Jackson Bird

Jackson Eric Thomas Bird (born ) is a writer and LGBTQ advocate. He is a transgender man.
==Personal life==
Jackson grew up in North Texas, with very little exposure to the LGBT community. His parents are divorced. Jackson attended for two years, where he studied English and religion.
Jackson came out as trans at the age of twenty-five. He had top surgery in 2016. He is bisexual. He chose the name Jackson because his mother had considered that name had he been assigned male at birth.
==YouTube==
Jackson’s early videos were “Will it Waffle?,” where he “put random things on a waffle iron to see what would happen.” Jackson did not start posting intentionally until he began volunteering with the . This was before he came out as transgender.
On May 13, 2015, Jackson uploaded Coming Out, in which he came out as trans. He “had absolutely no fears about coming out” to Fandom Forward (formerly the Harry Potter Alliance).
In June 2017, Jackson gave a TED talk, on the topic of How to talk (and listen) to transgender people.”
He is a YouTube NextUp Creator and GLAAD Rising Star Digital Innovator.
==Podcasts==
From 2017 to 2019, Jackson created the podcast Transmission, where he spoke to a trans person about their experiences in each episode.
With Bo Méndez, Jackson is the co-host of the podcast Everything’s Bigger, where they discuss masculinity.
He is the host of the Good News Ride Home podcast.
==Book==
Jackson’s book, Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place: A Transgender Memoir, was published on September 24, 2019. The title is a reference to the Sorting Hat from Harry Potter.
Sorted was originally written as a . The zine was offered as a perk for his top surgery crowdfund.
==Subscriber milestones==
*80,000 subscribers: August 31, 2020
==Trivia==
*He runs a digitization business.
*Jackson is lactose intolerant.
*He auditioned for .
*Jackson is a descendant of .
==References==
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2010
Category:LGBT YouTubers