Remember when Adam Levine stripped down to raise awareness of prostate and testicular cancer — or to raise awareness of his own hotness? Pretty sure it was one of those. Now, FTM Magazine, the all-in-one source for female to male culture, has recreated the shoot with sexy trans activist Aydian Dowling for the upcoming April issue.
“Some areas of my body used to remind me of everything I’m not,” said Dowling, founder of Point 5cc clothing. “Now they represent everything I am.”
Dowling originally started Point 5cc— a stealth clothing company highlighting transgender commonalities and creating a sense of pride — to fund his top surgery, but decided to keep it around to “give back to the community that had given so generously to him.”
In addition to a free binder exchange program, Point 5cc hosts an annual Transgender Surgery Fund.
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You can find more on Aydian in the April 2015 issue of FTM (right).
Below, check out Aydian’s YouTube journal documenting his transition:
h/t: Buzzfeed
IvanPH
Of all the men he could imitate, he chose the sexiest man alive?
Sorry but no.
Taskebab
@IvanPH: No no honey…Aydian chose to imitate Adam, not the other way around…
Captain Obvious
@IvanPH: You need to get your eyes checked. Levine looks like a little boy next to Aydian.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Gay? Straight? Bi? C’mon Queerty, It’s perfectly relevant information considering it’s a gay site ’n’ all
DarkZephyr
He IS hot. Both pics would be hotter without the woman hands in them.
ddean
I’m disgusted that anyone would say anything negative about him. I had a dear friend and business partner that went from a beautiful woman to a hot man and I helped him through the entire process. Everyone though we were a couple which was awesome because we had so much fun with it. After the final step of the transition we parted ways. Actually he broke all relationships from when he was a woman to a man. I never was upset about it because I understood it. I mean who wouldn’t want to be a man. LOL Anyway Aydian congrats to you. If I wasn’t married I’d be hunting you down for a date. You are not only sexy but completely confident and that’s even sexier. Please guys before judging him and saying negative things, think about what your doing. I’m certain he’s more of a man then most of you Queens. If you don’t like it fu**ing get off the page. I’m so impressed with his pic that looks like Adam. I think he’s hotter to boot. If you read this Aydian never let anything negative creep into your brain. I’m so proud of you and I don’t even know you. 🙂
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Take Robbie Rogers and Karl Malden place in a blender…
VampDC
No thanks. Stop seeking attention.
vive
@IvanPH, I find him far hotter than Adam Levine. (Except for the cake hairstyle.)
ethan_hines
@ddean: “I mean who wouldn’t want to be a man?” not only that but he can have easily have multiple orgasms and we can’t 🙁
Gruffling
I’m not a fan of the lip piercing but other than that he’s hot. People change hairstyles all the time so that’s not a factor.
But yeah the female hands ruin it a bit.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Okay I just watched the video and it seems he’s straight. Oh well. Kinda makes sense cause nothing seems gay about him at all! And nothing feminine. Amazing. Even his hands are fucking manly sexy. Wow, T is miraculous!
ingyaom
Doesn’t Adam Levine say he’s naked all the time and has sex every 20 minutes? He doesn’t look very confortable in that picture, though – kind of off-balance, like someone’s squeezing his balls.
SportGuy
Levine is so far from sexy!
sportyguy1983
Tattoos are so unattractive
Merv
Actually, biological males can achieve multiple orgasms. I’ve done it about three or four times in my life.
aliengod
Adam Levine is a real man and far better looking. There’s no comparison in my opinion.
NG22
My word, I find Aydian sexy. But the big disappointment for me wasn’t that he is a transman. It is that he is exclusively attracted to women.
So I view him just as I’d view Adam Levine — a cisgender heterosexual man — hot, but whatever.
LandStander
I find Aydian very sexy!
jwtraveler
I prefer Adam and I’m guessing that 99% of you would too if those hands were removed.
stranded
God damn, this man is gorgeous. Must hunt on the internet for more pictures…
rhino79
The plastic surgery community obviously hasn’t perfected mastectomy because those scars are Frankenstein-level gruesome. And the nipple placement looks wonky and weird. And no, I don’t feel bad judging his body. If you want to take naked pictures of your surgically-altered body and post them on the Internet for the public’s aesthetic perusal, then I am going to comment on it.
Saint Law
@aliengod: “Adam Levine is a real man and better looking”
Yes, because of course you’re the very criterion of a ‘real man’ aren’t you, pixie?
NG22
@Saint Law: I found his comment gross too. But I know he’s talking about the vag. But since Aydian only likes vag, he’s not an option for guys anyway, so it doesn’t much matter.
DarkZephyr
As I said above, I think he is HOT although I didn’t know that he was yet another hot straight guy.
Jacob23
@Captain Obvious:
“Levine looks like a little boy next to Aydian.”
– Even a little boy is more male than Aydian will ever be.
melewis
@Merv: I have to agree. Several times it’s been very unexpected, not to get too personal, but the most intense was with the guy I’ve been with for almost 20 years.
TransParency_
@NG22: You said: ” But since Aydian only likes vag, he’s not an option for guys anyway…” . That comment is all kinds of wrong. You are ASSUMING Aydan only likes vaginas because he identifies as straight; newsflash: guys have vaginas too. Also, you are assuming he doesn’t like penises, again, because he is straight; women have penises too. You are a cissexist, transphobic, genital essentialist bigot.
1898
Aydian is one of the most gorgeous men I’ve ever seen.
tricky ricky
@Captain Obvious: I bet you wouldn’t be saying that if the hands were removed from the crotches
tricky ricky
@TransParency_: BULLSH*T! he’s a lesbian. and men don’t have vaginas and women don’t have penises and cisgender is a made up term to denigrate people who are fine with the bodies they were born with.
Hugh Jwang
@tricky ricky: Kudos for telling it as it is! Aydian Dowling can wish all he wants to be a guy…and believe that he is, but that doesn’t change certain biological facts. My nephew is obsessed with Porsches, yet he drives a Honda; so he can wish all he wants that he drives a Porsche, and believe that it is, but if he were to race a another Porsche…a REAL Porsche, he’d get his doors blown off.
TK
@ethan_hines: Seriously? Then I guess you haven’t met the right person to give you “multiple orgasms”. The male body has many un-chartered endogenous zones, most don’t even know where they’re located. For those who enjoy a hot romp with a hot person, it’s a fun way to explore, someone else body and treat them to experiences that literally… blow your mind! Heck, my own partner… I drive him nuts, giving him orgasm after orgasm and no folks, an orgasm is not ejaculation. Unless you know what an orgasm is, you’re doomed to stick to the basics. Sex is way more than just… sex.
GeekE
They both look really good I think.
Doug
I wouldn’t kick Aydian out of bed at all.