YouTuber Brendan Jordan has come out
transgender.
The Nevada teen made his announcement
in introducing transgender fashion model Andreja Pejic at last week's
Time to THRIVE conference, an LGBT youth conference organized by the
Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
“[Fame has] given me a platform to be
a voice for a young generation, and allowed me to be connected in a
bigger way to a huge community of supporters,” Jordan
told the crowd. “I'm very lucky and very blessed. I have
parents who are very supportive of who I am and me living my truth.”
“Like most teenagers, I'm still
figuring it out. I'm starting to identify as one, or as part, of the
trans community. I can't really label it, because, you know, some
days my more feminine side comes out – the 'she.' Some other days
I don't feel like putting on my fabulous mask, and the 'he' comes
out, and I'm totally OK with that.”
“And I don't know who I am, or where
I will be going in the future, who I will be 10 years from now, but
I'm still a teenager. I just like the limitless feeling of it, and
I'm perfectly fine with who I am now. I just identify with both
genders, so I go by the pronouns he or she and it's just what I'm
happy with,” he added.
After his appearance, Jordan tweeted:
“Yes I am. gender fluid is usually the mix of a boy and a girl
which all falls under the general term, transgender.”
Jordan became a video sensation when he
posed in the background of a live news shot in Las Vegas. The three
most viewed videos from that segment have been viewed almost 10
million times. Jordan parlayed this accidental fame into bona fide
stardom on his YouTube channel and social media.