micdotcom:

At Ashton Colby’s final beauty pageant in late 2011, where he was competing for the title of Miss Ohio 2012, he lost. As the pageant closed, he cried in his dad’s arms and lookers-on believed that he was weeping for his lost title. But Colby was weeping for a much different reason. 

Colby would begin his transition to male six months later, in early 2012. Four years later, he’s telling his story very publicly on YouTube — all to prove a point about trans people.