Trans man takes a selfie every day for almost 3 years to document transition
Jamie Raines, 21, posted a video showing his transition
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Your support makes all the difference.A British student has documented his transition from a woman to a man with a selfie every day for the past three years.
Jamie Raines, 21, was 18 when he started taking testosterone. He decided to document his transition, ending up with 1,400 selfies - and a plan to continue documenting the changes.
Mr Raines' experiences have been featured on a Channel 4 documentary (Girls to Men, Channel 4, Tuesday at 10pm), but he has also published his own video of the transition - along with other discussing different facets of what it is like to transition - on his personal YouTube.
"I've been incredibly surprised by the reaction, and rather overwhelmed by all the positive comments," he told The Independent.
“I just wanted something for me to document my transition. I thought I’d take a photo every day so when I strung it all together you could see the changes.
“Within the first six months you didn’t see that much but as time went on it became more and more rewarding,” he told Buzzfeed News.
Mr Raines said his family had been “really supportive and really excited for me because of the changes".
“My mum thinks this was always how I was supposed to be. She doesn’t feel like she’s lost a daughter, because I’m the same person to her – I’m still her child, but now I’m just her son.”
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