Theodore

Here’s a moment from his video showing how many of his videos have been demonetized and/or age restricted X 

Here’s another moment from the same video showing how a video with the word “trans” in the title or even just the file name when uploaded is automatically demonetized regardless of the content X

Keep talking about this, don’t let YouTube ignore this, make them acknowledge it, make them fix this.

PHOTOS: Transgender Elders Show Us The Meaning of Survival

In the many years that Jess T. Dugan, a Boston-based trans photographer, has spent capturing images of gender-variant people, she says she’s consistently noticed a striking absence in both art and social sciences: imagery of older trans folks.

“And,” Dugan explains further on her website, “those [representations] that do exist are often one-dimensional.” So Dugan set out to fill this gap, teaming up with social work researcher Vanessa Fabbre since fall 2013 to develop the evocative photo project, “To Survive on This Shore.” In the recently released collection, diverse trans elders ages 50 to 86 are pictured at home or in meaningful spaces, gazing unapologetically into the camera, as if asking the viewer to look deeper into their unique context and life story.

Outside Stonewall Inn / NYC 2-23-17 

Revolutionary period underwear makers Thinx heard your feedback about being more inclusive and are acting accordingly. In addition to raising awareness about trans men and others who get their periods besides women, they’re updating their product line to be more accommodating.

Within three months of coming out as non-binary, I began wearing binders daily, I got informed consent HRT, and as of this writing, I’m six months T.

There is no big jackpot evidence for my transness. I’ve never felt disconnected from my body or my feminine ornamentation. To me, it’s like spending the first half of your life living in hotel rooms; it’s comfy, and you’ve got no qualms against living there. But when you finally go to your own, actual room, and sleep in your own bed, and know that you’ve left your own scent and aura upon this place, it finally hits you what ‘home’ is supposed to feel like. 

It’s got nothing to do with comfort or joy - it’s not a war between the comfortable, safe hotel room and your own shitty, cramped apartment. It was about accepting what feels like ‘home’ for me, and what instead is a stranger. In my eyes, referring to myself as a ‘woman’ is a stranger, and me being non-binary is home. Regardless of what I look like, what I sound like, or what I’m wearing. I am who I am, always.

During the first few months of identifying as trans, I was overwhelmed by the negativity and other people’s presumptions of what it means to be trans. I lacked much of the ‘canonical’ trans experience as popularized by mainstream visibility, so I struggled with the fear that my identity wasn’t legitimate, amongst other worries that bogged up my mind and dragged me down.

Me finally just up and getting HRT and living with the effects helped erase my worries immensely; it was proof that my life wasn’t going to go down in flames because I’m trans. Nowadays, my transness is almost a non-issue for me. It serves mostly as a source of pride.

Pursing medical transition (and beyond) wasn’t a choice made for the sake of alleviating discomfort, or even an attempt to enrich my life. It was more like, ‘yup, I knew I was going to do something like this eventually, might as well start now.’ And through that, transness became pride and love.

a closer look at the New Nintendo 3DS cover plates being released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pokémon on February 27th. It’s currently unclear if they’ll be released outside of Japan, but if they are they may be slightly different as these use the sprites from Pokémon Red & Green rather than our Red & Blue.