How do you create your own masculinity? “I’m intentional with my body, the space ar

How do you create your own masculinity? 

“I’m intentional with my body, the space around it, and the expectations of it. I didn’t transition until I was 30, so I had a lot of years to figure out who I was beyond gender. Being a man in the world is a weighty, strange, troubling, beautiful thing — and I’m grateful for the bullshit meter and compass I live by, and for the years I spent being invisible to the same culture that now welcomes me openly. It’s a perspective I don’t forget, and I think it gives me an orientation toward everyone — trans or not — that starts with character, not my projections of masculinity and femininity and whether or not you’re meeting or failing them.”– Thomas Page McBee, 34, Lower East Side, NYC

(From the photo series Masculinity Means, created for Medium.com’s WE ARE THE T! collaboration)