Born as Susan in Los Angeles, California, USA, Buck Angel is a transgender adult film actor and producer and as well as trans right activist and sex educator. After many years marked by gender dysphoria, suicide attempt and alcohol and drugs consumption, Angel begun his gender reassignment therapy at 28. At the time he was working as a female model, but was unhappy as a woman and was considering suicide. Being the "guinea pig" in the female-to-male transgender reassignment therapy he was able to achieve satisfactory results, which allowed him to live as a man. During this process he realized he won't be able to have a real functional penis, so he decided not to undergo a bottom surgery, the fact he later used in his adult film career, when he described himself as "the man with a pussy". He produced a number of adult films under the imprint Buck Angel Entertainment, including a porn spoof of Le secret de Brokeback Mountain (2005) called Buckback Mountain (2007). He went on to becoming the first trans man to perform in a filmed sex scene with a trans woman (Allanah Starr) and winning the AVN Award for Transsexual Performer of the Year (as the only transsexual man to date). He later appeared in Naked (2008), a documentary about the adult film industry. After realizing his porn work had a positive impact on many people dealing with gender dysphoria and other similar issues, Angel broadened his activities to trans rights activism and sex education. In 2010 he appeared as a guest speaker for Ideacity in Canada, where he talked about the social construct of masculinity. In order to educate people about sex, gender and related issues, he appeared in a biographical documentary Mr. Angel (2013), as well as in The Trans List (2016), which collects a number of interviews with individuals on the transgender spectrum. He created an online dating website for transgender men, BuckAngelDating and partnered with Perfect Fit Brand to create a sex toy meant to reduce gender dysphoria in trans men. He was married to dominatrix Karin Winslow aka Ilsa Strix (now the wife of Lana Wachowski ), and to body piercer Elayne Angel from 2003 to 2014.