Esther Falick

I had to transition because I was like, there's got to be more than this.

I can't just be Josh Gad, please.

You know, like, I'll love Josh Gad.

That just wasn't me.

I was supposed to be, like, Miss Piggy.

Like, I'm a starlet.

You know what I mean?

I think that almost as soon as I got to college, I was like, there is like a comfort that these other musical theater performers have.

They kind of know who they are.

They're like, I want to play those roles.

I was like, no, I'm different than what you guys see me as.

But I just didn't understand it as dysphoria.

Well, so basically then after I graduated, I was like, I don't want to do musical theater anymore.

I want to do comedy.

And I was like, I just want to do something where I feel like I can be more myself.

And in comedy, the possibilities are so wide, you know?

I started doing comedy, but I wasn't, things still weren't really clicking.

So you always think about gender dysphoria, right?

Being like the main clue.

But I would have gender euphoria when instead of calling me handsome, my girlfriend at the time would call me beautiful and it would like fill my lungs with air.