A Life Lived Trans

A Life Lived Trans is a podcast hosted by Mardi P. and Lenny Z., two trans elders who have been transitioning collectively for close to 100 years (yes, that is one whole-ass century)! Each week, they are bringing you their stories of what it was like transitioning in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s. For full episodes and to support our hosts, please visit our Patreon page.

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Episodes

Tuesday Jul 22, 2025

Howdy y'all it's tr**ny tuesday so we're here with another beautiful episode of A Life Lived Trans! The ONLY podcast with two aged transsexuals who have certainly seen it all before! 
This is a free preview, if you want to hear the full episode then you'll want to head over to our Patreon!
This week we're talking about TRANScending trauma with healing modalities and that extensively ponsy name hopefully goes a way to describe to woowoo we'll be covering today, specifically how we have healed after our lives lived trans with came with their fair share of trauma! To wrap it up, this week, join us in a brief meditation to help you allign your chakras. 
Follow your hosts Mardi & Lenny!
A Life Lived Trans is a Diva Down production, produced by Carmen & Carly.

Tuesday Jul 15, 2025

Hello and WELCOME to A Life Lived Trans!
This is a free preview, if you want to hear the full episode then you'll want to head over to our Patreon!
Dating can be hard when you're a doll or an action man, from navigating different issues, working with different parts, or just having to content with the complex emotions that often arise, and difficult conversations! 
This week we're talking all about relations lovely and not so. From early formational hookups to long term romance, and even the boinking of a celebrity, join your trans elders in exploring the world of love sex and romance whilst trans! 
We hope you enjoy this episode, and be sure to support us on our Patreon to listen to the whole episode! where you can listen to all our paid episodes!
Follow your hosts Mardi & Lenny!
A Life Lived Trans is a Diva Down production, produced by Carmen & Carly.

Monday Jul 07, 2025

Happy Tuesday!
This week we're talking about healthcare, from Doctor Longjohn, and freezers full of horse piss through to trying to get healthcare as a trans elder and the perpetual cycle of explaining yourself to doctors in a way that a three year old would understand.
With healthcare coming under attack from reactionaries at the moment, it's good to remember that trans healthcare is not experimental! For decades we have been taking hormones, going through sex changing / gender affirming surgeries, and living to tell the tale!
Anyhoo: enjoy the show!
Follow your hosts Mardi & Lenny!
A Life Lived Trans is a Diva Down production, produced by Carmen & Carly.

ALLT 9: TRANSferable skills

Tuesday Jul 01, 2025

Tuesday Jul 01, 2025

Good morning working divas, working dolls, and working action men!
This week we're talking about SURVIVAL WORK, that's right expect a no-holds-barred discussion about the not so beautiful world of working the stroll and making your bag, yes gawd.
What we have have to do to survive our life lived trans experience, is sometimes not a beautiful and wonderful experience, but it's our history, and for us, there is beauty AND value in remembering what we had to be here today.
TLDR Sex work is work, decriminalise sex work now but also OMG IT'S LOWKEY RLLY BAD FOR SOME OF US.
Chile anyways, enjoy the show! 💅
Follow your hosts Mardi & Lenny!

Tuesday Jun 24, 2025

You don't pay her!
This weeks episode is a PAID episode, meaning unelss you are listening on our Patreon you will only be hearing the first 10 minutes of our 45 minute long conversation! Head over there to get the full tea, or even see our beautiful faces on video!
In this episode we're talking about hormones, not the oldest profession, but the things that pump through our bodies and determine everything from how we look to how we smell! From self medicating through to what they change about us and how they interact with our internal processes, they're so fun!
And yes, this HAS been your reminder, have you taken your hormones today?!?!?!
We hope you enjoy this episode, and be sure to support us on our Patreon to listen to the whole episode! where you can listen to all our paid episodes!
Follow your hosts Mardi & Lenny!
A Life Lived Trans is a Diva Down production, produced by Carmen & Carly.

Monday Jun 16, 2025

Y'all better quiet down!!!!
This weeks episode is a PAID episode, meaning unelss you are listening on our Patreon you will only be hearing the first 10 minutes of our 45 minute long conversation! Head over there to get the full tea, or even see our beautiful faces on video!
In this episode we're talking Pride and Prejudice, no not the book, but the experience of pride throughout our trans history! From the iconic Sylvia Rivera "Y'all better quiet down" speech at the Christopher Street Liberation Day event, through to the increasingly fractured community of LGBTQIA+ people we live amongst today, join your hosts in exploring everything Pride, and Prejudice! 
 
We hope you enjoy this episode, and be sure to support us on our Patreon to listen to the whole episode! where you can listen to all our paid episodes!
Follow your hosts Mardi & Lenny!
A Life Lived Trans is a Diva Down production, produced by Carmen & Carly.

Tuesday Jun 10, 2025

This weeks episode is a PAID episode, meaning unelss you are listening on our Patreon you will only be hearing the first 10 minutes of our 45 minute long conversation! Head over there to get the full tea, or even see our beautiful faces on video!
In this episode Mardi brags about her famous friends, Lenny and Mardi discuss what it’s like to exist as a trans elder on social media and how they cope with hate and abuse emenating from the screens on their space machines, and Lenny tries to think of a current trans female pop star that isn’t Kim Petras.
 
We hope you enjoy this episode, and be sure to support us on our Patreon to listen to the whole episode! where you can listen to all our paid episodes!
Follow your hosts Mardi & Lenny!
A Life Lived Trans is a Diva Down production, produced by Carmen & Carly.

Tuesday Jun 03, 2025

HELLO: and welcome to A Life Lived Trans, with your hosts, Mardi & Lenny! 
In this FREE episode (only the first episode of each month is free going forward!) we're slicing AND dicing, and talking all about gender affirming surgeries, or as we called them in our day... SEX CHANGE SURGERIES. From clitoroplasties that don't take, if trans men or trans women have it better, to crusty capsules growing around breast implants, and what it's like to have top surgery as a trans guy! We also dare to dream of a world where neovagina doesn't need to be stretched out all the time! IF ONLY.
We hope you enjoy this episode, and be sure to support us on our Patreon where you can listen to all our paid episodes! After our first 4 episodes go live, only 1 episode a month is available for free to you'll want to snatch that trophy (subscribe to our Patreon) to get all the goods! 
Follow your hosts Mardi & Lenny!
A Life Lived Trans is a Diva Down production, produced by Carmen & Carly.

Tuesday May 27, 2025

HELLO: and welcome to A Life Lived Trans, with your hosts, Mardi & Lenny! 
In this FREE episode we dive into everything mothers (because we recorded this episode on Mother's Day) and the things we do for them, from wearing dresses when you've transitioned into being a man, to balancing books on your head and mincing around the room. We also talk about the emotional response Mardi had after receiving a copy of the 40th Anniversary Blu Ray of Hookers On Davie, and Lenny asks "how can we meet our higher selves?!". 
We hope you enjoy this episode, and be sure to support us on our Patreon where you can listen to all our paid episodes! After our first 4 episodes go live, only 1 episode a month is available for free to you'll want to snatch that trophy (subscribe to our Patreon) to get all the goods! 
Follow your hosts Mardi & Lenny!
A Life Lived Trans is a Diva Down production, produced by Carmen & Carly.

Tuesday May 20, 2025

HELLO: and welcome to A Life Lived Trans, with your hosts, Mardi & Lenny! 
In this FREE episode we dive into how we came to learn we were trans, reading about the magical transition of Christine Jorgensen in gossip magazines! We talk about what binds us together, and how despite growing up in different countries and travelling in different directions our stories are eerily similar! Mardi also talks about her yearning for some jiggle in her youth and Lenny tries to convince Mardi to lift weights!
We hope you enjoy this episode, and be sure to support us on our Patreon where you can listen to all our paid episodes! After our first 4 episodes go live, only 1 episode a month is available for free to you'll want to snatch that trophy (subscribe to our Patreon) to get all the goods! 
Follow your hosts Mardi & Lenny!
A Life Lived Trans is a Diva Down production, produced by Carmen & Carly.

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