A recording of Clare's keynote address at Albertus Magnus College's Lavender Graduation Celebration, May 7, 2025.

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Executive Director and founder of Q+ CT discusses creating safe spaces for queer youth.

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APRN Jurg Oggenfuss talks about serving the needs of the LGBTQ+  community in his practice.

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Justice Thomas on Obergefell
ACA on Gender Affirming Care
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Sex Trivia May 23
Sabbath Queen at Cinestudio
Prism’s Big Gay Cabaret
Milford Public Library

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Author Angela Wicke joins Clare to discuss her Isekai-based novel series I  Left My Hormones in Another World.

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Miriam, Maddy and Miles from Dignity Boston talk with Clare about deconstructing Catholicism.

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering. 

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Rebecca Degnan, Jillian Celentano and Emma Gulick join Clare to talk mental health, community-building and gay hedgehogs (who are the best!)

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Prism Counseling
Prideful Connections
Gus
Transqat Episode 14: PROUD Academy
PROUD Academy Update
Transitioning Later In Life: A Personal Guide
Explicitly Broken
Deer Lake Outdoor Center
Quinn Miller
Porcine Therapy!
Jeopardy on Election Night
Q+
Shana B’s By the Sea
Two Wrasslin’ Cats
The Rockettes
Hilary Weissberg
Transqat Episode 48: Hilary Weissberg
Backstage Dance
Transcend Tae Kwon Do

Poet, literary scholar, and essayist Joy Ladin talks with Clare about God, the naming of things, and what trans advocacy is getting wrong.

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering. 

Transqat: We Stand.

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Joy Ladin
ME/CFS
Day of GIFTS
North Haven Public Library Event
Prism Book Club
Trans Day of Visibility Event
Sex Trivia Night

Clare parses EO 14149: Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship, managing to compare 47 to Pliny the Elder.

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Filmmaker Logan Ward discusses his documentary short Remarkable: Voice From the Trans Community.

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering. 

Transqat: We Stand.

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Remarkable: Voices From the Trans Community
Logan Ward
Sam Nordquist
Restorative Justice on the Rise
P. Carl
Julia Serano
What is A Woman?
Eric Gordon
Marijke Naezer
Transqat Store
Hammond Samba
Spot On Period Tracker
Bathroom signs
Will & Harper
Prelinger Archives
Lady Valor
Logan Ward (Insta)
SOGIECon
A Day of GIFTS

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Robin McHaelen, executive director of True Colors, talks with Clare about the upcoming SOGIECon 2025 youth conference. Also on board is UCONN MSW student Beatrice Whalen.

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering. 

Transqat: We Stand.

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McHaelen Consulting
SOGIECon Registration
SOGI
The Health Collective
House of LaBeija
Mucha
Voguing
Two-Spirit
Free Mom Hugs
Anxiety Rates in Bi Kids
Jade Esteban Estrada
Rev. Shaneequa Brokenleg
Daveed Correa
Tawana Woolfolk
Sampson McCormick
Remarkable: Voices From the Trans Community
P. Carl
Julia Serano
Prism Book Club
Broken People, Sam Lansky

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Clare parses the language in Executive Order 14187: Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation

A Valentine's Day special! Clare talks with six queer couples about what it means to love out loud in the current cultural climate. 

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering. 

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Photos from the Event
Ed & Joe
The bear community
Hillside Campgrounds
Northeast Ursamen
Now That You Know, Betty Fairchild & Nancy Hayward
Theresa Govert
Palmer-Warner House
Frederic & Howard
Jim & Amos
Goodspeed Opera House
CT Gilbert & Sullivan Society
Kate Swift & Casey Miller
Boston Marriage
Shaun King quote

Cameron & Kilder
Rio Carnival
Pabllo Vittar
Claudia F

Kelly & Jesse
Neurotypical
Fox Host Trolls Kamala & Doug

Alexis & Chris
Game of Thrones
A Discovery of Witches
Taimi

Hayley & Sam
The Traitors
Onion Earrings
The Crystal Woods (Hayley’s Studio)
Demi Lovato

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A Valentine's Day special! Clare talks with six queer couples about what it means to love out loud in the current cultural climate. 

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering. 

Transqat: We Stand.

Show Notes

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Ed & Joe
The bear community
Hillside Campgrounds
Northeast Ursamen
Now That You Know, Betty Fairchild & Nancy Hayward
Theresa Govert
Palmer-Warner House
Frederic & Howard
Jim & Amos
Goodspeed Opera House
CT Gilbert & Sullivan Society
Kate Swift & Casey Miller
Boston Marriage
Shaun King quote

Cameron & Kilder
Rio Carnival
Pabllo Vittar
Claudia F

Kelly & Jesse
Neurotypical
Fox Host Trolls Kamala & Doug

Alexis & Chris
Game of Thrones
A Discovery of Witches
Taimi

Hayley & Sam
The Traitors
Onion Earrings
The Crystal Woods (Hayley’s Studio)
Demi Lovato

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State Trooper Sam Stella, Two Wrasslin' Cats owner Mark Thiede, Cottage at Main's Tammy Lee Dunn, and Director of the Brainerd Library Andrew Maloney join Clare to discuss their involvement in the CT State Troopers' Safe Place campaign.

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering. 

Transqat: We Stand.

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Safe Place program (Seattle)
Safe Place program (CT)
CT Hate Crimes Unit
WTNH Safe Place story
FBI Hate Crimes statistics
SRO
Two Wrasslin’ Cat Coffee House
Two Wrasslin’ Cats Accord
New Wrasslin’ Cats Lounge
Protectors of Animals
Nutmeg Veterinary
Mark Henry
Bruno Samartino
Bruno Samartino vs. Larry Zbyszko
Cottage at Main
Southbury Flooding 2024
Laurel Diner
Brainerd Memorial Library
Third Space
STEAM
Moms For Liberty
Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe
Flamer, Mike Curato
Soft Censorship
Transqat Store
Episode 76.1: Executive Orders #1

Clare offers her take on the 1/20/25 Executive Order titled: Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.

Director of Middletown Pride Bree Skowera joins Clare for a deeply heartfelt discussion of her gender journey.

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering. 

Transqat: We Stand.

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Middletown Pride
UK Anti-Immigration Riots
Wesleyan University
DEM/HS Cybersecurity
Stonewall Speakers
PFLAG Hartford
Trans Haven
Wonderland w/ DJ Cheshire Cat
Mittineague Park
Atari 2600
Naughty By Nature, OPP
Slam, Onyx
Nancy Friday, Women On Top
Microfiche/Microfilm
Jem & the Holograms
The Misfits
Zima
IRC
Gratuitous Grease Reference

Kae Ravichandran, a med school student at UVM who plans to specialize in Gender Affirming Care. She's also a marathoner who won the inaugural running of Boston's non-binary category.

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering. 

Transqat: We Stand.

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Kae’s 2023 Boston results
Kae’s 2024 Boston results
Kae’s 2024 New York results
Larner College of Medicine
Dr. Erica Gibson
Elizabeth McDonald, NP
Transqat Episode 47: Dr. Karl Streed
Camp Outright
Tamil Nadu
Jati: The Caste System of India
The Mahabharata
The Ramayana
Compassion fatigue
Point of Pride
The Studio at Millhouse

The Rev. Darrell Goodwin, Executive Conference Minister of the Southern New England Confernece UCC, talks with Clare about hope, justice and the inherent inclusivity of God's house.

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering.

Transqat: We Stand.

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Rev. Darrell Goodwin
SNEUCC
1980s Tape Recorder
Revelations 3:20
Transqat Store
20:45: Obligatory Springsteen Reference
22:30: Inadvertent Rent Reference
Nebraska, not Kansas
Hebrews 11:1
Heaven or Hell Billboard
Find Hope Now

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Author Eliot Schrefer tells Clare all about his new novel, The Brightness Between Us.

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering.

Transqat: We Stand.

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Eliot Schrefer
Popper Penguin Rescue
Mae Jemison
Ambrose as a name
Psychology of the Space Exploration
Hal 9000
Darkness Outside Us Audio audio
Orson Welles
Pageboy Productions
Sense8: Labels are the opposite of understanding
De-Extinction
Earth 2.0
Rev. Darrell Goodwin
Elana K. Arnold

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Join Clare at Pride celebrations in New Haven & Burlington VT.

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering.

Transqat: We Stand.

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Camp Hochelaga (VT)
Transqat Episode 61 (Voices of Pride 2024 Part 1)
Transqat Episode 65 (Voices of Pride 2024 Part 2)
This Is Spinal Tap
2024 Pride Vermont
Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation
Lesbians and Carabiners
Queer People Know Things
Emma Mulvaney-Stanak
Y’all Means All
Tennessee Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation
Creeper from Minecraft
LGBTQ+ in Ghana
Puffs the Play
Elon Musk on JKR
Elon Musk: “Woke Mind Virus”
Vice-President Harris in Ghana
John Dewey Art As Experience
Nomi, Transqat Chief Researcher

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Transition mentor Wendy Cole shares her story and her advice.

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering. 

Transqat: We Stand.

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Wendy Cole
Imposter syndrome
Women Who Push the Limits (book)
Women Over 70 Episode 304 (podcast)
Demystifying the Transgender Journey 
Hal 9000
Clippy
New Hope PA
The Raven
Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell

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Safe Word
Sorority

Excerpts from the PFLAG Northeast Regional Conference, held inn October 2024.

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering.

Transqat: We Stand.

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PFLAG
PFLAG History
Basketball Hall of Fame
Cape Cod Chapter
TQ Episode 54 (Ben Greene)
Ben Greene
PFLAG Portland Maine
Maine Health Gender Clinic
Transqat Episode 30 (Karleigh Webb)
Transposition News
Worldwide Sailing transgender policy
US Chess transgender policy
Dawn Ennis
Frankie de la Creta
The Indiana Fever CT Sun Made Me Feel Unsafe
Sadie Schreiner
Sebastian Coe
Avery Brundage
The Race to Be Myself, Caster Semenya
Transqat Episode 62 (Mack Beggs)
Make It Count, CeCe Telfer
Laura Muir
Keely Hodgkinson
Parker Tirell
Maelle Jacques
Gov. Sununu passes anti-t

Kathy, Diana & Cheryl from the CT chapter of Free Mom Hugs  bring acceptance and love to the show.

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Trevor Project Survey
Free Mom Hugs
Sara Cunningham
Chasten Buttigeig
New Haven Pride Center
SOGIECon 2024
The Green Mile

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Trans youth advocate, author, and friend of the show Tony Ferraiolo returns to talk with Clare about his memoir, Finding My Way Out of the Darkness.

Transqat is a safe space where transgender and queer people can stand together.  We stand for respectful conversations, for open minds and open hearts, for a better understanding. We stand against bigotry, willful ignorance, and fear-mongering. 

Transqat: We Stand.

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Tony Ferraiolo
Transqat Episode 1 (Tony Ferraiolo)
Transqat Episode 29 (A Self-Made Man)
Finding My Way Out of the Darkness
Publish Your Purpose
Self-Made Man
Jim Collins Foundation
Inside Out 2
Gendernauts
2015 & 2022 Trans Surveys
Rev. Aaron Miller
Transqat Episode 51 (Dru Levasseur)

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Xander from Texas ells his story.

Transqat is a safe space for respectful conversations about transgender issues and queer people. Learn more at transqat.com.

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Transqat Episode (Nex Benedict)
Transqat Episode (Mack Beggs)
Xander on Days of Our Lives
Empire
Boys Don’t Cry
Brandon Teena Story
Tubi
Boy Meets Girl
Eastenders
Maya on The Bold & the Beautiful
Pose
Angelica Ross
Paris is Burning
The Aggressives
Montrose Center
Springsteen Endorses Harris/Walz

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