What would winning this competition mean to you?

"The goal was to get on the leader board to raise awareness. That was the initial goal: Make a statement, get a trans man on the cover. That was it! Get a trans guy on the cover of Men's Health. I made a video about it on my YouTube channel and it just got shared and shared and shared. Within hours of making that video I was number one [on the leaderboard] in the competition.

I feel like me personally and the transgender community as a whole have the same feelings. It's bringing visibility, its bringing awareness. I used to be one of those kids that was depressed and didn't see anyone I could look up to. Even just someone out there who was living a different lifestyle and having some type of happiness — no fame or fortune, just happy. That's all you want when you're a kid. [Getting on the cover] would mean there was this new generation saying, 'Hey, I can have a happy life, I can be successful, i'm not as weird as I thought I was.' You just want to feel community, a sense of respect, acknowledgment, to feel heard, to have a space at the table."