00:00I'm London. It's my partner, Avon.
00:02People judge us because we're both trans.
00:04People always say, like, oh, why did you guys transition?
00:07Why didn't you just stay the way you were before and just start dating?
00:11Somebody said, wait, huh? He's a she and she's a he, so what's the point really?
00:16They come in my DMs, like, you think the beard makes you more the man than me?
00:20So is this a straight couple?
00:22We're laughing emoji. Lord, you have to act for birth certificates now.
00:26Why y'all didn't keep the same just to be together?
00:31So who's doing the bending?
00:35I'm Avon, and this is my partner, London, and we're both trans.
00:38She popped up on my Facebook on friend requests, and I was like, wait, this girl's pretty pretty.
00:43I honestly thought she was too pretty for me.
00:45And then she texted me, and then from there, we started talking.
00:49Once I see him, I'm like, this man is handsome.
00:52Like, ain't you trans and you look like that? Like, you got a whole beard.
00:55And then you had, like, a fresh haircut.
00:57And I was just like, wow.
01:00Before we met, we would FaceTime every day.
01:02We would sleep on the phone, we would eat on the phone, we would shower while we were on the
01:05phone.
01:05It was like, we talked so much on the phone to the point we literally had to start Googling questions
01:09to ask each other.
01:10We just, like, bonded over being long-distance.
01:14I just felt like my dating history was just, like, trash.
01:16I just felt like my next person was not in Pittsburgh, where I'm from.
01:20And the crazy thing is, my first time coming to New York was last year in January.
01:23And once I left New York, then I seen his post.
01:27We just, like, tried to make it a thing where I came out here every month.
01:30And then I would come out here for, like, what, like, four days every time?
01:33Like, three, four days?
01:34Every single time she would come to visit me, she'd miss her flight when it was time to leave.
01:39I was just like, you know what, why not just move here?
01:41And we just decided to, like, move this to this apartment together.
01:45And we've been here ever since.
01:48Nobody ever knows we're trans.
01:50Sometimes even trans people don't even know we're trans.
01:53Like, you really only know we're trans because we posted on social media.
01:56Our first official picture together was on my Instagram.
02:01I became his girlfriend February 24th.
02:03The first picture was posted February 25th, because I wanted everybody to know he was mine.
02:07We went viral again.
02:08We did, like, this video, but nobody knew we were trans.
02:10It has, like, 20 million views on TikTok.
02:13Our whole plan was to not even mention we were trans until we already gained, like, a bunch of following.
02:18But us saying we're trans, it'll make us go even more viral.
02:21If it's going to grab your attention and make all eyes on us, why not?
02:25Hey, what's up? What's up?
02:27We just get a bunch of positive stuff.
02:29We only get the negative when we go viral.
02:31So, like, the comments that we usually get, like, for example, like, this one has 2,000 likes on this
02:37comment.
02:38They'd be like, so is this a straight couple?
02:40We're laughing emojis.
02:42And then this other one is, I'm not even trying to be funny, but why y'all didn't keep the
02:46same s*** just to be together?
02:49People just wonder why we didn't just stay the same gender.
02:53And then this one would be, like, Lord, you have to ask for birth certificates now.
02:57And then I'd be having, like, a lot of men comment because they don't have a beard and I do.
03:01And they come in my DM, like, do you think the beard makes you more the man than me?
03:06The women, most of them is just like, wow, we got to be careful out here.
03:09You know, we can't tell nowadays.
03:11This is enough internet for today.
03:13Who's doing the bending?
03:15So y'all straight just backwards.
03:19Somebody said, wait, huh?
03:21He's a she and she's a he.
03:23So what's the point really?
03:25Oh, why did you turn into a woman to date a woman?
03:28And why did you turn into a man to date a man?
03:30And it's just like, if you see a man and you see a woman, then clearly we're not gay because
03:35we're not the same gender we used to be.
03:37People always say like, oh, why did you guys transition?
03:40Why didn't you just stay the way you were before and just start dating?
03:44I didn't know him before.
03:45Nor did Avon know who I was.
03:47Nor was Avon even thinking about me because before I was focused on dating heterosexual straight men and he was
03:52focused on dating straight biologically born females.
03:56So it's like we didn't know about each other.
03:59We just crossed paths and everything just happened.
04:03It's exhausting trying to explain because I just feel like people choose to be so ignorant.
04:08People just like making it this trend.
04:10They see it and then they want to add on to it.
04:12As far as the judgment, sometimes I'll just cry about stuff because like, I mean, I'm human, but like for
04:17the most part, I don't care.
04:19I'm going to live in a moment and enjoy my life or I'm not going to give up.
04:23People defend us.
04:24There's a comment that says, I think it's where y'all in the comments asking about private parts and et
04:27cetera.
04:28Why is that anybody's business?
04:29Somebody said, I'm going to hold your hand when I say this.
04:32Someone doesn't become trans because they want to date a gender.
04:35They're trans simply because they want to change their own gender.
04:38Somebody was like, being trans and sexual orientation is two different things.
04:41Who they like has nothing to do with it.
04:43Exactly.
04:44It's a gender identity, not a sexuality.
04:45And that's what we're trying to get people to understand.
04:47Like people, when they see trans, they just sexualize us.
04:50The crazy thing is, y'all be so worried about sexual stuff and me and him didn't even have a
04:54conversation about nothing sexual until we were already like in a relationship.
04:57Because we were focused on each other and getting to know each other.
05:01It's just weird.
05:02Especially when we go viral, most of the comments are really about our genitalia and it's really annoying.
05:07My style before our transition, I was like scared to wear skirts or scared to wear shorts.
05:12For a long time, I would wear like shorts that were like almost to my knee.
05:16But then once I transitioned and got comfortable, I'm like girly.
05:20Like I love girly things.
05:21I love pink.
05:23We like to coordinate office because we like to take pictures.
05:26I just like that she's fun with it.
05:28She's not basic like me.
05:29She makes me want to step out.
05:31I like her fun style.
05:32Thanks.
05:33You like mine?
05:34Basic style.
05:35Yeah.
05:35I love my grandpa.
05:39So I'm actually thinking about showing you some pictures from before.
05:43I've been transitioning physically like 10 years.
05:46I started hormones in 2019.
05:49But as far as like transitioning, I was already identifying as a female.
05:53Like all my teachers in school and high school was calling me she and stuff.
05:56I have this picture from, I want to say I was in like fifth grade.
06:02I used to have piercings.
06:03I was like young and I had piercings.
06:06And I have a picture of me when like I was, I think I want to say a freshman in
06:09high school.
06:10It's like kind of proof that I always just been this way.
06:13The proof is in the pudding that this is just my walk of life.
06:15And then I have a picture of me when I got my breast augmentation.
06:21Crazy how far you come?
06:22Yeah, cause I used to like dream of wearing weave and dream of being a girl.
06:27And being able to like wear what I want.
06:29I was always tomboyish my whole life always.
06:33And medically I started in 2019.
06:35I tried to be a little feminine for my mom.
06:38I would go to the salon and get all this stuff done.
06:41One of the last pictures I took before I stopped dressing feminine.
06:47As you can see just by the pose, I tried to be girly.
06:51I couldn't.
06:51But it was horrible.
06:52And as you can see this was after I started transitioning.
06:55I started getting facial hair.
06:58And here, 2020, this was literally maybe like seven months after I tried transitioning.
07:04I cut all my hair off.
07:07And I got waves.
07:09I just wanted to feel more masculine.
07:12I feel like he was always like masculine.
07:16So like when I see his old pictures, he was always attractive.
07:19Either way he looked good.
07:21I feel like before I transitioned I was pretending.
07:24And now I'm just like being myself.
07:26So like I don't really recall this person cause I just feel like it was just like an act.
07:32The way London changed my life for the better is she has helped me find the confidence in me that
07:37I didn't see in me before.
07:38And also she makes me feel like there's low limits.
07:41I can do whatever I want in this world.
07:43And I feel like he's made me see myself for who I am.
07:45I'm a lot happier with him.
07:47And a lot more at peace with life.
07:49Stay my life 100% peaceful.
07:51We're going to be ourselves whether people like it or not.
07:53So it's just like it don't matter what anybody says.
07:56We're still going to be together.
07:59We're still going to be trans.
08:00It's just like we're happy.
08:02And if us being happy bothers you so much then there's a lot of self reflecting to do.
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