Ruben Goldsbrough





The Body of a transman
As explained before a transman is a man that was born in a female body, but knows and feels more like a man.
When a person is transgender (this applies to transwomen, too) they feel as though they were born in the wrong body (this isn't always the case, but it's the best way I can explain it).
But A transgender person can alter their body to match how their mind feels. They can take hormones (it would be testosterone for transmen) and they can also get surgery (for transmen they can get genital reconstruction surgery or a breast removal surgery, sometimes they get their ovaries removed, too).
But not all transgender people choose to get surgery or take hormones. And that's okay, too.
Within this page im going to be doing a study into the bodies of transmen and how they feel within thre own skin.
The study will be done using transmen on t, pre t, post top surgery, pre top surgery, pre lower surgery and post lower surgery. By doing this it will allow me to see what changes hormorns and surgury do make and weather or not they are really needed.
A hand full of transmen have allowed me to see and draw there body shape as part of my project to use for charecter development. This is something that I have found really relivent and useful towards my studies as when starting the project it was something i never would have been able to do.
Due to the nature of this topic i have kept all the drawn images and names of the models private as some of the people included are stealth or not out to loved ones yet.
This is the body of a 24 years old transman, he is 4 years on T, 3 years post top surgery and very into fitness. When speaking to him he spoke about how he only became interested in fitness because he was unhappy with the extra weight he was carrying around is stomach, as they made him look curvy. By taking up body building he was able to give himself more of a V shape whilst loosing the extra body weight.
At 34 this transman is pre everything but fine with the way there body is for now. Very early into there transition this transman is confindent within his own skin, though he does plan to get top surgury and start on hormorns as soon as possiable.
At 25 this transman has just undergone chest surgery a few weeks ago going from a DD sized chest to complete flatness. He now feels free to be the man who he was born to be.
This transman wasnt confident enough to be shown from the front so instead agreed to be drawn from behind. Very early into there transition he is still having a hard time in excepting his body and has just started to attend the gym to loose weight and gain muscle, alot like the first transman spoken about. He choose to stand in this pose to show the muscel gain in his back off as this is what he's most proud of at this moment in time.




