My Ten Year High School Reunion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- This month, I went to my ten year high school reunion in Texas. I didn't come out and transition until after high school (and college, for that matter) so I had a lot of fears about how my peers would react to me.
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"I forgot I was trans" that made me so happy to hear ❤️
Same
Yeah. Cant wait till im old enough to transition without hate from my parents and I hope ill be able to forget too
Hazy I wish u the best :)
@@optionalprawn4282 ty
Yeah, thats so goals :D
I'm a trans guy and went to an all girls religious high school. Soooo yeah... NEVER GOING TO THAT REUNION. XD
Mad Alic jeeee
I would go just to spite them 😂😂
I would go, ppl would be like, "You aren't a girl, you never went to our- MICHELLE?! WHAT HAPPENED?!"
*"IM A PANSEXUAL TRANSGENDER MAN WHO IS MOSTLY GAY BUT STILL PAN AND I NEVER LIKED OUR TEACHERS!"*
I am not transgender, but if that happened, I would try to annoy everyone for twenty minutes, then leave.
im weird, sorry
I’m glad you found who you are ❣️ it’s hard for some lgbt people to find who they are sometimes cause religion or if you’re in religious surroundings ❣️ stay beautiful
Ahh all female religious high school. I went to one of those. I can understand why you wouldn’t want to go. :/ I’m happy to hear that you are who you are.
I forgot i was trans..... i choked so hard lmao
So unrealistic. I feel like you trans always think about being trans.
@@thephilosopher5799
Doesn't have to be.
Especially when u already had all the surgeries n everyone calls u a guy, etc.
So It's possible to forget being trans for a while cuz u got used so much to being a guy, yk
@@thephilosopher5799 I transitioned so long ago that I forgot I ever transitioned.
@@thephilosopher5799 yeah and I feel like you non-trans always think about not being trans -_- seriously you are stupid
It's dumb to say that we always speak of one SMALL part of us trans dudes. For example, I am transgender FTM but I like to draw and I'm pretty artistic with my anime art style. I also love singing despite the testosterone voice cracks. On top of all of that, I love comedy. Not all of me revolves around gender identity. Remember that next time you think about writing a comment on youtube videos about things you don't know.
The moment I fell in love “Thanks to vitamin T” I loved it so much I slammed the subscribe button and bell so fast!!!
SAME
"oh wait I'm trans"
oKAY MOOD
SKSK
1K LIKERRRR
A.RIVAL how is that a mood....
SAME.
You forgot you were trans? 😂
"And you may now say your wedding vows"
"Oh honey by the way, I forgot to tell you something"
Lol
YEESSSS
HAHAHA
Aha that's gonna be me
i was number 666 to like (sorry i had to)
Me the first (and second and 10th) time I heard about trans men: "Wow, I sure wish I could transition to male, except I can't because I'm a cis woman!" …I might be a little stupid.
mE
What a fuckin mood
I think that sort of thing indicates normalization, not stupidity.
I had something similar happen in my own realization that I qualify as agender. "Some people don't feel like either gender? Ofc! I don't" without me noticing the clue stick.
"I don't feel like either. Oh, well. Social roles are cultural constructs, anyway. I have female parts, so I am a woman" (under the biological definition, which exists but doesn't erase or replace the social one).
Sure, it's equivocation fallacy to use the word in the biological sense when folks are chattering about the social sense, but I look feminine (anatomy plus general attire), so folks perceive me as a woman in person. Folks who just chat with me, without a photo, usually think I'm I guy-unless they're one of those fools who think ad hominem actually addresses an argument. Even then, pronouns and gendering are tools-as in, that's how I perceive them.
It's still taken me an embarrassingly long time to notice the clue stick, never mind pick it up.
My dude, that’s called being an egg. If you have reddit and feel comfortable with it, I think that the people on r/egg_irl would enjoy your story.
@@sophiahawkins2241 Omg thank you for this reddit thread, I'm definitely an egg
I- I’m actually quAKING I go to the same high school!!!! I’m so incredibly proud and inspired by your story and I wish you the best!!!
Damb u jus doxed urself fam
What's it like in your school?
@@wowie2162 Haha, what are you going to do? Go to their school and yell "ARTYTHESECOND!" until you find them? I feel like a doxx is only effective if you have a way to indentify the person, rather than just knowing a place that they go to every day. :/
Yea that's not a dox at all
Why is it that people can look amazing as both genders, but I'm struggling with just one
Hades Daughter I’ve never related more to a comment then I have to this one.
Saaaaammmeeeeeeee
Hades Daughter omg why is this me
can relate
Relate!!!!
is no one gonna talk about how he looked like britney spears in high school
I KNOW
Jaz Rivera and now ed sheeran
Max Jackson more like jesse mccartney
I was about to say thisXD
I don't think so.
My partner came out as trans less than 2 weeks ago. Still getting used to the idea that I have a wife, never thought I would have one of those, but I love her :)
Wish you guys the best!!!
An unexpected situation, right? Wishing you two the best of luck!
Wholesome 100
Now this is TRUE love......
so good to see 💑
Are you still together
I went to high school in the 1990's. Being gay alone back then was a scandal, especially considering I went to school in the South, during the Great Religious Revival. Being transgender did NOT happen. That was something that happened on Jenny Jones or Jerry Springer, not in real life. I was picked on mercilessly all throughout school for various reasons. A lot of people were convinced I was gay, and in a way they were correct. I identify as s trans woman and am attracted to other women, so...
I did not attend my 10 year or 20 year reunions partly because of my transition. Mostly, it was because I have no desire to be around these people again. I did not enjoy being around most of these people when we were forced to share space. Why would I choose to see them when I do not have to? I am fine with where I am in life and have no desire to relive those horrible memories.
Did u say Jenny Jones? SHUT UP!!! Been an insomniac my whole life and I used to watch her at 1am when I was 19!!! Wow the flashbacks!!!
"OH RIGHT! I... I AM TRANSGender that... had not occurred to me..."
Lincon Tay i read this right as he said it lol spoopy
I am a trans guy that goes to that school!!
I am a sophmore
I screamed when you liked my commet 💙💙 you and your stuff. :)
and i love u for it
I'm not going to like your comment cause it has 666 likes...
@@technoratic5589 not anymore
Theres this concept called "Gay Time" where basically time represents itself differently when you are LGBT+. When you are cis or straight you experience time based on a general script: get career, get partner, get married, have kids. I don't have life goals and it confuses me when people do, but I recently realized its because I don't value or are able to do those things so they aren't markers of success or failure. in my opinion, happiness and fulfilling your values is success.
Beautifully said.
Uhhh I’m not lesbian but I’m def not quite on the normal time script thingy probably bc I don’t have a neurotypical brain
Yeah, it's been 15 years since I was born and I still haven't been able to actually start life in an honest and true way because I'm a closeted enby. :/
@@justsomeguy5628 Don't worry friend, I only fully realized in my mid 20s and i'm doing OK and I'm still at the start of building a life. as you get older it will be MUCH easier to come out of the closet when you are aware of it and hunt down that support you need.
woah someone explained it
“I am transgender. That had not occurred to me.” I have this thought frequently. 😂
I ran into a transwoman at a convention and she said she went to my high school. I felt bad because I didn't remember her until she told me her past birth name. and I was shocked because she was so beautiful! I wouldn't have known she was trans if she didn't tell me lol.
also never compare yourself with other people. Everyone takes a different time bus to the same destination.
Amazing to find you, Joey!! I've been a fan for years. I'm not trans but my nephew is. He's still early into this journey (he is going to be 20 next month) but I am so proud of him. In this world it is harder than ever but he is taking it in stride and rocking his identity♡
Joeyblondewolf2 saying “I didn’t know she was trans because she was beautiful” is like,,, transphobic tbh
Ya Boi I think they meant it as she looks so cis
@@leche0549 Still not very good to say
Pretend I Was Never Here look dude, I’m just saying they didn’t mean it in a bad way
oh wowwwww I cannot IMAGINE going to mine lmaooo props to you and glad it turned out well!
Mine was pretty good but I was barely out as bi to just a handful of friends. Wasn't out as trans even to myself.
I kind of hope we have a 25th so I can go to that to see how it is. I do have a few people who'd back me up completely if need be.
(If i go )Me : yo my dudes ,now I'm one too .
And go away because I hate a lot of people there
Love you riley.
Riley J. Dennis
Sorry for not wanting to date you. I’m such a racist transphobe.
Alice Collins
Sis you know it’s true
"i saw enough representation to know what those feeling were, but not enough for me to not be ashamed"
No, I'm older than that t shirt 😂
Duarte Santos saneeeee
same here 🤣.
Same here
Same
*i was not so lucky.*
*help.*
Just got started with "Thanks to Vitimin T" too happy
Congrats
testosterone
Congratulations! That is a big deal. Happy for you random guy
Nice
That t-shirt is as old as me and it’s in better shape than I am.
TheAnnaPup same tho
Are you implying that you were born in 2005 because I’m confused
S a m e
A Doughnut sure.
A Doughnut that’s 13 years ago dude I’m so confused
Closeted trans person who plans on coming out in college here! I do want to go to my high school reunion in the future, which will be interesting since it’s a same-sex school
Please update when that happens!
hell yeah you do YOU!
Tell us how it went afterwards!
Ooooh I want all the tea when the time comes!
Please look into the medical issues that come with taking T. You probably don't need to do all that. Just look into healing the root cause and keep your body from being medicalized and mutilated for life.
*V I T A M I N T I M W E E Z I N G*
Vitamin Tim Weezing
I re-met a guy who had a crush on me before I started transitioning/was out. He seemed conflicted, he even said he was against it and he could never see me as a man, I didn't let it get to me and joked as I normally would. He was rude during the first interaction, after that he simply asked many questions, some ruder than others but I tried to answer them all. After many friendly talks that seemed to fade. He said that I look like a handsome guy , uses the correct pronouns and name. He says he cares about sex and gender a lot and that he thinks trans people aren't right but it sure doesn't matter to his heart. It's been 2 months of friendly banter he acts the same as he did with me before, maybe even more excitable. That's actually how many of these situations go for me. As long as it's not a big deal and I act chill about it, no one really cares after a while.
I mean at least he respected it eventually. My dad will disown me when I tell him I'm Trans
@@min_says_h3110 oh yeah no, my family was the same. Friends just weren't. How long do you think it will be till you can move out?
@@min_says_h3110 that's how it is with me and my sexuality. I don't know if I'm bi, but if I am, I'm waiting to tell my parents until I move out and have my own income.
@@cattyghostly7414 well I'm 15 now so I'll give it at least when I'm 18 and decide to move out. My mom is the only person who knows I'm trans and she supports it (her entire family is LGBT) so I knew she'd except me but my dad is a whole different story. I'll just move in with either my Uncle (he's very excepting because he's G) or I'll just move into a rentable apartment in the Gayborhood (I live in Philly)
@@trinitylivingston1286 same tho. I like both genders but I'm not sure if I'm Pan or Bi.
oh god people who are younger than 2005. I started college in 2005.
turdl38 i was born in 2006
turdl38 ikr but I was still only 4
I started in 2002. So, hey... At least you're not as old as me? lol
I graduated college in 2004... 😂
cubshock I was a year old then
i am rewatching this and WHEEZING MATE "I forgot I was trans" same thing happens to me ALL THE TIME my mates and I will be talking and they call me Ajax and they just go "Why do they call you that?" uhhhhhh
@Itachi Uchiha not dutch, new zealand bred kiwi here and enby fella
@Itachi Uchiha ajax is ook een schoonmaakmiddel en de naam van een karakter in de Deadpool film
Isn't ajax a cleaning supply brand
I was homeschooled so...my high-school reunions happen every time I see my family.
Big oof
Time is now divided by BS (before shirt) and AS (after shirt)
Lauren Frank me and most of my siblings were born BS while the rest of them were born AS
I was born Shirt.
i think i was BS because my birthday is in march...but i might even be AS because what if it was made in january or february?
I’m going way too deep lmao
Connor RK900 that's total BS
:p
I had a whole long explanation of my life here and lost it! Long story, shortened: I'm a 67 year old cis woman whose 50th reunion is next year. I've attended every reunion, sometimes as newly divorced, husband present, husband in prison, single mom of 4, alone, brought my daughter, etc. Never owned a house, never had a "career", ...good grief! I'm tearing up! My class of just under 200 has always been supportive and kind.
Oh. And at the 10th reunion? The girls were all recognizable, but the guys ALL had changed SO MUCH! You've just maybe changed a bit more than expected.
I’m a trans man and I’m so scerd all the time of getting beat up whenever i tell people
guga gum stay strong.
This is a year old but I just wanted to say that I love u and you are strong.
@@zoellack4365 im trying to be but nhs wating times are putting me down alot
@@mason9627 I get you bro. The NHS has been under so much pressure lately so it's a shame people's needs can't be fulfilled properly. Hang in there though, you'll get there eventually and feel amazing! If you feel down at all I have instagram so you can message of you don't have anyone to talk to. @alicia.bea.sarah :) 💕
When i see people bullying or hurting people who are part of the LGBTQ+ community i always try to intervene and stay with the person being attacked until they are safe, i dont understand what peoples problem is with people in the LGBTQ+ community like ive never seen do do anything to be considered wrong or disgusting their people just like everyone else, i was raised in an environment where LGBTQ+ ideas were seen as in indifferent subject, they stayed nuetral neither supporting nor hating on it but i could never just stand there and watch people get hurt. Then again its not like i can do much im a small 16 year old
I went to my 5 year reunion last year and it was horrible. So many rude questions, "what are you doing with your life?" and, "why don't you have a job yet?" and, "when are you going to move out?" God, my parents can be so mean.
I didn't go to my reunion. But I sobbed after my best friend's baby shower, realising how behind I am? So maybe that is similar? I had spent weeks planning it without realising how it would feel to sit in that room and talk about babies and houses and spouses for 6 hours straight. I am happy for her, but it didn't feel great and honestly, baby showers are so weird.
I love learning about trans people. TH-cam videos have taught me most of what I know.
I learn about them so I can know their weaknesses and traits so I can hunt them all down
Just know this baggage alot of pronouns n yeah safer to steer clear of those waters if you ask me😂
Rafael Torres then why are you watching trans videos lol
In order to know what to avoid duh
Britni Okay trans people are pretty awesome, one of my mum’s is trans
wow, judging by the comments, your audience is super young. Making me feel like an old lady at 22 😂 My ten year renunion will be in 2024. I'll probably go, but it might be a sad affair. A few of my classmates have since died and a lot of them have gotten mixed up in drug misuse so it's probably gonna be a pretty small turnout. There have been plenty of sucess stories though! Lots of babies, people defying the odds and getting into top notch universities, people getting great jobs...i'm somewhere in the middle. After finishing uni i've not managed to do anything with my life. Here's hoping that by 2024 i'll have something to be proud of!
I'm 20, my 10 year reunion will be 2028. Idk if I'll even go lol. That depends on what happens in the next 8 years
Im graduating from high school in 2024 😂😂😂
Honestly, that whole idea society pushes onto us, of "doing something with your life"... What does that even mean? Do we have to be rich, famous or madly successful to be allowed to be proud of ourselves?
trying
I am 54. Damn, I cannot believe I am that old!! I have loved going to my HS reunions! I am a cis, straight female, so no shocker that I was not worried. Although there have been several of my classmates show up and reveal themselves as gay, we have not yet had a trans classmate. I hope that my fellow classmates would be kind and welcoming to them if they did come back! There were only 152 of us, and we are in a demographic that really never saw being trans as an option, but it would seem, statistically, that we should have some. I hope that no one stays away because of this! Now I want to find out about everyone I graduated with!!
My high-school reunion is going to be in 2036
"most of these shirts were way too big for me, but now they fit thanks to vitamin T!" hands down the quickest I've ever hit subscribe
whaaaat ppl who were born after 2005 are old enough to use the internet now?
2006. Yes we are.
someone i work with said they were born in 2003 and i had to do the mental hoops of holy shit im not the youngest in the workforce anymore and im about to graduate highschool while people born in 2005/2006 are starting. (i’m 2001)
max people born in this century are graduating high school now?? whaaaat
People born in 2005 are 13... they’re old enough to use the internet, but perhaps not mature enough
I was born in 2005 lol
Wow. I did not expect my past to pop up through TH-cam. This world is smaller than I expected. I knew you were from Texas but I didn't know you were from Grapevine. I lived there as well. I'm a couple of years older than you so we wouldn't have known each other. But wow the world is small. I moved away right after I graduated. This is bringing up so many emotions.
I guess I just want to say, I see you, and I know what it was like to live there as well and the social expectations and what have you.
Also a comment about marriage and kids and all that....I feel there is such a heavy expectation in the south to focus on getting married, and having kids right away as opposed to career development and success. Perhaps that was my experience being raised as a woman there though, and others would have a different experience.
"I graduated with 600 people"
Pardon? There are only about one hundred people in my class.
Edit: 80
One hundred? Mine had eight.
My class rn only has 36 people
Mine was like 30 😂
We were only 30 and I'm not friends or close with so many
There were 58 of us in my class in 1991. There was about 700 pepl in the entire schl. Very small town. 1 square mile. The school is pre k through 12th. ALL ONE BUILDING! I LOVE living in a small town!
I was 4 in 2005 so I’m 17 now so that shirt is 14 years old
Same hia
i was born in 2005 lol
I was born october 12 2005 and I'm 13
I was 5 going on 6 in 2005 (was born in the year 1999)
You Were All Born In 2005 But She Was 4 In 2005 she was Not Born In 2005 Now Its 2019 She's 17
5:50 Fun fact: [born] males won't finish puberty until about age 25. Which is why some of your [born] male classmates had gotten taller while in college. They legit had a growing spurt in college.
Wrong timestamp and my phone let me edit my comment.
The timestamp is 4:50
V H isn’t that also when the hip bone connects? Like that you’re hips won’t widen when you’re on estradiol.
tell me why im 15 and 6ft then-
Hey man, everyone's life has different milestones that happens at the times that work the best for them. 💚 So glad you ended up going! 😃
Girl* not man
Witte Artistry not all milestones happen at the best times.
I was born in 2005
Manny M THANK YOU FINALLY SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT
That shirt is 32 years younger than me. I could be that shirts mother!
Two of my 3 kids are older than that shirt
Oh honey, we had a reunion a week ago 2 years after school and I was in the closet the whole time. I'm pansexual and in a relation with a woman since 7th class, so I was 13 then and nobody knew about it the next 7 years.
I married her last year and we adopted my niece who's parents died. And as she is just 6 months old I took her with me.
Nobody else was married or had a kid, we are all 20 years old so we are still very young. And I came there with my baby and my wife came 1 hour later so everybody was curios who I have a baby with.
Their faces were hilarious! Nobody believed it until we showed them our wedding pictures!
Who gave you the right to be SO aggressively handsome?
Not even just handsome, though. You seem like a great person to hug and talk to
My big reunion annoyance (got the 20 year coming up in a couple, god damn I’m old) was that the people I’d most like to catch up with are pretty much guaranteed to not bother. That already happened with the 10th and 15th.
Always exciting when I see two of my fave channels are aware of each other.
So what are you waiting for? Collab! XD
I mean, I'm always game for such things.
@@CouncilofGeeks Heck yeah! Jackson get in on this. 😂😂
MIley Kendrick I second this!
Exactly why I didn't go to my 5th last year. Well, that, and they also scheduled it for the weekend after Thanksgiving. No thanks...
HA! I’m older than the shirt!
This video was so much more chilled and REAL than i thought it would be, honestly. The way you speak about everyday things in such a relaxed manner is really cool!
The shirt isn't older than me, but I am excited to see one of my icons rocking an oral interp shirt! I do speech and debate at my school, and being nonbinary, I have some dysphoria relating to my very high voice. It's so great to see another trans person who did public speaking!
I came here to say the same thing! I loved speech. I also have dysphoria around my voice, it's probably the biggest reason I want to start T. I've done a little bit of DIY vocal training and have been practicing speaking at the lower end of my range which does help a little bit. I've found that a big part of it is undoing social conditioning to speak as unobtrusively as possible (which is a work in progress for me).
Molly M. Omg I do dramatic interp
aaaa I do poi and humor interp!
I do info and extemp!
I'm currently in between my info rounds, lol
i’m 3 years older than your shirt👍
Same here
I'm 2 years older than his shirt
Samantha G 16 years old?
2002 club.
15 yrs older lol
My best friend is slowly transitioning to her gender.
When I first met her, she had know idea what this community was, she was born a 'boy' and stayed a 'boy' for a long a time-
I'm proud to say that's she's an amazing person and an awesome friend, no matter what gender she is.
I'm sincerely happy to see you be open and even forget you're trans!
I hope someday my best friend will find the body she fits into, for now she's a Trans Girl but she's still contemplating on some other stuff too.
I also hope I'll reach there someday.. Me being a girl at birth and always feeling like I'm the wrong gender.
I now define myself as Gender-Fluid and I am proud of who I am.
💚💚💚💚
I was born 2005!! I'm as old as that shirt xD
Same 😂
samee
Sameee
omg same
Same lol
This is the first video I've ever watched of yours and all I can think is that your mannerisms remind me so much of John Green from the Vlogbrothers channel. The way you talk, move, etc. It's all John Green. Surely I can't be the only one noticing the striking similarities in mannerisms! For the record, John Green is one of my favorite people on the planet.
Lacey Anne the John green that makes history videos?
Llamatacos295
And writes books
And plays video games sometimes
Upon bingeing a ton of Jackson's videos, it became clear he actually knows John Green and has merch on DFTBA! What lucky ducks they are!
Part of me wants to go to my high school reunion just to see where people ended up, but part of me doesn't really because I didn't have a lot of friends and mostly hated my time there.
are you inside my head, because saaaame!
6:34 OMG, Same! A lot of people I went to secondary school with (we are now all between 25 and 27 yo) now have babies, are married or have accomplished way more than me - steady jobs, etc... And then, there's me. 26 years old, I have a general job NOT in the field I studied in, i do not have kids (honestly, no jealousy here, i never wanted kids in the first place) still live at home (although that's another project of mine to have my apt at the beginning of 2021). And my brother, who's 4 years younger than me (22yo) has a girlfriend and they are expecting a baby in August 2020 (edit: the baby was born yesterday - 21 August 2020), so yeah, I know everyone goes at their own rhythm, but personally speaking, i still feel like I'm 19, not 26.
Same high school Austin Post (Post Malone) went to. That's pretty cool
I’m glad that everything turned out okay! I wanted to go to my 10 year high school reunion, but the folks planning it decided to just do a last-minute informal thanksgiving meetup at a bar in my hometown instead and having a ton of plans already five hours away that weekend, I couldn’t make it work.
Idk if I'm gonna go to my 5 year reunion. The people that I would want to see from my high school, I can see right now. The only reason of going is because it supposedly would be "fun" and "crazy," plus I'd like to see how the people who actually graduated turned out.
How do you guys all stay in touch? Like I'm having trouble staying in touch with my friends from high school and I'm still in high school.
@@hanaomer4940 Facebook, Instagram, and/or email/text message.
The friends that were just totally chill to protect you and even allowed you to become their fake boyfriend are honestly amazing! Every single person that can help is amazing :)
Hey Jackson, I understand your pressure to fit in and show your accomplishments at the reunion. But you know what, you're doing a lot to inform people in society, speak out for other who don't have a voice or a stuck in relationships, families, work, religion and surroundings that don't let them be themselves, where ever that might be gender, sex, habits, looks, expectations etc. - and last but not least you did something for yourself. It doesn't matter if you're "behind" others in life. Everybody has and should have the option to life live like they want and approach everybody like they want. And set their goals and live upon their strengthes and focus points. Free of expectations like work, income, family, children, cars, objects and whatnot. You're doing great Jackson, if you look back. And to others who are reading this, look at yourself, what you may have accomplished for yourself and for others. Maybe only last day. Or your going through a tough time right now? Look back a few years earlier. Or decades. You probably been there for someone. Helped out a family member. Gave a shoulder, an advice. Maybe a place to stay overnight. Or maybe just the pure joy of being together, talk, listen to music, play games. You probably did something nice for yourself and for others at some point. You're not bad. Just sometimes caped in expectations around you. Be true to yourself. And when looking back, get some energy of your positivity in life. And with that energy step out the dark and make new moves for you. All the best.
When you're 4 years older than that tee shirt
SlimeyT9 _ I’m 6 years older I feel like the oldest one here 🤣 all these people saying how the shirt is like six years older than them and like I’m horrible at math but something doesn’t add up
Yeah same and I'm reading some comments and they are all like "I'm the same age as that t-shirt"
What about when you’re 8 years older than it 😂
I'm 11 years old than that t-shirt, so... 😂🤷🏽♀️
...24 years older...... ... 👵🏼
Oh Jackson.... I went to a Catholic High School and I smooshed my ftm transness sooo far down I spent some 17 years trying to become a religious sister! I have not been to my High School Reunion. 😂
Do you think it’s better to transition during or after High School?
As soon as possible. With binders, blockers, and social transitioning.
I'm planning on after because I could never imagine transitioning with all the transphobic ppl in my school
As soon as you are save to live your life, the way you want to.
"Thanks to Vitamin T" I can't wait to be able to use that
You look like your 18 you cannot tell me your 27 or 28 (plz take this a a complement)
Jonathan Laguna tf lol
Chihuahua Productions i was drunk while writing that lol thanks for the response XD
Jonathan Laguna lmao ok
I'm so glad this video went viral and popped up in my TH-cam feed. I've learned SO much since stumbling upon your channel, Jackson. Not just about LGBTQIA+ issues and rights, but also about waffles, Harry Potter, and several other things we're both passionate about. I'm honestly considering waffling my tofurkey (vegan turkey) for Thanksgiving because of you lol.
Ugh i just remembered im trans too (how did i forget ive been watching passing videos for half an hour) and now i feel dysphoric. Ima go cry under my blanket while listening to the cards you hold on repeat for an hour.
I’m 2003. Two years older than the shirt
Pastel Daniel beautiful pfp
Arianna Skye Wow i cant believe you’re 2003 years old. crazy.
Same
@@davrosgnot1723 Fr
Davrosgnot lol
These t-shirt is my age
Ana PM so your 2,005 years old?
@@cam_1218 what? Their saying that their 13
Its 2 years older than me
It’s a year older than me
Kaity Edwards same
Woooooow, Jackson, I really felt all of this. I guess we’re the same age, though I skipped my 10 yr reunion last month. 🙃 I really identify with what you said on the sense of feeling “behind” ... thanks for sharing. This video really helped me 💛💛
"I forgot I was trans"
I thought I was the only one who forgets about myself lololol
“So a couple of things have changed”
Lol 😂
i go to that high school! i saw the gvine shirt and i was like... wat.
what are the odds of that?!?
Parker Pleasants ikr
I went to colleyville and I watched the entire video before realizing that him wearing that shirt shouldn’t be normal 😂👌🏻
Addy Adams I go to colleyville! I graduate this year!
i went to lewisville and the second he said grapevine i got so excited because there’s hardly any youtubers i’ve found are from our area. :)
Jackson, you’re not one bit behind, you’re doing amazing things. Everyone is on their own journey, yours is unique and beautiful. You’ll get to where you’re going when it’s your time. Stand proudly where you are today. ❤️
I really enjoyed this video, which is weird because I usually don't watch sit-down videos like this. The way this is told and has little bits of information on the community thrown in so casually is just amazing. I thought this was gonna be a sad, photo montage with some 10-second video clips thrown in when I clicked, so this was a nice refreshing taste of reality. This comment is just a word throw up and probably doesn't make much sense, but to make a longish story short: Thank you for making this video, and thank you for just doing what you are doing.
That t-shirt is my age
I’m a trans guy but I haven’t
came out yet except to my friends. Turns out some people found out and told everyone. Someone asked my twin sister if “I wanted to be a boy”. Oh god help. I’m scared to go to school everyday now in case someone mentions it. One of my teachers is also transphobic and a lot of people (mainly other boys) would never let me hear the end of it. Basically I’m screwed.
You'll be ok! Just make sure to always have friends with you, who will help u out if needed
You will be ok. Mom's trying to rush me to get out of the closet, but she's only trying to help :-/ just come out when you are ready. I'm also ftm
If you do come out, be sure to talk to your guidance counselor if anything bad happens.
MoeJoe Gaming Lynch me? Wat
MoeJoe Gaming Just going the definition. Thanks that did wonders for my dwindling sled condindenc
Dude! I feel so ancient.... I was 23 when you got that shirt! That shirt is as old as the Half-Blood Prince. Just one more way that I feel super old >
Also yes! If you’re over 18 and registered to vote, please please please vote!!!!!
Aaaaaaaand I just realized I’m twice as old as the 18 year olds I’m asking to vote..... why is everything making me feels so dang old today? :P
So stoked to hear that older classes at Grapevine have become more accepting. I have an older (queer) sibling (GHS class of 2011), and none of their class was openly lgbtq. I am super proud of this community for its improvement, and by the time my class reached high school (class of 2018) people were really supportive, and I know many who are openly lgbtq. Congratulations
I’m not trans but I admire people who assume their new gender and are proud of it!
When you said cis or straight, I thought you said sister straight lololol
That t shirt is almost as old as I am, I was born in 2004. Edit: HOW DID I NOT KNOW HE WAS FROM FORT WORTH THATS LIKE 20 MINUTES FROM WHERE I LIVE
I have my 50th HS reunioncoming up in two years, it will be my first and only reunion and my first as a transwoman!
Honey, I have t-shirts that can legally buy their own drinks.
I skipped my 10 year reunion for a couple reasons, one of which was that I wasn't proud of my life...I didn't want to spend time with people I didn't care about talking about a job I hated. I'm glad you had a good experience, but those feelings of self-disappointment are certainly not uncommon! It's also a good reminder for all of us that everyone has their own timeline and someone else's accomplishments are completely separate from your life and your current and future successes.
I went to a middle school reunion (I think it was a 15 yr reunion), and had a similar gut punch feeling of being behind everyone else. Everyone else was or had been in relationships or had kids or careers. Growing up at a time when there wasn't TH-cam or Google or social media, I didn't realize there was such a thing as being ace or aro or non-binary. Thanks to TH-camrs like yourself, I've learned more about LGBT+ identities, and I understand more about myself. Thank you.
You have transitioned from one gender to the other. That is a major accomplishment. Just think about how much that entails! You have successfully finished high school while suffering from dysphoria and depressions in the wrong gender, you had the courage to come out to your family and spend a lot of your time going to therapies and surgeries and taking hormones, in order to find and become your true self! This is a major accomplishment! Something cis people will never get to experience! Being transgender and transitioning should be seen as a heroic accomplishment, like saving someone's life or surviving through a life-threatening disease! Even better: Being transgender requires realizing it alone!
I've always known I wanted to go to my High School Reunions. I went to a few of my dad's high school reunions, I was even his ice breaker. I had a name tag on and would go up to random people and make them guess whose kid I was, and only people who knew about my parents taking a new last name would have a clue from my name tag.
Last Halloween my husband and I were Hogwarts reunion Harry and Genny (Weasley) Potter, because were too old to pretend we're attending Hogwarts.
The sad bit is that I'm class of 2010.
I'm only three years out of high school but this is definitely something I'm worrying about. I went to an all girls school so it's definitely going to be a bizarre experience
That T-shirt is 5 years younger than me xD
same thing here! *high five
Movie youser bish you old😂😂
@@sorren0_0.30 Lol not really, you're probably just really young. The shirt is 4 years younger than me and I'm only 17.
Sasha Pearsall yeah I’m basically still a foetus😂 but still 17 seems so far away cause in 12. I’ll probably blink and be 20 lol
Sorren Louise Whiston nah. In my experience your teens will drag on a bit, then suddenly speed up toward the end ... and suddenly you’re 20 and don’t know where the time went
I graduated High School in 1985. I'm older than your Tee. LOL ... I did the marriage and babies thing within a year of graduating. Mistake. Left it. I've had numerous jobs: anything from my current job cleaning toilets and classrooms, to interning as at NASA HQ in DC for a summer as a geology student. I've had money and been homeless. I'm teaching myself programming and graphic design at age 54 currently, and guitar. I'm not dead yet, why stop learning new things? With all that, my idea of success is not caring what other people think of me. People are shifty at best, and so not worth comparing yourself to. Compare yourself to your younger self. How far have you grown? How much have you learned? How much have you overcome within yourself. This is YOUR life, not other people's. Live for you, the rest will follow.
Oof I was born in 2006 so Yeah the shirts older xD
MelodeeArtZ Me too pfft
MelodeeArtZ y'all are so young wtf
Im from 2005
@@MeharsbrotherTV Are we? Or are you just old? 👀
CraftedWizardGamer you all are too young, and that's that, lol
Sometimes I forget I’m trans too??? Like???????
I mean, hey, that's a good thing. Means your dysphoria is gone and you actually feel like you look like a guy
its because you are truly yourself now inside and out :)
I sometimes do. At least I try to. Sometimes I do forget then it hits me and i get very very very upset and depressed. Can't wait for hrt and top surgery then I can fully forget I'm trans and get on with life.
Shipping Trash dysphoria never goes away unfortunately. You just find ways to deal with it
Emma I’ve heard many people say it does go away
Please tell me your school made the 'I heard it through the grapevine' joke like every day
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to go to my high school reunion because I went to a one hallway small ass Lutheran school and didn’t come out as queer or trans until college. Since coming out most people from high school removed and unfollowed me from social media and I only keep in contact with 2-3 people from my school... I hated that school and really succeeded and found myself in college so I’m not super upset about it but thank you Jackson for shining light on this stressor I too have as a trans guy!!
You are really inspiring, not just for trans people but for others too 😁 thank you for making this video
The way I always look at things is that I’ve made the best decisions I could with what I’ve had. I did what was right for me. I’m not behind, because it’s not a race. Other people haven’t dealt with the things that I have. Plus all of the coolest (cis) parents I know did it in their thirties and forties when they too had figured more out. I’m glad you got to go to your reunion and you had a mostly positive experience! I never even got an invite to mine which made that easy!
You are so eloquent and honest ❤❤❤❤ thanks for speaking up and making great representative content
Hey, I'm a straight cis male and your feelings towards the end about highschool reunion are exactly why I'll never go to mine.
I went to a school where the point would very much be gloating over others rather than seeing how people are getting on.
I'm happy with my life, I don't need others judging me based on what they think I should want from life.
1st video of yours that I have watched and I have to say you are so well spoken. Brave of you to go to the reunion.
So glad that u took safety precautions before attending, very smart ❤️