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The Clik's Lucas Silveira: First Trans Man to Be Voted Canada's Sexiest Man!
by Veronica Lane | Article Date: 01/26/2010 11:47 AM
   
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Lucas Silveira, the openly transgender lead singer of Toronto alt-rock band The Cliks, became the first transgender man to win the Throw Your Underwear Award Male (Sexiest Canadian Man) in the year end reader's poll by Canada's premier music magazine.

Chart Attack reported this historical event almost didn't happen when Avril Lavign's ex, Deryck Whibley, momentarily took the lead, but in the end lost to Silveira by over 1000 votes.

In a 2007 interview with Kathy Belge, Silveira spoke openly about how he viewed his journey, "Because of the choice that I had to make, I started looking at trans in a very different way. I feel really invisible as a trans man because I'm not able to take Testosterone. I don't have the visual aspects that a man has, I'm not hairy, my body is different."

Oh, Grrrrr  He's cute!

I agree Janet. he's super cute. And he has chosen not to start HRT. He's had Top surgery, but he wants to make sure that other guys know that they DO have representation in the media world. Plus his music is fantastic :) I'd let him be my dirty king! XD (It's a song of theirs BTW. Dirty King. It's addictive. I love the Cliks)

Too cool! :D

very cool but... meh,... he doesn't look that good to me

No offense, but ugh.

Well you boys just dont know sexy when you see it! lol

I could eat him up with a spoon... >:-)

I think he's pretty good looking.  I have "Oh Yeah" (song from their album Snakehouse) on my iPod. 

Actually, I'm with Miniar and Arch on this one. Anyone who gels down their fringe that severely...  :o

Quote from: Fenrir on March 08, 2010, 05:40:36 PM
Actually, I'm with Miniar and Arch on this one. Anyone who gels down their fringe that severely...  :o

He typically doesn't look like that, hair wise.  At least, he didn't used to.

I'm sure some people are going to come down on me for this, but I have a hard time with "Canada's Sexiest Man" if, when I look at him, I see a sort of dykey girl instead of a man. And when he opens his mouth, he just reinforces that response.

I know there are different ways to be a man. I'm not dissing his gender identity or his trans-ness. I don't even care if he's legally male. But if the physical cues aren't there, then I won't read him as male. I'll respect his gender ID big time, but I only accept him as a man because he tells me he's a man. Otherwise, I wouldn't have a clue.

I think my sexual orientation might be a problem here. If I were pan or omni or bi, maybe it wouldn't be a problem; maybe Lucas' extreme androgyny wouldn't affect me this way. But I'm sexually attracted to men only. People I read as men even when they don't tell me they are men.

I used to think Bowie was hot in his genderbending heyday, but he came across to me as an androgynous man, not an androgynous woman.

Who got to vote, anyway? Wasn't it just a readers' poll in some magazine?

I get where you're coming from, Arch.  He does appear very androgynous because of the lack of T.  However I don't see it as extreme as you do.  I think he has a sufficiently masculine face (jaw line, cheek bones, and lips) and his singing voice goes low enough without T to pass IMHO.   

He's also had top surgery so I think it's safe to say without his shirt on, he'd look male regardless of feminine facial features.  His overall body type doesn't really say female to me either.

EDIT:  Meant to say female, not male in last sentence.

Quote from: Miniar on January 28, 2010, 03:57:03 PM
very cool but... meh,... he doesn't look that good to me

Same.

Hmm, he looks like he's built like me.

Well, I wouldn't be at all interested in him, but...whatever, to each their own :) It's not out of any lack of maleness, just not into that...style, I guess, or the people who wear it.

Yeah, I'm shallow and superficial. Sorry.

If I had to throw my underwear at Lucas Silveira OR Deryck Whibley, I think they'd go to Lucas, gel bang and all.