Photo: Chris Tyson Twitter
Chris Tyson, Youtube star known for appearing alongsideMrBeast, is setting the record straight about their new profile picture.
“To further my point about @chris he just changed his alt account @Christhealtgod profile picture to a sketch of himself,” the Twitter user wrote while sharing the animated image of Tyson, who recently started hormone replacement therapy. “It used to be a picture of him and his son. He can’t use a real picture because he knows he looks too masculine.”
“I just don’t want any more photos of Tucker out there than has to be👍” Tyson responded.
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Last week, Tyson first revealed on social media they started hormone replacement therapytwo months ago. According to the Cleveland Clinic, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) helps gender nonconforming people achieve a more traditionalmasculineorfeminineappearance.
“Informed consent HRT saved my and many others' lives,” Tysonwrote. “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.”
Reflecting on an old photo of themself, Tyson noted thattheir hairline and facial shape have already started to changesince beginning HRT and they feel good about the results.
“The amount of body positivity I’ve gotten in just 2 months is insane,” Tyson said at the time.
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Tyson also shared transformation photos of themself on Twitter from before and after starting their treatments. They even shared their excitement that others have been paying attention to their story.
“I’m genuinely so glad so many people are learning what HRT is and how it CAN and HAS helped so many people because of my tweet,” theywrote. I was super nervous to be public about this bc I’ve always been so private when it comes to this, but seeing conversations started bc of me is amazing."
“It makes everything so worth it,” Tyson added. “I’m so excited to have more conversations like this in the future with you all.”
Back in 2020, Tysoncame out as bisexualon social media. They explained that they previously attempted to come out when they were 16 but “got a lot of negative backlash from friends/family.”
“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.”
source: people.com
