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Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Coming Out and Trans Men in the Media with Jackson Bird

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8651 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week, Hannah is joined by YouTuber and author Jackson Bird. Jackson talks about his experience coming out as a trans man at age 25, and what his experience of transitioning publicly was like. They also chat about how trans men and women are portrayed in the mainstream media, and the differences in this representation. Jackson opens up about his previous misconceptions around gender identity and sexuality, with him and Hannah discussing cancel culture. Finally, Jackson shares about the dysphoria some trans men experience, and where he found his trans representation.

Jackson: https://twitter.com/jackisnotabird

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0:00.0

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0:02.0

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0:27.7

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0:30.0

This like cis straight girl who makes a lot of educational content for queer issues.

0:35.6

And it was my sort of like outlet.

0:36.8

I think not.

0:38.3

Yeah, exactly.

0:39.3

I know, right.

0:40.3

Welcome to doing it with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating, and our bodies. Welcome back. So recently I was in New York and I had the pleasure, the privilege, of sitting down and having a chat with Jackson Bird, who is a YouTuber and now author.

1:08.2

And we sat and we chatted about what it was like for him to publicly transition online.

1:15.6

He'd been making videos on LGBTQ plus issues and then at 25 came out as trans.

1:23.3

We talked about how when he was younger because of the lack of trans representation that he had seen and that he had grown up with in Texas, he had different ideas about what it meant to be trans and about what it is to be queer and trans and what it was like for him to discover that that was possible, that you didn't have to pick between one or the other, that you could be trans and what it was like for him to discover that that was possible that you didn't have to

1:44.7

pick between one or the other that you could be trans and queer. It was amazing to have just

1:50.7

such a thoughtful and honest conversation. We chatted about being open about problematic

1:58.8

past thoughts and opinions based on how you were brought up or

2:03.1

where you grew up and how people shouldn't be punished for maybe thinking one thing or another

2:08.2

if that was how they were raised and it's about what you do going forwards after you learn

2:13.5

that maybe those thoughts or ideas were wrong. We also discussed why it might be that off the top of my head,

2:21.6

I can name several famous mainstream celebrity trans women,

2:28.2

but I can't name any trans men of the same celebrity status

2:33.6

and what the difference in experience might be between

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