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If the video makes you feel a but awkward or uncomfortable, that’s okay. Renard is just trying to offer an honest look at what it’s like to be in his skin.

“To me the video is uncomfortable because that’s what I feel in my own body everyday,” said Renard. “To me the breasts are all over the place, and they’re bouncing around, and they’re following gravity, and they have a life of their own, and there’s nothing I can do about it.”

There is an important caveat here: there’s a cultural preoccupation with the bodies of transgender people and what anatomical bits they may or may not have. At best, it’s objectifying and detracts from conversations about what it’s like to live as a transgender person — not to mention it’s plain rude. At worst, it affects the safety and well-being of transgender people, from where they’re housed if imprisonedto what gender they may have on government-issued identification to the high prevalence of assault committed against transgender individuals.

All that being said, Renard is putting it all out there in hopes of providing both education and visibility for trans issues.

“I would explain to friends and family what [binding] is and then I realized that most people have no idea what the daily life of a trans guy is. That made me say, OK then, I’m just going to strip and show what it is,” he said.

He’s also not the first transgender person to turn to crowdfunding to raise money for surgery or other treatment and the trend is indicative of the difficulty transgender people have accessing health care.