If you know you're different, but you don't want anyone else to notice, what do you do? When Kath Ebbs was growing up and coming to terms with their sexuality and gender, they used homophobia and transphobia as a defence to try and convince others they were straight.

Kath grew up in a Catholic house and school. They didn't know what the LGBT acronym stood for but they did know when they made out with their female friends at parties, they liked it. They also knew it was wrong.

In this episode, Kath shares with Sean about what scared them so much about being a lesbian, dating a trans person and coming out as non-binary after practicing transphobia as a teenager and how religion taught them to be more compassionate in their activism.

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