Ren Brady (RB)

Honestly, I didn’t realize it at the time, but it was in Elementary school when I would pretend to be Sam, because Sam could be anyone, and to me that meant I could be the nonbinary boy I didn’t get to be in regular life. It was my opportunity to imagine a world where I could be trans without knowing that’s what I was doing.

I’ve gotten most of my resources, support, and community from following various transmascs on Instagram. I get to see so many different people be transmasc in so many different ways and it expanded my understanding of what it could mean to be transmasc, especially how I could reclaim my effeminate qualities as extensions of my masculinity.