Landon (he/him), a gifted musician and artist, attends The University of Houston and is a passionate advocate for transgender rights. Landon has participated in local and state initiatives to expand and protect trans rights through testifying in front of his school board and Texas legislators, working with state legislators to introduce and fight for supportive legislation, and engaging his school and local community in conversation.
Landon is a founding Champion of The GenderCool Project and serves on the organization’s Board of Directors. Additionally, he works with the Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) which aims to further gender-diverse equality in Texas. His advocacy work has been featured in Rolling Stone’s ‘Trans in the South: Meet Kids Finding Acceptance in the Bible Belt,’ a story chronicling his experience growing up as a trans person in the South, in an op-ed for Them entitled ‘As a Trans Teen in Texas, I’ve Been Fighting for My Right to Exist Since I Was 12,’ and in Outsmart Magazine’s 2022 Gayest and Greatest Awards as ‘Most Prominent Youth LGBTQ Activist.’
