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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦

@mavenofmayhem.bsky.social

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2x bestselling author, award-winning journalist, human rights advocate, speaker, trans guy, poly, dad to 5 great kids. He/Him Protect trans kids.🏳️‍⚧️

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · Nov 15

Oh hey, new followers! 👋

I’m Rowan, a trans guy from Toronto, Canada. I’m 48 and have been on HRT for just over a year. It’s been the best year of my life.

It’s never too late to transition and live the life that feels right to you. I’ll make sure to remind you of that from time to time.
🏳️‍⚧️🩵

A man with salt and pepper hair stands in a living room with arms crossed and wearing a black t-shirt.

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 1d

Is it raining today? Yes.

Have I gotten out of my PJs? No.

Am I throwing pizza in the oven for dinner? First I’m going to see if the dog will do it for me but I don’t think it’ll work.

A black and white dog lays under a body pillow.

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever you feel like the world is made up of all bad stuff I want you to remember senior dogs ❤️

Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 5d

Of course! It’s hosted by a mom of a trans kid whose family successfully left the US. I hope it helps.

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 7d

In case you needed some good news today, we secured our financing for our trans-owned and operate cafe today!!

This is a huge milestone. We’re thrilled the bank and the federal government believed in this dream and the plan to make it come alive. Can’t wait to open our doors soon.
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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 7d

We’ve earned every whisker 🏆

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 7d

HRT is wild

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 11d

Just in case you needed to see two trans people in love today ❤️❤️

A man and a woman stand outside in holding each other and smiling. The Toronto skyline at golden hour is behind them.

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes you have a double ear infection so your mom and dad have to bring you a friend to help you feel better ❤️‍🩹

A brown lab mix stares intently at a sloth stuffie being held above his head

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 13d

Once upon a time I had really cool hair but also a really sad heart so I prioritized making my heart smile. 🏳️‍⚧️

A side by side of Rowan before and after medical transition. Rowan has short pink wavy hair before and silver shorter hair now

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats bud!

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 14d

The way I just laughed.

Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks. 💜 It’s been a wild time in my head and heart over the last few weeks. Really glad to have that behind me. But I also learned a lot about living in the moment and finding moments of joy in uncertainty. Taking that with me.

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 14d

If you’re in/near Toronto, I cannot say enough good stuff about Women’s College Hospital. They were not only affirming to me as a trans man, but my partner had a mammo there as a trans women and they were great with her too. They made a tough situation easier.

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 14d

I feel it’s important to talk about this stuff as a transmasc person because breast cancer can happen to us too. Heck, even cis men can get it. Please get that tissue checked out sometimes okay? It can be dysphoric AF (it really was) but am I ever glad that testing exists.

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 14d

Trans man here. My top surgery scheduled for this week was postponed because they found something on my mammogram. I was called in for another mammogram/ultrasound. Then I had a biopsy last week.

Results came back yesterday. I’m cancer-free. Top surgery has been rescheduled for Oct. 24.

Exhale.

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 16d

I tagged Disney in a post last night saying we cancelled our subscription and I’d like to think that’s what tipped them over.

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 19d

Oh.

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Eleanor @eleanorturney.co.uk · 20d

As the world continues to be a terrible place, I need you all to know that my friend's dinosaur-obsessed one-year-old saw dinosaurs with feathers at the Natural History Museum and now calls them "fluffy rar-rars".

FLUFFY RAR-RARS.

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 22d

As two people who have been online a lot and for a long time, and been asked “who cares?!” a lot, @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social and I tackled the topic of being online in this week’s episode of the podcast

20: Who we are online (and why)

Personas, curation and oversharing on our 20th episode(!)

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 22d

If, in all this chaos and hardship, you were able to take even a single moment to appreciate something today—no matter how small that something was—you won the game. All we have is today, and you found something good in it.

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 28d

There’s so much anger and fear out there tonight. So I would like to give you a timeline cleanser. This is Willow. She doesn’t hate anyone. She isn’t afraid of much either. She loves to cuddle and take care of people. She’s all love.

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 28d

Well then

From a CNN article:

What Kirk was talking about: “A kid came up and he asked a question about how many transgender shooters there were, and Charlie gave him another comment. And then he asked one more question, and so the question was about shooters. And before Charlie Kirk could pick up the mic again, that’s when the shot happened,” Terry recounted for CNN.

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · Sep 8

As a trans person I’m going to ruin your life by going to the thrift store right now and buying that thing before you get there

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · Sep 4

The absolute magic of being true to yourself 🪄 🏳️‍⚧️

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’ve been overwhelmed by the expectations put on me by the world, and also catch myself putting unrealistic (or potentially harmful) expectations on the people around me. That’s what @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social and I talk about on this week’s episode of Unboxing It.

18: Expectations

In which we toss some rules into the sea

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