“I mean, I haven’t started my hormones fully so it doesn’t matter imo.”
“It really makes no difference to me,” she told me via Twitter. While my general instinct as a transgender ally is to use “she”, it dawned on me that it would be most appropriate to reach out and ask Keading herself. Keading says that she’ll continue filming porn for the next four to five months, then begin hormone replacement therapy in the new year.Īfter the whole Chelsea Manning debacle, I’m trying to be extremely conscious of the pronoun I use to describe Keading. The adult performer formerly (?) known as “ Matthew Keading” recently came out as transgender, stating that she’s known she identified as a female for more than half her life.
Matthew Keading: What Do You Do When A Gay Porn Star Comes Out As Trans?