Jonah Welch: Let's Discuss Transgender Spirituality

Jonah tells their journey of being born as a female, not liking the things they were supposed to have interest in and never feeling socially welcome spending time with girls. On a broader social scale, they just wanted to be comfortable as a kid. Their early childhood was couched in nature, going to the country and running around in gym shorts. This led them to a journey of advocating for girls and their freedom to do whatever they wanted without gender norms as well as their life’s work of being a modern trans mystic and artist devoted to

Jonah is an interdisciplinary transgender artist who studies queer theory, trans-feminist theory, and psychoanalytic theory. They makes rosaries and is a modern trans mystic, visual artist, abstract comic, devotional poet, student of medicine, among many others. They are our first transgender guest and we couldn’t be more excited to have them on the podcast.

What we discuss:

02:23 – Introducing Jonah

05:02 – Jonah’s Story

11:02 – Growing Up

17:55 – Treating Boy Bodies and Girl Bodies Differently

20:09 – Body Dysmorphia and Trauma

24:22 – The Process of Taking Hormones

27:27 – The Medicine and Energies

29:51 – Changing of the Body

33:29 – The Miracle of Jonah’s Name

36:30 – The Christian Tradition

41:57 – Divine Androgyny

47:25 – Spirits, Aliens, and the Extraterrestrial World

50:30 – Ignorance Towards the LGBTQIA+ Community

54:53 – Surgeries for Young Children

57:44 – Liberation and Magic in the Pain of Surgery

1:00:41 – Why Did the Creator Create Trans People?

1:04:21 – The Fun Stuff

1:06:53 – Jonah in Behalf of the Divine Mother

1:08:25 – Where to Find Jonah

1:09:42 – Bonus Content

You can find Jonah at his official website, Patreon, and on Instagram.

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