Ash went on: "Playing a
trans man on TV has been a dream come true.
And as a young person who is trans, I didn't see a
trans man on TV ever, ever, really, until I was like, 17.
A biological male may identify as a girl/woman (trans woman); a biological female as a boy/man (
trans man).
'I don't think I actually saw a person that I consciously knew was actually trans in any form of media until was maybe 17, 18,' he said, sharing that the first film where he saw a
trans man was the 1999 film 'Boys Don't Cry.' The film dramatizes a real-life hate crime against a trans person.
"I know of a
trans man a few years below me who was bullied quite ferociously for being trans but I've not experienced anything like that myself.
The Lyell unit is called in to investigate an attack against a
trans man, and when two further crimes are reported, one leaving a potential witness, it becomes clear that the team is dealing with an outbreak of violence targeting the trans community.
Early on in The Fosters's run, the show introduced Cole, a
trans man going through a medical transition.
In Wednesday's Observer we told how Eli Graham, a
trans man said she was told to leave the men's bathroom during at night out at the complex last Wednesday night.
Trans man is a man who was assigned female at birth.
She added: "We suffer hate crimes from doctors and shop assistants - we've had doctors say 'you're too pretty to be a
trans man'.
His new book, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man (Scribner, 204 pp., $24), probes the culture (or cult) of masculinity through, among other things, his experience as the first
trans man to enter the boxing ring at Madison Square Garden, where he competed in a 2015 charity event when he was 34.
Nichols finally identifies as a
trans man; as monumental as that self-realization is, Flocks is much more than just one person's story.