liberal Values Diversity Director, and sought-after international corporate emotional wellness and personal growth workshop facilitator.

Jack is a first-generation Chicano, born in a small rural town in Northern California to parents from Mexico City. Jack identifies as a Trans-Man and started his transition in 2002. Jack has his law degree and has worked as a public defender for 17 years. Jack presents and educates at universities on trans-awareness, issues and on how to be an ally.