The Self Made Men on Tumblr
The Self Made Men is a tool used to serve the transgender male community. On one end, we educate and promote awareness of our existence, needs and normalcy to individuals and groups in both the GLBT and Allied communities. Mirrored to this cause, our biggest concerns lie with the support and mentoring of other transgender people as a resource to transitioning and dealing with everyday life.
Jason Robert Ballard, Interviewed by OutSmart Magazine: Houston, TX
When Jason Robert Ballard smiles, his body exudes a level of confidence that makes you realize just how successful he’s going to be in life. With a chin lined with bristly light-brown stubble and bright blue eyes gleaming with big goals for the future, this twenty-six-year-old entrepreneur and Nazareth College advertising major bears a striking resemblance to Justin Timberlake straight out of The Social Network. But instead of creating a network to illegally share music files, Ballard, an open transman, has created, owns, and operates his own online company that serves as a one-stop, all-inclusive resource to drastically improve the visibility and awareness of the transgender male community—appropriately named The Self Made Men.
The Self Made Men | Q&A round 5
Jason and Rowan answer questions from their email, Tumblr and Facebook in this session of Q&As. Some language and topics may be unsuitable for young audiences.
If you’d like to submit a question, please go to theselfmademen.tumblr.com/ask
- 0:40 Which prosthetic is the least firm
- 1:30 Where do I go to get information about starting T
- 4:35 How do you search for surgeons?
- 6:08 What is a packer? What is meant by packing?
- 6:48 How can you get involved with the pen pal program?
- 8:20 What does questioning mean, in LGTBQQIA
- 9:54 Information on STPs/Receptacles
- 13:07 What are some good briefs to pack in?
- 14:54 Is Testosterone a form of birth control?
- 17:30 Shaving Pre-T
- 19:45 Hair cut tips
- 23:24 Friends fielding tough questions
- 25:30 Harnesses/Packing without a Jock Strap
- 26:00 Black heads on nipples after surgery
- 28:50 Silly Banter
- 30:50 Ending
Just added our last 3 videos! - 5 sets of Q&A videos and corresponding bloopers video as well as interviews with some big names in the community during last years PTHConference, staff stories and packer reviews.
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The way in which people interact with me because I’m disabled (I use a wheelchair most of the time) and the way in which people interact with me when they know I’m trans are quite similar. People think that this gives them some sort of a right to my body, a right to information about it, they’ll ask personal or invasive questions and not realise why those might not be appropriate. “Do you have a dick yet?” and “so what’s wrong? Why are you in a wheelchair?” don’t feel that different as questions, both uncomfortably invasive, and yet other disabled people ask me those sorts of questions about my transition, when I’m out, and other trans people ask me those sorts of questions about my disability when they know about it. I’ve had to work hard to reclaim the right to privacy about my body. Asking someone whether you can help them (and taking no for an answer), or asking someone their preferred pronouns, are far more appropriate than personal questions about somebody else’s body.
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