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Sometimes change is a good thing, sometimes the wait is a must and often times we reflect where we started. ❤️ @ftmmagazine @ftmthoughts @ftmtopsurgery @ftmtransgendersupport @ftm @transgender @transitiontransmission @transquotes @transmanconfessions @transtipsfortranspeople

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3 Months post op. I’m a v. happy boy 😊 @ftmmagazine @ftmthoughts @ftmtopsurgery @ftmtransgendersupport @transtipsfortranspeople @transgender @transitiontransmission @transmanconfessions

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Yo, a friend of mine made an amazing list about imortant and historical trans men!

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A list of historical (and some recent) trans men since everyone likes to ignore the fact that we did in fact exist before Chaz Bono came out

(TW: transphobia, obviously, and r*pe)

• Hatshepsut (1479 - 1458 BC) Hatshepsut was a female Egyptian pharaoh, who went to great lengths to present as a man, wearing male clothing and a fake beard, took on wives, and used both male and female pronouns. Though it cannot be definitively said if Hatshepsut was a trans man or not, a lot of the evidence points to that being the case.

• Anonymous Man (16th century) Henri Estienne wrote of a FTM man who was burned alive for living as a man, learning a trade, and taking a wife. The man was outed by someone who recognized him from their hometown and when given the option between death and living as a woman, the man chose death.

• Jospeh Lobdell (1829 - 1912) A frontier man and skilled marksman who lived on the frontier with his wife before being locked in an asylum for insisting that he was a man. Scholars used to label him as a lesbian before it was revealed by his own writings that he more likely was in fact a trans man.

• Reed Erickson (1912 - 1992) After inheriting his father’s fortune in 1962 and after transitioning in 1963, Erickson launched the Erickson Educational Foundation in 1964 and through that laid the foundation for several trans activism organizations like the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Paul Walker’s Janus Information Service, Sister Mary Elizabeth’s and Jude Patton’s J2CP, and several others. He was also an alternate health practices supporter and funded research on homeopathy and acupuncture.

• Billy Tipton (1914 - 1989) An American jazz musician from 1936 to 1970, Tipton began presenting as male full time in 1940, with only his two cousins knowing his assigned gender. To avoid explaining his breasts and his lack of package, he would tell women that he had been in a serious car accident that resulted in damaged genitals and broken ribs that he had to keep wrapped constantly. No one knew he was trans until he died and and it was revealed by the autopsy.

• Dr. Alan L. Hart (1890 - 1962) An American physician, radiologist, TB researcher, writer and novelist. Alan L. Hart was one of the first trans men to have a hysterectomy and a gonadectomy in the US and his research on TB detection saved thousands of lives. He presented as a boy as a child and was encouraged by his grandparents and parents to do so, and was listed as his grandparent’s grandson in their obituaries. He’s was recorded as always begging to cut his hair, wear boy clothes, and would refer to himself as a boy as a child. He’s the first documented trans man in the united states. His doctor who helped with his transition described him as “extremely intelligent and not mentally ill, but afflicted with a mysterious disorder for which I have no explanation” and said that “from a sociological and psychological standpoint [Hart] is a man”. Not only was he a man of medicine but he was also a fiction writer, and such a lot of his fiction writing reflected his own experiences and feelings.

• Michael Dillon (1915 - 1962) The first FTM person to have a phalloplasty. He’s also believed to be the first FTM person to undergo hrt. While in the hospital with a head injury he met a plastic surgeon who gave him a double mastectomy and a note to help get his birth certificate changed. Dillon performed SRS on Roberta Cowell, the first British trans woman to receive SRS, but because Dillon had not completed his medical training the surgery was considered illegal. Later on he ended up devoting the rest of his life to Buddhism in India.

• “Little Axe” Broadnax (1916 - 1992) Little Axe was an American gospel singer. I couldn’t find much on his personal life, but he was apart of several gospel groups between the 1940’s and 1980’s. He was not discovered to be trans until his death in 1992.

• Lou Sullivan (1951 - 1991) An American author and activist, and also one of the first trans men to publicly identify as gay. He’s heavily credited to the modern understanding of gender identity and sexuality being different things. As a child, he would write in his journal about being confused about his identity, and expressed his ideas of wishing he were a man and wanting to be a gay man there from a young age. He moved away from Milwaukee in 1975 to San Francisco so he could have easier access to not only hrt but a more understanding community. His family was supportive of this move and gave him a man’s suit and his grandfather’s pocket watch as going away presents. In San Francisco, he lived openly as a gay trans man but was denied SRS constantly because of his sexuality, since at the time trans people were expected to adhere to a more heterosexual lifestyle. He finally had SRS in 1986. He was diagnosed as HIV positive in the same year, and said afterwards: “I took a certain pleasure in informing the gender clinic that even though their program told me I could not live as a Gay man, it looks like I’m going to die like one.” As an adult he was active in the Gateway Gender Alliance, which was one of the first educational organizations that offered support for FTM people. He was an editor for The Gateway, a newsletter with “news and information on transvestism and transsexualism” that originally primarily focused on MTF issues, but started to also talk about FTM issues under his editing. He was a founding member of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, he founded FTM International - an organization specifically for trans men - and was a huge advocate for gay trans men, and gay trans people in general. He ended up passing due to HIV related complications.

• Brandon Teena (1972 - 1993) TW: r*pe, assault/violence, murder

Brandon Teena was raped and murdered at age 21 for being trans. He asserted that he was male from a young age and began identifying as a man during adolescence. He would constantly reject school dress code by dressing masculinely. When he was 18 he tried to join the US army but failed to enter after listing his sex as male. In 1993 he began living as a man full time and associating with John L. Lotter, Tom Nissen, and Lana Tisdel. During a Christmas Eve party, Nissen and Lotter forced Brandon to pull down his pants revealing that he was trans. They forced him into a car, drove to a nearby meat packing plant, and raped him. They then took him to Nissen’s house, where they told Brandon to shower, allowing him to escape out the bathroom window and to Tinsel’s house. They went to the ER where while Brandon was having a rape kit done, he was asked invasive, rude, and unnecessary questions about him being trans so they left. When Nissen and Lotter found out about the police report and rape kit they started a hunt for Brandon, and eventually found him on December 31st when they shot and killed him and the two other people in the house where he was staying. Brandon was also stabbed in the chest to ensure he was dead. He’s had two movies made on his life a documentary called The Brandon Teena Story and movie called Boys Don’t Cry.

Some more recent trans men include:

• Thomas Beatie - in 2007 was the first trans man to become pregnant through artificial insemination after finding out his wife was infertile.

• Balian Buschbaum - a former German pole-vaulting champion. He competed during the early 2000s and retired in 2007 to transition

• Chaz Bono - son of Sonny and Cher, he is a writer, musician, and activist

• Ian Harvie - a comedian and actor, he was in Transparent and Roadtrip Nation

• Buck Angel - a former adult film star and producer, and is now a trans activist, writer, and speaker

There are obviously many, many other well known current trans guys out there, but those are just some ✌️

The history of trans guys is often overlooked and/or forgotten, so hopefully you learned something from this

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Be with someone who you can giggle with in the shower with absolutely no sexual interaction necessary.

Be with someone you can talk to about absolutely anything.

Be with someone who will hold you and talk you down and fight your demons with you when it becomes too hard to do on your own.

Be with someone who comes home from a long day at work and still wraps you up in their arms as if it’s what they’ve been waiting for all day long.

Be with someone who kisses you on the forehead and the cheek even if you’re sick.

Be with someone who thinks that you are beautiful even when you have no makeup on and your hair is a mess.

Be with someone who offers to help you.

Be with someone who gives you sex eyes even when you’re doing something as simple as cooking because they can’t get enough of you.

If you find someone who can give you all of that and more… my God do not let them go.

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Be with someone who you can giggle with in the shower with absolutely no sexual interaction necessary.

Be with someone you can talk to about absolutely anything.

Be with someone who will hold you and talk you down and fight your demons with you when it becomes too hard to do on your own.

Be with someone who comes home from a long day at work and still wraps you up in their arms as if it’s what they’ve been waiting for all day long.

Be with someone who kisses you on the forehead and the cheek even if you’re sick.

Be with someone who thinks that you are beautiful even when you have no makeup on and your hair is a mess.

Be with someone who offers to help you.

Be with someone who gives you sex eyes even when you’re doing something as simple as cooking because they can’t get enough of you.

If you find someone who can give you all of that and more… my God do not let them go.

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