“I’ve always been Sasha, but I didn’t always know what that meant," Sasha said. After discussing his body dysphoria with his boyfriend Noah and starting a GoFundMe in summer 2020, they raised $5,630 to pay for surgery. Here, Sasha stands for a portrait on Dec. 6, 2020, outside his father's home in Columbia, Missouri. He lived with family in the weeks following the operation.