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Chris Tysonis sharing an update with their fans after starting hormone replacement therapy.
In aTwitter post on Monday, the social media star, known for appearing alongsideMrBeaston hispopular YouTube channelwith 153 million subscribers, shared an old photo of themselves alongside an updated image.
The 26-year-old added in the text of the post: “Me when Breath of the Wild came out VS. me when Tears of the Kingdom came out.” The photos show the internet personality dressed in similar black T-shirts and showcase a new look for Tyson, who startedtreatments in February.
Since starting hormone replacement therapy (HRT) — which the Cleveland Clinic explains as a process that helps gender nonconforming people achieve a more traditionallymasculineorfeminineappearance — Tyson has beensharing frequent updateswith their fans.
After news of their transformation began to make headlines, Tyson spoke out about the treatment in aTwitter post in April, writing: “Informed consent HRT saved my and many others' lives. The hurdles [gender nonconforming] people have to jump through to get life-saving gender-affirming healthcare in a 1st world country is wild to me. Just let people make informed decisions about their own bodies.”
That same month, Tyson noted thattheir hairline and facial shape had already begun to changeand that they felt good about the process,explaining at the time: “The amount of body positivity I’ve gotten in just 2 months is insane.”
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Tyson has also been vocal about their sexuality after coming outas bisexualon social media in 2010. They explained that they previously attempted to come out when they were 16 but “got a lot of negative backlash from friends/family.”
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“Just know if the people around you don’t love and support you we always will,” Tyson wrote on Twitter at the time. “Someday I’d like to go into detail about more of this but I’m still very private about it due to things that happened when I tried coming out. I just don’t want to be silent about it anymore.”
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source: people.com
