Indy100 Staff
Mar 31, 2018
Meet Jaimie Wilson.
He's a trans musician. He was assigned a female gender at birth, but in 2015 Jaimie began to transition to the gender he identified with. He's been undergoing years of testosterone treatment to achieve that.
21-year-old Jaimie has since been sharing images of how he has changed:
Jaimie wrote on his posts:
At first I was scared to come out as transgender because I didn't give any 'signs' as people say.
I looked and presented very feminine...not because I wanted to but because I felt pressured to make the people around me happy.
When I first came out people tried telling me 'this is not who you are' that's when I realized you are NOT who people think you are...you are who you KNOW you are.
Jaimie is an aspiring country musician who is touring currently, and played London Pride on 8 July.
He'll be playing the Sziget Festival in Hungary on 11-12 August and Pride in Austin, Texas and Fort Myers, Florida.
Images comparing transgender people's transition photos are a popular subject online - the subreddit r/transtimelines has thousands of subscribers and popular images on it are often the centrepiece of news stories online.
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