Jamie Anthony Lotun-Raines^[3][4][5] (born 19 February 1994^[6]) is an English YouTuber and LGBT advocate.^[7] His videos include commentary on gender identity and other LGBTQ+ issues as well as general lifestyle topics. Raines is a trans man and has documented his gender transition, including the effects of hormone replacement therapy and gender reassignment surgery.^[8] His channel, Jammidodger, has over one million subscribers.^[2]

Raines is from Colchester in Essex. He attended St Mary's School in Colchester, and later Colchester Sixth Form College.^[7] He has not disclosed his deadname, and has stated that he sees no reason to disclose it.^[9]

Raines recalls feeling like a boy from the age of four, and that he chose to express himself in masculine ways from an early age. At the age of 16, he realized he was transgender after watching a documentary involving a trans man and relating to their shared experiences.^[8] He describes his family and close friends as being immediately supportive and choosing the name Jamie with their help.^[10] In order to document the physical changes he underwent during his transition, Raines took a photograph of himself each day for three years.^[11]

Raines is married to fellow YouTuber Shaaba Lotun-Raines (née Lotun).^{[12][13][14][15]} Both are bisexual.^[16] The two met in a college art class and became close friends prior to Raines' transition.^[8] When Raines came out, Lotun's family initially disapproved of their relationship, but eventually grew to support the couple's relationship.^[12] They then attended university together and both now hold PhDs.^[17][18] Each makes semi-regular appearances on the other's YouTube channel.^[19]

Raines received his Gender Recognition Certificate late in 2019, which allows him to be recognised as a man in marriage.^[20] He describes this as marking the end of his transition process.^[21] The couple had initially planned to marry in 2020 but they chose to delay the wedding due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, which would have prevented members of Lotun's Mauritian extended family from attending, eventually marrying in 2022.^[22]

Raines and Lotun share two cats, Apollo [b. 2013/14], and Prawn [b. 2021].^[23][24]

Raines' series of daily selfies, which he took during three years of his gender transition, were compiled into a 20-second montage for the Channel 4 television documentary Girls To Men.^[25][11][39]

Raines was featured in the Channel 4 documentary series Bride and Prejudice covering the tensions within Lotun's family in the run up to their engagement.^[7]