I can scarcely imagine a more exposed, public experience of any kind of transition
than for a mass media broadcaster.
The CBS combination of radio and television for Greater Boston includes, on its staff of veterans on the air, an announcer/broadcaster who made a transition from one gender to another. The name-change and gender-change became public almost two years ago. This professional continued doing the same job, to my knowledge.

Boston's CBS radio station is one of the biggest, most powerful AM radio signals in the area. For untold numbers of driving commuters, this radio station is a metaphorical lighthouse beacon. Roughly every ten minutes, five or six times per drive-time daytime hour, the broadcast delivers the latest conditions in car traffic and in current weather plus short-term weather forecast.

I remember this particular person on both sides of the gender transition.
The job that put the person within my experience, was being up in that helicopter that hovers over the commuter traffic,
updating traffic conditions. Always closing out that little spoken update with the person's own name.

Thus, over the years, I heard the same voice during the radio broadcasts, several times an hour. Only, at one point the person's name changed -- their first name, with the gender change. Before that change, this professional had been on the air, with the CBS radio station, for nineteen years. This post, if this works, will provide a link to one of the news stories on this very public transition.

Kristen Eck, who was born Scott Eck