While Van Hess, who is currently following a childhood dream of training to become a figure skater, still prefers to use he/him pronouns, he says that he adores femme culture and feels “like my feminine identity is what makes me the strongest”.

With an Instagram account that’s full of photos of himself wearing skirts and dresses that automatically end up on our must-buy lists, and videos showing him dancing in heels to Beyoncé that can get us through even the bleakest Monday, we’re eternally grateful that he shares that side of himself.

But unfortunately it wasn’t always like that: “When I was really young, I had really femme-shamey, gender-shamey [comments] when I would dress like that. When I would play with those things, I knew it needed to be before the sun came up or after the sun came down, like, in the basement and it needed to be something I couldn’t wear to school.”

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