Lee Wade
Opening Doors FellowLee Wade is a Community Voices Producer at WYSO, and a 2025 Public Media Journalists Association Opening Doors Fellow—one of ten BIPOC journalism students selected nationwide for the competitive program. He created Translucent, a WYSO series amplifying transgender voices and stories of identity in Ohio.
Wade is a graduate of Antioch College, where he studied Interdisciplinary Arts and Creative Practice with a focus on audio journalism. He has contributed to WYSO Youth Radio and The Race Project, and previously produced the Living With Psychosis Podcast for Students With Psychosis.
Email: lwade@wyso.org
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For the last episode of the season, Translucent host Lee Wade talks to Ellie Krug, the transgender host of The Illegal Trans Woman in the Twin Cities. -
Host Lee Wade highlights TransOhio, an Ohio-based nonprofit working statewide to support the rights and visibility of trans and gender-diverse people. -
Translucent host Lee Wade talks with a physician about what happens when gender-affirming care is interrupted or denied, and why starting and stopping treatment can do real harm. -
Translucent host Lee Wade talks to Gage Gatlyn, co-founder of a local grassroots group turning support into action for transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people. -
In this episode of Translucent, Lee Wade talks with a local speech therapist about the importance of voice in transgender lives. -
Translucent host Lee Wade talks to Iden Crockett, a trans woman who came out in her early 40s while married, raising kids, and working as a firefighter. -
A Yellow Springs documentary is giving a local trans woman the chance to tell her own story, in her own words. The film is screening on Transgender Day of Visibility. -
In this episode of Translucent, we meet a researcher studying the lives of transgender young people, who shares what families can do to better support their growth and wellbeing. -
In last week's episode of Translucent, we met Eddie Clark, a young trans man. In this episode, hear from his parents, Eric and Jackie, as they reflect on raising a trans son and the journey their family has taken together. -
On this episode of Translucent, host Lee Wade speaks with the Clark family, whose lives change when they learn that their child is trans.
