Hello everyone! It’s my pleasure to be able to introduce you to one of the most interesting human beings I have ever had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with, Maia Poet. If you liked this, well you’re in luck. We did a part 2 on her channel! https://youtu.be/skk0-tNtvkI?si=uGFlOCPv4p-ouQO9

and here is her Twitter: https://x.com/thepeacepoet99?s=21

Maia is so cool and fun, there is definitely more to come from both of us. Hope you enjoy. :)

Chapters
0:00 introducing myself (and my cat) (and maia)
2:40 how maia became a communist
6:32 maia’s hyper-fixations began with Guinness book of world records tallest people
8:40 how elle escaped the baggage of three self-deletion attempts and mental hospital stays by transitioning, until “the timer went off, the time capsule was dug up”
14:37 maia summarizes this with “distress gets fossilized”. pushing discomfort away until surgery/hormones means lots of emotion and trauma to deal with during detransition
17:41 maia expands on this by opening up about dealing with breast dysphoria during her desistance process
18:58 elle on starting over in life, 5 years of detransition, “living the life of a trans woman but in reverse”
21:45 maia gives a pep talk. “progress isn’t linear - just keep swimming.”
24:48 why so many modern young people struggle with mental illness. “this is very unnatural.”
26:40 maia explains why transgenderism easily infiltrated western civilization
28:57 maia used her trans identity to become more comfortable with her masculinity
29:32 SPECIAL INTERMISSION: HOW TO MAKE BOWTIES AT HOME
31:10 maia didn’t know she was gay because she didn’t know what “crushes” were (she thought that was just orange soda)
32:55 dramatic reenactment of maia touching her crush for the first time
35:10 maia’s parents took her to the doctor because she had a crush on a girl
37:24 elle asks maia if she had friends in school (what a savage)
38:40 maia latches onto a group of boys in middle school because girls made her too nervous
39:25 maia and her male peer group pranked the teacher to make the girls laugh (according to her post-hoc rationalization)
40:17 maia thinks girls have complicated social rules - but the boys accepted her
43:00 maia’s introduction to ellen + wanting to dress like male peers = searching the internet for female to male sex changes
44:34 i was a girly girl as a child, so what changed?
48:00 lack of good adult female role models leading to teen ftm identity, trying to become your own role model
54:42 maia just needed a butch lesbian role model
55:57 when maia transitioned in israel she passed as a man without medicalizing… but detransitioning opened up the time capsule
58:10 elle asks maia one last question: “if you could say one thing to a young trans person with a similar life story to you, who’s wondering what to do, what would you say to them?”
1:05:07 slow clap for maia
1:05:14 outro (check out maia’s channel for part 2 https://youtu.be/skk0-tNtvkI?si=uGFlOCPv4p-ouQO9)