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"Ryan Cassata—Civil rights icon, fearless performer and headstrong teen." - Long Island Pulse Magazine, 2012
“Who needs a boy band, when you got a guy like this? It’s Ryan Cassata.” - 91.5 FM WRPI

I can’t believe I have to post this video again. I’m bullied almost every day by another transgender female to male identified person. It’s getting ridiculous. 

Here are a couple of things people who are trans (FTM) identified have said to me:

“LOL you need more T you still look like a girl, dude :P EDIT: You even have a girly voice, wtf is wrong with you .__. take your fucking T” 

“So you say that you don’t want to go on T because it will change your voice. Well cis guys go through puberty whether they want to or not, so don’t you feel you’re taking advantage of being trans by doing that and not going through puberty like a normal male? They have to retrain their voice so why don’t you just do that? Your voice will sound the same singing wise, it’s not going to “make it any worse”. If anything it’s made mine better. You’ll just have to adjust like every other guy.”

“It’s out of place for a male to have a voice in your range.”

“I believe you’ll probably get MORE oppertunities for your career if you go on testosterone. People also might take you a bit more seriously, because you’ll look older, and sound more male and less “kidlike”.”

I’m excluding their tumblr user names so they do not get attacked. 

Where is the respect within this community? We can’t expect people outside of the community to respect us until we respect within the community…

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