Jacob Tobia

In 2019, Tobia was a guest on Trevor Noah's The Daily Show. They discussed Tobia's book Sissy which addresses the term "gender chill", gendered violence, and the playful nature of non-binary genders.

In November 2019, Showtime announced they will be developing a half-hour show based on Tobia's memoir Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story. Tobia will serve as co-writer and co-executive producer for the adaptation, which will follow the life of Tobi Gibran, a non-binary student who moves from North Carolina to New York City.

In 2018, Tobia became the face of an advertising campaign for the gender non-conforming makeup brand Fluide, promoting a line of lip colors named after queer spaces, such as gay bars.

In 2017, Tobia moved from New York to Los Angeles to begin working on Season 4 of Jill Soloway's series Transparent. In June 2017, Tobia announced they would be releasing a memoir titled Sissy. Tobia also provided the voice of Double Trouble in season 4 of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

Tobia was featured in MTV's The T Word, where they were interviewed by Laverne Cox. In 2015, Tobia was profiled in the GLAAD Award-nominated episode of True Life: I'm Genderqueer by MTV. In 2016 they were named in Out's 100. Later in 2016, Tobia created, co-produced and hosted Queer 2.0, an original LGBTQ series for NBC News.

In September 2013, Tobia raised over $10,000 for the Ali Forney Center running across the Brooklyn Bridge in five-inch heels as part of their Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) commitment to action. They were recently honored again for their larger impact to LGBTQIA+ community by CGI U in 2018 at the University of Chicago.

Jacob Tobia (born August 7, 1991) is an American LGBT rights activist, writer, producer, television host and actor. In 2019, they published their memoir titled Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story. They are also the voice of the character Double Trouble in DreamWorks' animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

Tobia's grandparents were Syrians who immigrated to the United States in the 1950s who spoke Arabic, which Tobia said was "the language that I do not speak but wish I could." Tobia was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina in a Methodist family and graduated in 2010 from Raleigh Charter High School, serving there as president of the Gay Straight Alliance and being active in student government. Tobia applied to Harvard University, and was accepted, but chose to attend Duke University instead where they graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Human Rights Advocacy. While a student at Duke, Tobia served as the vice president of equity and outreach for Duke Student Government, was co-president of Blue Devils United, and president of Duke Students for Gender Neutrality.