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EPISODE · Oct 3, 2023 · 32 MIN

#1 Samar: My “ Mother” Was Transgender - سمر: كانت والدتي متحوّلة جنسياً

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Send us Fan MailIn this heart-aching podcast, Ricardo Karam conversates with a young girl under the alias of Samar whose story is both sad and uplifting. Her story begins with her parents asking a woman to incubate a child for them because they can’t get pregnant and the lie, they were told about the fetus dying and them losing all hope.Little did they know that out of hopelessness came this young strong rose that against all odds grew from concrete and with her sheer will reunited with them. We embark on this journey with Samar who was raised in a prostitution home with a transgender male as her mother who adopted her just for the sake of being granted Lebanese citizenship and a woman who carried her, pretending she was her grandmother. Samar walks us through parts of her life, her emotional distress as akid, the discovery in her early adolescent years that in fact: this house she is living inis not her house nor the people she thought were her family turning out not to be hertrue parents and the start of the journey of her life to find a better life and reunite withher true family. في هذه البودكاست المؤثّر، يلتقي ريكاردو كرم بشابة لبنانية يافعة "سمر"; ليستمع إلى قصتها المؤلمة والمبهجة في آنٍواحد. تبدأ سمر حكايتها عندما طلب والداها من سيدة أن تحتضن لهما الجنين لأنّ الوالدة البيولوجية لا تستطيع الحمل.وأثناء حملها لها، كذبت وأخبرتهما أنّها فقدت الجنين. أبصرت سمر النور ونشأت في بيت للدعارة مع رجل متحوّلجنسياً اعتبرته والدتها وقد أراد من خلالها الحصول على الجنسية اللبنانية فقط. تصحبنا سمر عبر فصول من حياتها،وعذاباتها وهي طفلة، واكتشافها في سنوات مراهقتها المبكرة أن في الواقع: هذا المنزل الذي تعيش فيه ليس منزلها والأشخاص الذين اعتقدت أنهم عائلتها ليسوا كذلك. 

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Send us Fan Mail In this heart-aching podcast, Ricardo Karam conversates with a young girl under the alias of Samar whose story is both sad and uplifting. Her story begins with her parents asking a woman to incubate a child for them because they can’t get pregnant and the lie, they were told about the fetus dying and them losing all hope.Little did they know that out of hopelessness came this young strong rose that against all odds grew from concrete and with her sheer will reunited with them...

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