Hannah Phillips

Hannah Phillips (born: )https://youtu.be/U-l8oczER2U is a transgender British filmmaker and YouTuber from Hampshire, England. She started her YouTube channel in 2015, although Hannah has been creating content on YouTube since 2012, before opting to shift her focus to transgender-related topics, vlogs and short films in July of 2015.
Originally there was an additional YouTube channel title suffix "REAL", this is actually an abbreviation of the phrase "Representative of Equality, Acceptance and Love". It has since been removed from her channel, but still holds its place after all of Hannah's social media handles and website.
== History ==
Born in the South of England, Hannah joined YouTube on May 12, 2012. In the beginning, Hannah produced gaming videos on a channel that has yet to be publicly named, primarily based around Minecraft. It is rumoured that this channel amassed over 70,000 subscribers before it's termination in 2015. During this time, Hannah worked along side BadBoyHalo with his Livestreams and supported him with creating thumbnails around the popular, now shut down, Minecraft server McPvP.
Hannah has hinted in livestreams both on Instagram and TikTok that she stopped focusing on her original channel and gaming videos in early 2015. Following a hiatus of nearly half a year, Hannah returned to YouTube with a self-titled channel Hannah PhillipsHannah Phillips - YouTube, which has been her main channel since 2015. On March 19, 2016, Hannah launched another two channels, Hannah Phillips Vlogs and Hannah Phillips Games, both of these channels were active until Hannah announced they would be discontinued on January 1, 2017. Later that same year on February 23rd, Hannah launched another channel, Stoory, which later was rebranded as Novanoid, this channel only has 4 uploads since it's creation, two of which are edited down Fortnite livestreams.
== Personal Life ==
Hannah was assigned male at birth, and started hormone blockers at 16 years old; a year and a half later she decided to start Estrogen on September 2, 2017https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q13ulJsBKXM. On October 11, 2022, Hannah came out as bisexual in a video titled "Yeah... I'm COMING OUT!!!https://youtu.be/BRVJeFGVB64"
Most of Hannah's personal life is unknown prior the age of 14, although it's known that she had a prominent presence within performing arts from the age of 6, where she started to take ballet classes before making her stage debut just a month before her seventh birthday.
Hannah moved to the New Forest in Decemeber of 2004, where she attended a local primary school in the small countryside village of Brockenhurst, she lived in this village until she was 18 years old.
During her time at secondary school she met her current boyfriend James, who co-directed one of her official short films "the trans debate."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6jQigy8im0
, it's unannounced exactly when they got together.
In the middle of March, 2018, she moved to the seaside town of Lymington with her parents. She left home a month after she turned 22 years old, the reason for a sudden and unannounced departure is unknown to the public. Following leaving home she stopped uploading to Youtube until June 11, 2022, when she returned with a movie titled "i want my life back."https://youtu.be/K3v5CO6FcBo. During this movie she shows herself in a hostel where she talks about being homeless.
Hannah has a dog named Kai, a Westie-Jack Russel cross breed, which she got when she was 13 years old. Currently Hannah's parents look after her dog.
== Content ==
As a transgender woman she makes videos on LGBT culture and lifestyle, as well as documenting dealing with the day to day struggles of being transgender. Hannah is known to produce vlogs, short films, "How To's", gaming content and reaction videos. She also is known to give advice to transgender youth, primarily to thoses transitioning from male to female, but has also created a handful of movies helping those who are transitioning from female to male.
=== Hannah's Team ===
Though the origins and the actually teams work is unknown, it is known to have formed at the start of 2018.
Hannah has stated multiple of times that she doesn't work alone to produce her movies, one of the most well known individuals to have worked along side Hannah is Coffy Lessighttps://twitter.com/HannahPhillipsR/status/1474129240568344583, the child of 2016 USA presidential candidatehttps://twitter.com/lessig/status/1396558655273775106 Lawrence Lessighttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig.
Another notable individual who has worked along side Hannah is Droyti, an American YouTuber known for music production and game development.
The member of the team who has been there from the very start is Alex Procter, a British and former-YouTuber, known to have amassed a fairly sized audience along side Hannah's first channel in mid-2012.
Over the years other members of this production team have included an Alice, Eli, Reef, Chelsea, Millie, Lexi and Gadget.
== Political Election ==
On April 5, 2023, New Forest District Council announced that Hannah would be standing for a seat the United Kingdom local election on May 4, 2023https://newforest.gov.uk/2023electionnotices for both Town Council, (Buckland Ward, a small section of Lymington and Pennington Town Council) and District Council (Representing Lymington Town). Hannah ran as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats, only on the bases that they were "the only poltical party which defended the rights of transgender individuals" as Hannah stated on Instagram.
On May 6, 2023, Hannah announced to the public that she won the election on her Twitterhttps://twitter.com/HannahPhillipsR/status/1654928545896976385, Facebook and Instagram. Not only did she get the most votes out of any candidates, but also got more votes than the previous Town Mayor and Deputy Town Mayor.
During her announcement video she stated "It is wonderful to be the first transgender town councillor within the New Forest", making this a historic election result as she officially is the first transgender town councillor within the whole of the New Forest.
== Subscriber Milestones ==
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
* 1,000 Subscribers: February 24, 2016
* 5,000 Subscribers: March 10, 2019
* 10,000 Subsribers: December 19, 2020
== Trivia ==
* Hannah went to the same secondary school as ImAllexx and Belle Delphinehttps://twitter.com/imallexx/status/1146026068530343937?lang=en.
* Hannah was in the same drama class as Belle Delphine at secondary school.
* Hannah was the first transgender YouTuber to upload a video every day for a yearhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7671945/Transgender-teenager-documenting-transition-YouTube-sent-death-threats.html.
== References ==
Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:English YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2015
Category:LGBT YouTubers
Category:Verified YouTubers