I Dated A Celebrity Who Kept Me A Secret Because I’m Trans

Phaylen Fairchild
14 min readJan 27, 2021

And he agreed, after two years, to talk to me about why.

The year was 2016. We talked on the phone, facetimed, met whenever I would travel and no one ever knew. During that time, he publicly dated cis women. Although in the beginning of our budding relationship, I often wondered if it would go anywhere. It was a rather effortless relationship, sometimes up to a…

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Phaylen Fairchild

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