The Cut - Gender Dysphoria, Gender Euphoria

Salgu Wissmath, a 33-year-old Korean American nonbinary photographer, had never heard that identifier growing up and didn’t come out until their late 20s. They’ve now been openly nonbinary for about five years. Wissmath’s experience is common for many transgender and nonbinary people who don’t have easy access to queer vocabulary or community. Like others who learned more about gender through social media, Wissmath says that watching YouTube videos of other nonbinary creatives and following their blogs on Tumblr are what allowed them to learn about gender dysphoria and discover their own gender identity. “Knowing that it took me such a long time to learn about and understand what gender dysphoria was made me want to do a project specifically about that,” they told the Cut.

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