It all began when Charlie, the founder of Lesbian Alumni, discovered his true identity as a trans man through the depths of YouTube and started taking testosterone back in 2010. At the time, transitioning in the Midwest of the USA, he wanted nothing more than to blend into society and pass as a cis man.

However, many, many years later, Charlie faced a new problem—he wasn’t visible in queer spaces. Now that he was able to pass as a cisgender heteronormative man, he didn’t want it. He felt it was a weird purgatory being not queer enough for queer spaces, but too queer for heteronormative spaces.

Lesbian Alumni was made as a means for cis-passing transmen (and allies!) to identify each other without having to explain their bodies to complete strangers.