F1NN5TER

Jude (born 21 April 2000), known professionally as F1NN5TER, is an English Twitch streamer, TikToker, and YouTuber.

He became known for his long-term cross-dressing, which began as a campaign in which he would cross-dress as his e-girl persona Rose for a month if he received $1,000 in donations.

He received broader attention in 2023 when he was temporarily banned from Twitch, which he said was for violating a policy generally applied only to women.

Later in 2023, he raised $50,000 on-stream for the transgender medical care provider GenderGP.

In March 2024, he came out as genderfluid and said that he was receiving feminizing hormone replacement therapy, having through his crossdressing "uncovered a part of [him]self that [he]'d been purposely shutting down".

F1NN5TER has streamed video games on YouTube and Twitch.

He raised $50,000 through streaming, which Watermark compared to Hbomberguy's fundraiser for Mermaids in 2019.

On 1 March 2024, F1NN5TER uploaded a YouTube video titled "Coming Out", in which he explained that he had begun crossdressing "for a 'meme, but that his crossdressing had attracted more trans viewers, and that through them he had learned more about the transgender community. He said that as he explored his gender, "It felt a bit like I'd uncovered a part of myself that I'd been purposely shutting down for as long as I could remember, and never questioned why." He said that he had been taking feminizing hormone replacement therapy and considered himself genderfluid, expressing openness to all third-person pronouns but preferring . F1NN5TER added that he is bisexual and closed the video with brief conversations with his parents, who expressed their support.

He would sometimes cross-dress as an e-girl character named Rose, and in 2020 began a campaign called "Girl Month", in which he would dress as Rose for a month if he received $1,000 in donations.

"Girl Month" subsequently turned into years of crossdressing.

F1NN5TER grew his hair long and gained popularity on TikTok in clips where his e-girl aesthetic included long false eyelashes and thigh-highs adorned with bows.

In season 2 of the MC Championship, a Minecraft tournament, F1NN5TER was on the winning team in events 16 (August 2021) and 23 (July 2022).

On February 7, 2023, F1NN5TER was suspended from Twitch for three days.

While Twitch did not provide a reason publicly, F1NN5TER said that they privately said the ban was for "prolonged touching of female presenting breasts".

F1NN5TER, who at the time identified as a cisgender man and a femboy, said that he had been adjusting his bra and opined that "As a man, touching your chest can now be bannable depending on how feminine Twitch sees you :)". According to GameRevolution, Twitch's rules for clothing have long been criticised as vague, and the platform also has a "Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches" category. Issy van der Velde of TheGamer criticised Twitch for "deciding a streamer's gender for them" and posed the converse question of whether a masculine-presenting woman would be exempt from the policy F1NN5TER was said to violate, also expressing concerns about how the rule would be applied to trans men. The case was later cited by Charlie Ferguson in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review as an example of how "attire can communicate a message about gender regardless of whether the wearer intended to share said message".

The same week, F1NN5TER was quoted in The Mary Sue for his response to PragerU's criticism of men wearing women's clothing: "But what if it’s reeeeaaallly fun".

F1NN5TER announced an intention in December 2022 to fundraise for an organisation, and in May 2023 chose GenderGP, the only private provider of healthcare for transgender youth in the United Kingdom.