Buck Angel born June 5, is an American pornographic film actor and producer, and a motivational speaker. He is the founder of Buck Angel Entertainment, a media production company. A transsexual man, [2] he received the AVN Award as Transsexual Performer of the Year; he now works as an advocate, educator, lecturer, and writer.
Angel served on the Board of Directors of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation [3] [4] [5] [6] from to ; the foundation works to affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right through advocacy and education. Angel was born in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California [8] and assigned a female sex and female name. Angel described the bullying as harming his communication skills as a result of psychological distress.
To cope with his distress, he used alcohol and marijuana as a means of self-medication. After a suicidal gesture in high school, his parents sent him to therapy. They thought that he needed help because he claimed to have reached a point of "total disconnection" from society.
Though he was employed as a female professional model, he was generally dissatisfied with his identity and existence, and "was not loving life". Angel was unable to find appropriate help for completing his gender transition during his adolescent years.
This was because Angel was one of the earliest trans men to be allowed hormonal transition, due to which there was limited data on prior cases like his.
