hey what's up you guys my name is Tyler
and I am here with my cousin Tristan hi
guys and we are going to talk about our
lives and our experiences as cousins and
being transgender
yes so you guys might know Tristan from
my channel she's been on here several
times but in those videos she is not the
fierce woman you see before you today I
was a chunky little man boy no you
weren't so yeah my cousin Tristan came
out his trans and she is transitioning
and so am I but you guys knew that when
did you come out just I came out as a
trans um last November but I didn't
start my transition until May of this
year right and um I knew for a while
before she told anyone else in the
family obviously it'd be a little bit
easier to tell me um and we we grew up
in the south in a very like religious
family like raised reading the Bible and
going to church and um so there's always
been this sort of closed-minded view on
this kind of stuff you know LGBT issues
so we kind of both come from the same
background where it was really hard for
us to come out to the family and like
tell people and even before he came out
as trans we both had talked about how we
would both be better in each other's
bodies like how I would be a better girl
and he would be a better boy and it
definitely worked out that way that's so
funny that you mentioned that I forgot
yeah like we came out to each other
unknowingly we um we would yeah talk
about like Express how man I wish I
could just like I wish we could switch
bodies I wish I could just be a boy and
you could be a girl and um it's funny
cuz I you know I'd always like think
about you know oh man if I was a guy I'd
like dress this certain way and I'd have
this certain hairstyle and I'd
work out and stuff I'm sure you felt I
remember always wanting to wear like
Daisy Duke like booty shorts so bad in
the summer I was like I just want to
wear those so bad sweet this so cute and
so yeah we are first cousins um her mom
and my mom are sister
and uh we grew up together like not like
your typical cousin relationship we like
lived together several times we're we're
we're like siblings that's why we did
The Sibling Tag on my channel like we
grew up super close and we've always
been like best friends she's like the
closest family member that I have and
it's really cool because we've stayed
friends growing up and now in our adult
lives we're friends too and we're way
better friends than we ever were like as
opposite Sexes it it's crazy because we
understood each other a lot before but
now it's like we get why we understand
each other so much because that mindset
is just so much so similar yeah it's
kind of like telepathic like we can like
think so much alike on different
subjects and it's just crazy and and
before you came out the first couple
times that you even dressed like
yourself like a woman was like with me
and like going to my Halloween party and
stuff yeah that was my very first time
was your Halloween party and I was so
scared I was so nervous to be a girl in
front of all these people that I yeah
what was like what was that like because
you didn't know anyone it was I don't
know it was kind of terrifying I was
just like oh my God what are people
going to think you know and like nobody
judged me or anything everybody was so
cool and like half people didn't even
know like after I took off all my makeup
and like my hair and stuff and every
everybody was like oh my gosh like they
didn't even know that's funny so it was
it was a pretty good experience
and I'm sure it's it's almost
easier um around people that you don't
know like you know dressing like that in
front of your family the first time is
so different than just like dressing and
going out in public or going to hang out
with people that you know maybe you've
seen once or twice yeah for sure that's
how I felt for sure like being around
our other cousins and stuff like here
recently I was just around some of our
family you know that I haven't met as a
girl yet and you know it was kind of
awkward with them at first but you know
they like opened right up to it it's a
lot harder for her than it was for me
like to come out and like live as
herself I feel like you're like your
parents like your dad more was like a
lot
more difficult for you than like me cuz
I I don't see my dad very often and even
then like he just kind of brushed it off
he was like I mean do what you're going
to do whatever my dad is just not an
accepting person like even whenever I
come out from gate at like as being gay
I got kicked out for it you know things
were just crazy with that and then after
being
coming out of strands I was just like
totally disowned from like that whole
half of the family which you know is
horrible because I had a lot of people
that I was close to and I think I have
maybe like one or two family members on
that side of the family that I even
still have like any relation to
whatsoever that's sad I feel like that's
how it is as a whole trans women is just
always for some reason people are less
accepting than with trans men and I
don't I don't know why I think it's just
cuz they put men at a higher standard
and they think oh you're born a man then
you're going to be a man I mean it's
kind it's the same way for both you know
for both sexes but for some reason it's
just littleit sexism there it's like of
course you'd want to be a man and then
it's like oh why why the would you
want to be a woman I don't understand
you're already the better
gender I've never heard of any
transgender cousins and especially not
MTF and FTM transgender and we're both
very close in age she's 18 and I'm 19
and we like it's kind of crazy like it's
you don't really hear of that very often
I mean I've never heard of it before so
yeah me either just something we wanted
to like talk about and share on here if
you guys have any questions or anything
that you'd like to hear from us I
haven't really posted on my YouTube
channel but it's just Tristan Latrell l
i t t r e l l um I want to start posting
videos and I hope to soon I also have an
Instagram if you guys want to DM me any
questions that you have it's also just
Tristan LOL down in the DM my dudes so
yeah if you guys have any questions or
anything uh or a topic for us to discuss
or anything like that leave it in the
comments or go follow Tristan on her
Instagram and you can talk to her on
there but I I hope you found this video
interesting I hope you learned something
maybe I don't know maybe some of you
guys can relate to this but thank you
for watching I hope you have a great day
and I'll talk to you soon bye one thing
that's really funny about Tristan coming
out and transitioning to female is that
she looks a lot like my sister and so
whenever I go places with her a lot of
times people will think that I'm
actually with Cassie I'm babysitting
cass's dog as you guys know and the last
time Tristan came over Smokey saw her
and like freak the out thinking she
was Cassie and just like immediately
jumped in my lap and was just like
freaking out and then like kind of
started to realize that I wasn't her and
then just kind of got sad and got all
salty got all salty that's funny I think
it's it's like the long blonde hair and
the dark eyebrows and like a lot of our
family members too have just said you
know that I look lot like her which is a
huge compliment that's sweet that's cute
so yeah I thought that was pretty funny
and worth mentioning