Podcaster Brings Out the Stars for Transgender Day Of Visibility

Phaylen Fairchild
4 min readMar 30, 2021

You may not have heard of Sarah O’Connell before, but she’s without question one of the hardest working, self made talk show hosts and presenters on YouTube.

Via her YouTube channel, O’Connell, a London native, has interviewed some the biggest names in the entertainment industry as one of the first openly transgender women to host her own chat show. Annually, Miss O’Connell invites celebrities who identify across the spectrum to celebrate and empower the transgender community on Transgender Day of Visibility, and this year, she was joined on video by luminaries across film, television, radio, music, comedy, education and literary worlds to share their support in an hour and a half long special event.

Ben Stiller, Jerry O’Connell, Neil Gaiman, Boy George, Steve Guttenberg, Savage Garden’s Darren Hayes, Dan Reynold’s from Imagine Dragons, David Arquette and nearly 50 other notable figures came together in a one-of-a-kind feature to discuss the importance of trans visibility and what it means to them to be an ally. For several years now, Sarah O’Connell has been the only host to use her platform to present such a powerful and important message of affirmation to the transgender community.

Among the guests is author Tinu Abayomi-Paul who shares her remarkable journey to being a trans ally…

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Phaylen Fairchild

Actor, Filmmaker, LGBTQ+ & Women’s Rights Activist All work copyright phaylens@gmail.com