Leo T. Watts

Leo will follow the lives of 5 female to male transgender people of color who have been on hormone therapy for five years and beyond as they navigate their professional, personal, and social lives. Documenting these vital experiences on video will capture the emotional development directly related to hormone therapy and the shift in day-to-day life perception as a male of color.

Leo will write a fictional novel on Darius Donovan, a Black female to male transgender, who finds himself landing at Philadelphia's International Airport after recovering from chest reconstruction surgery in his hometown. Plagued with visions of his mother's gruesome death, we see the character embark on a journey of self-discovery, encountering obstacles in dating, employment and his overall adjustment as a Black man in a new city. Darius befriends a fellow transman while searching for closure to unanswered questions about the past his mother always kept from him. Though his search, Darius quickly realizes the cost of being out in a community which once embraced him.