Dose of Depth
Welcome to Dose of Depth. I’m your host, Deborah Lukovich, PhD, and I invite you into conversations that explore the field between us.
Together we’ll examine dreams, relationships, creativity, leadership, organizations, and the ordinary moments that quietly reshape our lives. Through stories, conversations, and depth psychology, we’ll ask not only why something happened, but why now and what is trying to emerge through our experience.
This podcast is for people who sense that life is always speaking through relationships, conflict, attraction, loss, joy, and the unexpected synchronicities that seem to appear at just the right time. We’re less interested in having the right answers than in cultivating the conditions where new understanding can emerge.
Some episodes may offer a profound insight. Others may make you laugh at the strange symbolism of your own life.
I hope that each conversation helps you become more psychologically sovereign, more available to your own unfolding, and more aware of what is ripening in the field between you, others, and the world.
So pull up a chair. Let’s explore what is trying to emerge.
Dr. Deborah
Dose of Depth
Do You Know a Trans Person? A Chat w/Aaron Baker, Transgender Activist
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In this episode, I have a conversation with Aaron Baker, dedicated transgender activist and social media influencer. She focuses on sharing the joy of the trans experience, along with clarifying the history, science, and origins of the concepts of gender and sex. Her profiles, @aaronbaker and @aaronbaker.joy, have earned her a significant following, with her videos reaching over 5 million views. Her most popular videos are about parenting LGBTQ children and the problems with Georgia SB 140 (the bill that bans gender affirming care for minors.)
I found Aaron on Instagram. One of her videos came up and I think she was sharing an experience that day of going into a store and getting looks from people. I was moved by her honest and vulnerable sharing of feeling hurt by how others treated her just because of what she looked like. At the same time, her courage was on full display. I started following her, offering encouraging comments, complimenting her on hair, makeup, dresses. Over time, you could see how transitioning to her gender caused her to blossom and be happier. Who could be against that?
Trans people are one of many groups that are targeted and discriminated against simply because they do not conform to social norms.
As with other groups that over time became accepted and embraced, Aaron knows the formula goes something like this: exposure leads to empathy, which leads to acceptance, which leads to improved civil rights outcomes.
On the other hand, we are living through a time that warns us that the rights of once marginalized groups are never to be taken for granted. In fact, much progress for women’s right to self-determination has been reversed and women are dying and suffering because of the violent last stand of rigid and stagnant misogynist beliefs.
So, Aaron is one brave soul. Enjoy our chat!
A great resource for beginners - The Gender Dysphoria Bible
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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