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A new man

ByAndrés Juárez Troncoso
The photographic project “A New Man” touches on two important points for the LGBT+ community; TRANS men and their visibility. When I mention “TRANS men” or “transmasculine men” I speak of subjects who at birth were assigned to the female sex, taking into account their genitality, but who gradually build a masculine gender identity. When talking about TRANS visibility, I focus on a transgender or transsexual person, who makes public his or her transition story, perhaps with the aim of informing and raising awareness of the issue and educating to generate respect for TRANS identities. An act of visibility is to name something that has been silenced and therefore many consider it non-existent. “A New Man” seeks to make explicit that visibility not only in the area close to the transmasculine person, but to become visible in other spheres outside it.
The photographic project “A New Man” touches on two important points for the LGBT+ community; TRANS men and their visibility. When I mention “TRANS men” or “transmasculine men” I speak of subjects who at birth were assigned to the female sex, taking into account their genitality, but who gradually build a masculine gender identity. When talking about TRANS visibility, I focus on a transgender or transsexual person, who makes public his or her transition story, perhaps with the aim of informing and raising awareness of the issue and educating to generate respect for TRANS identities. An act of visibility is to name something that has been silenced and therefore many consider it non-existent. “A New Man” seeks to make explicit that visibility not only in the area close to the transmasculine person, but to become visible in other spheres outside it.
The photographic project “A New Man” touches on two important points for the LGBT+ community; TRANS men and their visibility. When I mention “TRANS men” or “transmasculine men” I speak of subjects who at birth were assigned to the female sex, taking into account their genitality, but who gradually build a masculine gender identity. When talking about TRANS visibility, I focus on a transgender or transsexual person, who makes public his or her transition story, perhaps with the aim of informing and raising awareness of the issue and educating to generate respect for TRANS identities. An act of visibility is to name something that has been silenced and therefore many consider it non-existent. “A New Man” seeks to make explicit that visibility not only in the area close to the transmasculine person, but to become visible in other spheres outside it.
The photographic project “A New Man” touches on two important points for the LGBT+ community; TRANS men and their visibility. When I mention “TRANS men” or “transmasculine men” I speak of subjects who at birth were assigned to the female sex, taking into account their genitality, but who gradually build a masculine gender identity. When talking about TRANS visibility, I focus on a transgender or transsexual person, who makes public his or her transition story, perhaps with the aim of informing and raising awareness of the issue and educating to generate respect for TRANS identities. An act of visibility is to name something that has been silenced and therefore many consider it non-existent. “A New Man” seeks to make explicit that visibility not only in the area close to the transmasculine person, but to become visible in other spheres outside it.
The photographic project “A New Man” touches on two important points for the LGBT+ community; TRANS men and their visibility. When I mention “TRANS men” or “transmasculine men” I speak of subjects who at birth were assigned to the female sex, taking into account their genitality, but who gradually build a masculine gender identity. When talking about TRANS visibility, I focus on a transgender or transsexual person, who makes public his or her transition story, perhaps with the aim of informing and raising awareness of the issue and educating to generate respect for TRANS identities. An act of visibility is to name something that has been silenced and therefore many consider it non-existent. “A New Man” seeks to make explicit that visibility not only in the area close to the transmasculine person, but to become visible in other spheres outside it.
The photographic project “A New Man” touches on two important points for the LGBT+ community; TRANS men and their visibility. TRANS men and their visibility. When I mention “TRANS men” or “transmasculine men” I am talking about subjects who were I am talking about subjects who at birth were assigned to the female sex, taking into account their genitality, but who are gradually gradually build a masculine gender identity. When talking about TRANS visibility, I focus on a transgender focus on a transgender or transsexual person, who makes public his or her transition story, perhaps with the aim of informing and the goal of informing and publicizing the issue and educating to generate respect for TRANS identities. An act of visibility is to name something that has been silenced and therefore many consider it non-existent. “A New Man” seeks to make explicit that visibility not only in the area close to the transmasculine person, but also to make himself visible. transmasculine person, but to become visible in other spheres outside of him.
The photographic project “A New Man” touches on two important points for the LGBT+ community; TRANS men and their visibility. When I mention “TRANS men” or “transmasculine men” I speak of subjects who at birth were assigned to the female sex, taking into account their genitality, but who gradually build a masculine gender identity. When talking about TRANS visibility, I focus on a transgender or transsexual person, who makes public his or her transition story, perhaps with the aim of informing and raising awareness of the issue and educating to generate respect for TRANS identities. An act of visibility is to name something that has been silenced and therefore many consider it non-existent. “A New Man” seeks to make explicit that visibility not only in the area close to the transmasculine person, but to become visible in other spheres outside it.
The photographic project “A New Man” touches on two important points for the LGBT+ community; TRANS men and their visibility. When I mention “TRANS men” or “transmasculine men” I speak of subjects who at birth were assigned to the female sex, taking into account their genitality, but who gradually build a masculine gender identity. When talking about TRANS visibility, I focus on a transgender or transsexual person, who makes public his or her transition story, perhaps with the aim of informing and raising awareness of the issue and educating to generate respect for TRANS identities. An act of visibility is to name something that has been silenced and therefore many consider it non-existent. “A New Man” seeks to make explicit that visibility not only in the area close to the transmasculine person, but to become visible in other spheres outside it.

“I was not born as you see me, I am a landscape that blooms day by day. Little by little I perceive congruence between what I feel and what I see. I cannot renounce the eroticism of being a man. I do not pretend to be the same as you, nor to be anyone I am not. I don’t live someone else’s life.

I live a very great frustration because you do not accept me. You do violence to me. You examine me with infectious eyes. You are shocked. You look at me deeply looking for that painful ambiguity that I live day by day. You search for that schism between your body and mine, you confront it, you sentence me and you push me away. With devilish eyes you remove my clothes, you dismember me. You look at my chest, you warn me.

You look at my crotch, you doubt it. You squeeze my being, you oppress me. When you recognize me, you give me the final thrust. You kill me.

And I at the end of the day, I look at my body and I perceive it still confused. But don’t feel bad, don’t apologize. My goal is to be me, because this body belongs to me alone. And then I get up, I contemplate myself again and little by little I begin to accept myself, to love myself.

These are times of light, times of rebirth; of being who I truly am.”

Andrés Juárez Troncoso