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Janet Mock

Transgender advocate, television host, and New York Times bestselling author of Redefining Realness, sharing her personal journey and perspectives on authenticity and gender.

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Oct 8, 2025 • 37min

Super Soul Special: Janet Mock: Redefining Realness

Janet Mock, a transgender advocate and bestselling author, shares her transformative journey of self-acceptance and authenticity. She discusses the complexities of her early experiences with gender identity and the impact of societal expectations. From childhood struggles to her first authentic presentations, Janet emphasizes the importance of speaking your truth. She challenges media narratives surrounding transgender identities and highlights the significance of love and understanding in healing. Her insights inspire a deeper conversation about gender, identity, and the quest for realness.
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Jun 12, 2024 • 37min

Super Soul Special: Janet Mock: Redefining Realness

Janet Mock, a transgender advocate and author, shares her journey of self-discovery and the importance of embracing one's true self. She discusses redefining realness beyond LGBTQ+ communities, navigating gender norms in childhood, and the significance of acceptance, family, and spirituality in her transformation.
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Mar 14, 2023 • 25min

Trans Activist Janet Mock Finds Her Voice

Janet Mock first heard the word “māhū,” a Native Hawaiian word for people who exist outside the male-female binary, when she was twelve. She had just moved back to Oahu, where she was born, from Texas, and, by that point, Mock knew that the gender she presented as didn’t feel right. “I don’t like to say the word ‘trapped,’ ” Mock tells The New Yorker’s Hilton Als. “But I was feeling very, very tightly contained in my body.”  Eventually, Mock left Hawaii for New York, where she worked as an editor for People magazine. “[Everyone was] bigger and louder and smarter and bolder than me,” she tells Als. “So, in that sense, I could kind of blend in.” After working at People for five years, she came out publicly as trans; since then, she has emerged as a leading voice on trans issues. She’s written two books, produced a documentary, and signed a deal with Netflix. In 2018, she became the first trans woman of color to be hired as a writer on a TV series—Ryan Murphy’s FX series “Pose,” which just concluded its final season. This story originally aired January 4, 2019

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