The phrase "things aren't always what they seem" has never been more true for what we have in store for you in this article. You will meet some individuals who say that gender doesn't define who you are.Shawn Stinson that the trans bodybuilding worlds sees today a magazine cover boy, confident, relaxed and outgoing. Before he becoming a personal trainer and a bodybuilder, Shawn Stinson was a Marine and a DJ.
"I was born as a girl, and I think I'm not happy with the gender. My definition of transgender people is means born in the wrong body. In Iraq, I chose to work outside place, I paied much attention on my chest. I was transitioning without really knowing I was transitioning." He says.
Shawn Stinson was once a soldier in the Prime Marine Corps from 1998-2005. He is a 35 years old transgender male who is originally from Peoria, IL but resides in Atlanta, GA. In the 2010, when watching a special show on TV about a trans man, he realized that he was not the only one. It was at that point, he came to understand ans be able to put a name to what he was, a transgender man. Once he realized this, he began medically transitioning by starting hormone on 2011. Shawn Stinson works outside in an Atlanta gym before joining the competition, upper left. Shawn Stinson wins the first place for the second year in a row at the FTM World Fitness Competition in Atlanta. Shawn Stinson had his breasts removed in 2007. He is working out in an Atlanta gym before the second annual FTM bodybuilding competition. Shawn won first place in last year's competition.
Loren's Journey to become male and a successful photographer crossed paths in 1993, as he began this career by capturing his own personal evolution. This soon developed into a photographic series of other transsexuals in his critically acclaimed book body alchemy: Transsexual Portraits. He says his images help empower the transgendered and educate the non-transgendered.
Most probably remembered Thomas as the world's first "pregnant man". Thomas decided to start taking male hormones in his mid-twenties, but wanted to keep his female sex organs so that he and his wife who was not able to conceive, could have a child. But they want to have more kids. They since have had three children together.
Yvonne Buschbaum was Germany's leading Olympic female pole vaulter in the early 2000's. Balian was forced to givr up his athletic career because of the medical implications of hormone therapy, and in 2008 he underwent gender reassignment surgery to complete his transformation.
As a stand-up comedian, Ian often uses his experiences as a transsexual in his act and has even been cast in a golden globe winning amazon TV series called "transparent". So, for those who doubted his decisions in the past, it is certainly Ian who is getting the last laugh.
Rocco is considered as the first openly transgender singer in hip-hop. In fact, he seems himself as a musical missionary of sorts. Music provides this transgender hip-hop artist a stage to help educate others about being transgender.