This is the second conversation with Katy for the podcast.
You can find the first one (episode 16) from October 2020 here.
Episode 116
Another conversation with Katy Jon Went
TRANSGENDER, NON-BINARY, ASEXUAL [POST-GENDER]
1 hr 6 min. Recorded on 17 February 2026.
Katy’s pronouns are they/them, she/her, but tolerates occasional he/hims. They see themselves as a transgender person, identify as non-binary and asexual, and where they’ve landed since our last conversation is post-gender. Find out what that means to Katy in this episode.
We also talk about holding opposing truths, internal comfort over external acceptance, having no surgery regrets, letting go of masks, the context of pronoun use, doing what you have to do to be happy, and arriving at simply being human.
“The internal integration came from a physical change, but the physical change didn’t matter to me in the mirror, or even how others saw me, in the end… it wasn’t a sudden internal ‘oh, you’re now a woman,’ but an internal ‘oh, you’re now whole.'”
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About Katy
Katy Jon Went is a public speaker, educator and campaigner on dialogue, depolarisation and humanisation, sex and gender, neurodiversity, mental health and wellbeing, diversity and inclusion. They have taught on theology, gender, media, unconscious bias, and more, and love rigorous yet reasonable debate and discussion to which they always bring head, heart, honesty, and, often, humour!
They’ve been the subject of BBC, Channel 4 and independent documentaries and have spoken at festivals, universities, global workplaces, and TEDx [watch below]. They were part of the Queer Britain TV series [watch below] and feature regularly on Radio and TV interviews from The Times and GB News to ITV and Channel 5.
For many years they served on their local Pride committee, LGBT History Month, and were part of Stonewall’s engagement with Intersex at the time when it became LGBT. They facilitate a Norfolk-based safe space group for the families of trans people to support each other and have their own parallel journeys to their children and partners.
They are the Head of Methodology of the international Human Library organisation which creates safer braver spaces for engagement across human differences including LGBTQI topics and hundreds of others besides.
In their rare spare time they are to be found creating cocktails, cooking, gardening, books, cats, Dr Martens, playing guitar and piano, languages and travel all feature.
You can find out more about Katy on their website katyjon.com and on Facebook, X @katyjon, Instagram @katyjonwent, Bluesky @katyjonwent, or LinkedIn.