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Nikkie de Jager, 25, better known as NikkieTutorials to her 12-million-plus subscribers, revealed that she is a transgender woman in a video that was trending on Twitter on Monday night and continued to be the most-watched video on YouTube on Tuesday afternoon, with over 20 million views. She disclosed her gender identity after facing blackmail threats by people who wanted to take her story to the media for profit. Announcing her transgender identity was “a way for her to reclaim her power,” she said. Nikkie was taking hormone blockers and growth stoppers to help her transition by age 14, with the support she received from her mother and schoolteachers, she said. By age 19, de Jager said, she had “fully transitioned.” She said she always wanted to reveal her transgender experience, but being blackmailed forced her to speed up her timeline.
Source: Washington Post
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