Jamie Raines

Jamie Anthony Lotun-Raines[3][4][5] (born 19 February 1994[6]) is an English YouTuber and LGBT advocate.[7] His videos include commentary on gender identity and other LGBTQ+ issues as well as general lifestyle topics. Raines is a trans man and has documented his gender transition, including the effects of hormone replacement therapy and gender reassignment surgery.[8] His channel, Jammidodger, has over one million subscribers.[2]

This article is about the YouTuber. For the biscuit, see Jammie Dodgers.

Jamie Lotun-Raines
Personal information
Born (1994-02-19) 19 February 1994
Colchester, Essex, England
Education
Occupation(s)Psychologist, YouTube personality
Spouse
Shaaba Lotun-Raines
​
(m. 2022)​
Websiteshaabaandjamie.com
YouTube information
Also known asJammidodger
Channel
Years active2011–present
Genre(s)LGBTQIA+, commentary
Subscribers1.0 million[1]
Total views225.1 million[2][1]
Associated actsNOAHFINNCE, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
Last updated: 12 March 2023

Early and personal life

Raines is from Colchester in Essex. He attended St Mary's School in Colchester, and later Colchester Sixth Form College.[7] He has not disclosed his deadname, and has stated that he sees no reason for others to know it.[9]

Raines recalls feeling like a boy from the age of four. At the age of 16, he realized he was transgender after watching a documentary involving a trans man and relating to their shared experiences.[8] He describes his family and close friends as being immediately supportive and choosing the name Jamie with their help.[10] In order to document the physical changes he underwent during his transition, Raines took a photograph of himself each day for three years.[11]

Raines is married to fellow YouTuber Shaaba Lotun-Raines (née Lotun).[12][13][14][15] Both are bisexual.[16] The two met in a college art class and became close friends prior to Raines' transition.[8] When Raines came out, Lotun's family initially disapproved of their relationship, but quickly grew to support the two's relationship.[12] Each makes semi-regular appearances on the other's YouTube channel.[17]

Raines received his Gender Recognition Certificate late in 2019, which allows him to be recognised as a man in marriage.[18] He describes this as marking the end of his transition process.[19] The couple had initially planned to marry in 2020 but they chose to delay the wedding due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, which would have prevented members of Lotun's Mauritian extended family from attending, eventually marrying in 2022.[20]

Career

YouTube

Raines started the YouTube channel Jammidodger in 2011.[2] The title is a reference to his name and to Jammie Dodgers, a popular type of biscuit in the UK. Having found YouTube videos to be a useful resource when discovering his own gender identity, he started the channel to provide a UK perspective on the transition process as well as to document the process for himself.[8]

Over time the channel has evolved to cover broader LGBT+ issues and also more general lifestyle content such as reacting to internet memes and subreddits, and reviewing cat toys.[21] Raines was prominent among the many YouTubers to make videos criticising the views about trans people expressed by J. K. Rowling.[22]

In 2020, both Raines and Lotun made videos as part of Southend Council's Protect Your Fam project to encourage social distancing, hand-washing and mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic.[23]

In addition to frequently appearing in videos with his wife, Shaaba, Raines has made videos collaborating with other YouTubers such as Jessica Kellgren-Fozard and NOAHFINNCE.

Research

Raines has a master's degree[7] and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Essex. He was awarded his doctorate in 2021.[24][25][26] He has conducted research into the sexual response of transgender men[27] as well as other topics related to gender and sexuality.[28]

Writing

Raines' first book, The T in LGBT: Everything you need to know about being trans (ISBN 9781785044298), is scheduled for release in June 2023 published by Ebury Publishing's Vermilion imprint.[29]

Reception

Raines series of daily selfies, which he took during three years of his gender transition, were compiled into a 20-second montage for the Channel 4 television documentary Girls To Men[21][11][30]

Raines was featured in the Channel 4 documentary series Bride and Prejudice covering the tensions within Lotun's family in the run up to their engagement.[7]

Awards

In 2020, Raines was a finalist in the LGBTQ+ Account section at the 12th Shorty Awards.[31]

In 2022, Raines won the Online Influencer award at the British LGBT Awards.[32]

References
  1. "About Jammidodger". YouTube.
  2. "Jammidodger - YouTube". www.youtube.com.
  3. @jammi_dodger94 (28 January 2021). "It's officially OFFICIAL! I feel like I've posted about this a lot, and I have been Dr Raines since I passed my viv…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: FTM transgender: How I Chose my Name. YouTube.
  5. Lotun, Shaaba; Raines, Jamie (29 September 2022). "reacting to your wedding assumptions 👀". YouTube. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  6. "I Googled Myself || Birth Name & Income" – via www.youtube.com.
  7. "Transgender groom hopes to win over prejudices on Channel 4 show". Gazette.
  8. "This transgender man documented his amazing journey on YouTube for over five years". Independent.ie.
  9. FTM Transgender: My Birth name, retrieved 14 June 2021
  10. Light, Kate (2017). Gender identity : the search for self. New York, NY. p. 53. ISBN 9781534560246.
  11. "Watch: Trans man took a selfie every day for three years during transition". Attitude.co.uk. 8 October 2015. Archived from the original on 19 January 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  12. ""My mum wouldn't accept my trans boyfriend"". Cosmopolitan. 11 October 2018.
  13. Bakar, Faima (27 September 2018). "Muslim woman explains difficulties of marrying her transgender best friend".
  14. "Shaaba. - YouTube". www.youtube.com.
  15. "Husband & Wife Q&A. - YouTube". www.youtube.com.
  16. "Bisexuals React to Bisexual TikTok" – via www.youtube.com.
  17. "Jamie Raines". Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  18. "Why I Can't Get Married Right Now" – via www.youtube.com.
  19. "This Marks The End of My Transition" – via www.youtube.com.
  20. "We Cancelled Our Wedding" – via www.youtube.com.
  21. "Trans man shares his transition experience in amazing YouTube videos". GCN. 20 December 2019.
  22. Dodgson, Lindsay. "YouTube's transgender community is speaking out against JK Rowling's latest 'transphobic' comments". Insider.
  23. "Social media stars push social distancing and face coverings in council's £10k Covid campaign". Echo.
  24. Raines, Jamie (9 January 2021). Being Transgender: Effects of Behaviour, Arousal and Wellbeing (phd). University of Essex – via repository.essex.ac.uk.
  25. "What Science Says About Trans Men" – via www.youtube.com.
  26. "Sexual responsiveness of transgender men matches their identity". University of Essex. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  27. Raines, Jamie; Holmes, Luke; Watts-Overall, Tuesday M.; Slettevold, Erlend; Gruia, Dragos C.; Orbell, Sheina; Rieger, Gerulf (26 February 2021). "Patterns of Genital Sexual Arousal in Transgender Men". Psychological Science. 32 (4): 485–495. doi:10.1177/0956797620971654. PMID 33635743.
  28. "Jamie RAINES | University of Essex, Colchester | Department of Psychology".
  29. The T in LGBT.
  30. "Girls To Men - Jamie's Transgender Transmission Timelapse" – via www.youtube.com.
  31. "Jammi Dodger - The Shorty Awards". shortyawards.com.
  32. "Winners 2022".
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