FOR ALL THE SELF-MADE MEN.
Welcome, dudes!
Welcome to the Trans Guy Archive! This is a collaborative archive for all the self-made men in the LGBTQ+ community. We strive to make transmasculine history and culture freely and readily available.
In the fight for trans* justice and liberation, trans men/mascs have been largely ignored, both in society at large and within the LGBTQ+ community. Trans history largely skews in favor of trans women/femmes -- for better or for worse -- leaving many along the masculine spectrum feeling lost and alienated, even in their own community. This archive aims to serve as an informational and social space for all to learn about the beauty, vitality, and strength of trans men/masculine figures throughout the centuries. This is for all transsexual and transgender men, demiboys, butches, those who are "kinda guys", lesboys, transmascs, multigender, and anyone who falls along the masculine spectrum.
"[M]y work is not solely devoted to chronicling the past, but is a component of my organizing to help shape the future.” - Leslie Feinberg, from Transgender Warriors
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A few entries from the guestbook
Tumblr Anon
"THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CREATING THE TRANSGUYARCHIVE!! As a fellow trans archivist (though my focus is more on archiving 90s-early 2000s internet trans spaces, particularly web rings) I have SOOOOO much appreciation for fellow archivists of trans history!!! So thank you for continuing to do the good work!!!! and as a writer of queer (but mostly trans) historical fiction this resource has been INVALUABLE to my work. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you. "
Autumn, Kansas, USA
"Thank you so much for making this. I've felt outcasted in the trans community for a long time, due to how much trans men are pushed aside and shamed for finding joy and community with each other. Finding this website gives me hope, and I know is encouraging not just to me, but to many trans guys from all over. I really appreciate what you're building here."
Ezra J., Orem, Utah
"Thank you for helping me have courage to keep going."
Anonymous Australian
"this is awesome 😳 i love my community and it makes me happy to see that theres a whole ass archive for people like me 🥹keep doing what youre doing! its great!!!!"
Anonymous
"its really nice to see that there are other guys out there who still care 🥺 please keep doing what you're doing"
Anonymous
"im currently writing a paper over the invisibility of transmasculine people in queer history for my queer history class and i just wanted to say thank you so so so much for all that you've compiled and for making it easily available! there's one other archive ive been looking at but they lack an online database making most of the information aside from the 13 little snippets they have on their website inaccessible to me as someone whos like a billion miles away from it.
youre the best and i hope you keep doing what [you're] doing for as long as it makes you happy :)"
"Teenage trans guy from the south" (Tumblr Anon)
"I just discovered the trans guy archive and I'm in tears. I've been so disheartened about my trans masculinity recently and felt so unseen and unheard, both in my real life and online, but this made me feel so visible and honestly important. Just looking at website makes me feel like it really does get better. Thank you."
dragon-pdf (on Tumblr)
"ive just been scrolling through the archive for this past half hour and it is making me so EMOTIONAL. those are my people those are my fucking people!!! from years ago and we've never met but they're like me!!! and just. god. thank you to everyone on the TGA team for working so hard on this project. The level of dedication... it's so beautiful. Deeeefinitely not considering changing the scope of my history major to be about trans mascs instead of about china noooo no dont worry about it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your work."
Theodore W., New Jersey, USA