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Cat Lindsey

Colorado mother and Motus Theater monologist who performs "Joy to the World" in the What Love Requires project, sharing her journey parenting a transgender daughter.

Sep 29, 2026

2:11
Tell us about your daughter's joy and what it looked like before high school.
2:17
Sure.
2:18
So my daughter showed an aptitude for music from a really early age, and she did not inherit that from me or her dad.
2:25
It definitely came from my father.
2:28
So we had really leaned into, you know, what that was going to look like for her, being a musician first and foremost.
2:38
And when she came out to us, she came out to us with very little fanfare, just kind of mentioned she might be exploring how her identity might differ from what we thought it was.
2:53
And we just kind of shrugged our shoulders and said, okay, we don't know anything about this, but let's go for it.

16 MINS LATER

19:19
But Kat, I'm curious to hear a little bit about how your monologue writing process was and, you know, kind of what the feeling of it was for you.

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