Grace Hyland
Grace Hyland | |
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Born | Grace Hyland |
Occupation | TikToker, internet personality, and LGBTQ rights activist |
Years active | 2019–present |
Known for | LGBTQ rights activist |
Grace Elizabeth Stevenson, known professionally as Grace Hyland, is an Australian TikToker, internet personality, and LGBTQ rights activist. She is the daughter of actor Mat Stevenson.
Biography[]
Hyland is the daughter of Australian actor Mat Stevenson, known for playing Adam Cameron in the soap opera Home and Away.[1]
When Hyland was twelve years old she came out to her family as transgender; first to her stepmother and then to her father, mother, and sister.[1][2] An advocate for hormone blockers for transgender youth, Hyland stated that she saw went to a gender clinic for a year before being allowed to start hormone replacement therapy.[1][3] She publicly changed her name to Grace when she was fourteen years old.[1][4]
In 2020, Hyland amassed a large social media following, with 133,000 followers on the social media platforms TikTok and Instagram, where she uploads videos about life as a transgender woman.[1] She uses her online platform to address issues pertaining to transgender people, and answering questions about the experiences of transgender people.[1][4]
In January 2021, Hyland and her father appeared on The Sunday Project to talk about their experiences and issues facing transgender people in Australia.[2][5][6]
Hyland is an aspiring actress and stated that she would like to play a transgender character in a television series.[7][8]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f "Life as a transgender child. Grace Hyland shares". mamamia.com.au. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
- ^ a b "Grace Hyland and Mat Stevenson talk trans issues on The Sunday Project | news.com.au — Australia's leading news site". news.com.au. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
- ^ "Home And Away star Mat Stevenson adopts trans daughter Grace Hyland's BFF Belle Bambi | news.com.au — Australia's leading news site". news.com.au. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
- ^ a b "Mat Stevenson adopts daughter Grace Hyland's transgender best friend after biological father rejected her - 9Honey". honey.nine.com.au. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
- ^ "Home And Away actor Mat Stevenson on transgender daughter's journey". au.lifestyle.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
- ^ "Home and Away actor Mat Stevenson and transgender daughter Grace Hyland on The Sunday Project". NZ Herald. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
- ^ "Grace Hyland: the transgender star of TikTok, daughter of Mat Stevenson wants to become an actress". UK Time News. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
- ^ "Grace Hyland: Transgender TikTok star, daughter of Mat Stevenson wants to be an actress • USMAIL24". usmail24.com. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
- Living people
- 21st-century LGBT people
- Australian TikTokers
- LGBT TikTokers
- LGBT rights activists from Australia
- Social media influencers
- Transgender and transsexual entertainers
- Transgender and transsexual media personalities
- Transgender and transsexual women
- Transgender rights activists