Griffin Hansberry

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This American Life · 893: Testosterone · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

And it's very much like a little aggressive move.

I've had men, just sort of angry guys, walk down the street, just body check me.

So I really feel like I have to sort of puff myself up so that people will keep their distance a little bit.

But if I'm off guard and I'm walking around and I'm sort of enjoying the scenery, it's pretty much guaranteed that somebody will shove me.

I think that the main thing that you hope for, that one hopes for, and that I hope for when starting testosterone was to pass as male, to be perceived by the world as a man.

But I do have a sort of love-hate relationship with passing that my whole deeper self becomes invisible and my history becomes invisible and...

You know, I think that's hard.

It's a hard place to be.

Right, right.

Especially because when I got my first job as a man, I didn't know anything about my past.

It was very corporate.

So I sort of had to let go of any edgy...

clothing and facial hair and whatnot that I had before, and I became really boring.

I mean, I felt like, wow, people must think I'm really boring if they only knew that I'm so fascinating.

Throughout those almost four years, I had to conceal a lot.

I would lie about where I went to college because I went to Bryn Mawr, and I couldn't say I went to Bryn Mawr.

What college did you say you went to?

Well, Bryn Mawr is in a bi-college relationship with Haverford College.

And so I would say I went to Haverford, which is kind of...

I don't want to say anything bad about Haverford.

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