Hi, my name is Chase Ross
And this is going to be a video series on Trans 101. If you're here you probably know somebody who's transgender?
And you're just wondering what's going on. What's going on with them. What is all this trans stuff going on?
Somebody might have just come out to you. Maybe you know somebody at work. Who's coming out. Maybe you're just curious
Maybe you're hate trans people, and you're like might as well
Just get educated on what I hate. Whatever the reason is:
Welcome, all right, and in this playlist you will find 31 videos of very basic Trans 101
topics that I will be explaining in depth
but in a short amount of time. Just to give you a little preview, some of the topics will include: "What is transgender?"
"What is dysphoria?"
"Different types of surgeries that individuals can have"
"Hormone replacement therapy"
"Hormone blockers"
"Transgender children" and then "Different type of prosthetics that trans people can use".
So this is meant to be for friends, families, allies, partners, but it's also meant for people who are questioning
and are not sure if they're trans or
for people who are trans and are just wondering about certain little different things that maybe they didn't know about.
I am going to go in-depth about bottom surgery and not many people know about bottom surgery even in this community
So that's something that might be interesting to people who are trans. So basically this video series is for everyone
Yeah, so let me introduce myself like I said my name is Chase Ross. I run this channel here
I've been on Youtube for 10 years. I am 26 years old
I have been on Hormone replacement therapy or testosterone for seven years
I had top surgery four years ago, and I don't represent the entire Trans community. The reason I disclaimer
this is because there's a lot of information out there and one trans person does not equate all
Trans People's experiences
And it's like that for every single minority group in the entire world
Why not you decide to do this series?
Well, I get questions every single day from people, and it's not that I don't want to answer those questions
Is that I thought that maybe making this trans 101?
Series might help people answer questions that they don't have answers to or questions
I didn't even know they had. I will say that in the future. I will be making another series trends 201
I guess where it's more advanced for answer questions that you all have actually asked me that are very
Specific and these will be related to like hormones
And will be related to like teen and coming out when you're under 18 and stuff like that
So look after that in the next couple of months, but for now enjoy this series and enjoy this playlist and please let me know
What you think without further ado let's start with number one. What is transgender?
So you've probably heard of transgender in the media a lot lately, and you're probably like what does it even mean?
I have all these outdated notions of what trans people mean. Well, I'm here to let you know what it is. What is transgender?
Well, it is somebody whose gender identity does not match the gender. They were assigned at birth
So what does assigned gender even mean? well when you were born and the doctor or nurse who ever?
Looked at your genitals, and they saw penis and they said oh my God, it's a boy!
I mean, they did say oh my God, but they just said it's a boy! everyone's so excited blue here all of these
Stereotypes that are attributed to men here be masculine play sports be dominant all of these things were now attributed to this one
Baby when that baby grows up and is a toddler, or a child, or a teen, or an adult?
Some individuals all right inside feel that's the gender that they were assigned
So in this example because you have a penis you are a man. You are male does not fit
How they feel inside all right, and I'm not talking about men who feel like they are feminine and maybe gay or flamboyant
This is a completely different thing.
This is how you want people to perceive you in
society and this is how you feel inside and when you look in the mirror, you want the image that you see inside of
Yourself to match the image on the outside. Yes, there are feminine men and feminine gay men and very flamboyant men and
Metrosexual men who are arn't gay.
It doesn't matter here. That's not what I'm talking about
that's different that's how, you how you like to perceive yourself in the world
but you still are male and
You still want to be perceived as male. You just want to be perceived as male in a feminine way when your trans you want
To be perceived as female because that's how you feel inside
And I'm only giving you an example of somebody who is male to female transgender. That's not what I am
I am a female to male Transgender
So I was born doctors looked at my genitals, and they were like oh my God. It's a girl! I realized that
I was younger when I was 15 that oh my God
Something my whole life, my whole life something's been off and the second I found out what being trans is or what trans was
Everything clicked and everything in my life then made sense, and that's that moment
I realize I don't want to be seen as a masculine woman
I want to be seen as the man that I am inside and now that I am here
Eleven years later doing all of this stuff
I'm very very happy with who I am and everything my gender identity and how I identify inside.
Finally resemble the outside that I have been dealing with for a very long time. I know as a non trans person
This is very hard to understand. So just for one second. I want you to just imagine something for me
Okay, if you are a non trans female all right, and you live in the world and you are
You are you want to be seen as who you are you are female?
but the entire world just uses HE pronouns, HIS pronouns and just treats you and
Sees you only as male. I know that's hard to imagine
But just for once that you wouldn't be comfortable, and I know that this is not the same thing all right
But I just want you to imagine you would not be comfortable
And that's just that slight discomfort that you're feeling just even thinking about that
That's the life of trans people every single day somebody telling them that no you're not actually female you're male
And I'm not going to respect that I'm going to keep using
He pronouns to refer to you even though you're telling me that you're female nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh your actually male
And I know that there's going to be a bunch of people out there who said that example doesn't work
But you know what it has worked in the past for some people to kind of understand what's going on, but also
I want you to know okay because a lot of people are just going to go but what about gender expression?
What about all of these other things?
These are all just stereotypes people are just used to these gender roles all of these terms will be discussed in video number
two of this series
But just to quickly recap being transgender means that you don't identify with the gender that you were assigned at birth
You live your life
Not matching the outside body to your inside body. This is called Dysphoria all right
I don't want to go into what dysphoria is in this video because that's a video later on in this series
But if you are not trans, and you don't have dysphoria it is impossible for you to understand what this for it is
Because you don't have it
but at least you can try to understand it a little bit and you can understand what it means in the term and
You will understand what it feels like but you'll understand what it is and really the main part of dysphoria
Is that you just don't connect your gender identity and how you feel inside with the body that you have all right?
And yes, there is a whole bunch of things that you can do in order to alleviate this gender dysphoria and most of the people
Transition, but I just want to reiterate
Every trans experience is different if you're trans you do not need to transition in order to be trans some people cannot medically transition
They literally cannot because they either don't want to they don't feel they need to
They can't because of no support or they medically can't because there's something they have a medical condition that prevents them from transitioning
So if you have a trans person in your life, all right, and they tell you hey
I'm trans. Can you please use he/him pronouns for me?
respect them even if they don't look like how you want them to look as
What you deem what a man is supposed to look like in society
Just respect them and just know that some people just aren't ready to transition
can't
Transition or will not be able to medically transition in the future basically these videos all about respect you'll never understand what it's like to
Be Trans, and that's fine
but at
Least you can understand certain aspect of what trans is and you can respect it and respect the people in your life
Who are trans and respect the people who you will encounter in your life as trans and be a good ally?
I just like you to have an open mind and watch these videos
I know some of you might not be accepting at all and you don't even want to watch this, but please just understand
I'm just trying to educate you okay. We are not freaks of nature we have lives
I am not just trans. I am successful. I am a graduate student
I have like two different companies. I do a podcast
I do all of these other things that make me who I am I'm a runner. I work at a running store.
I'm not just trans, and I have a life and I have been in relationships and people love me and I
have support for my family and my friends and
All of these things make me who I am and I need you to know that
I'm not just some trans person trying to convert other trans people and bring them into my sick world alright
So I know that you might not have an open mind right now
But please just watch these videos and learn a little bit and
Then maybe you'll be able to see us a little more human than you did and maybe you'll be able to accept the trans person,
In your life, just a little bit more that was pretty heavy,
I'm sorry about that.
But you know people are going to be watching this series who weren't really super accepting so that's why the series is here.
Thank you for watching all right. I will see you in episode number 2.