“I have to take female hormones because I want to be a woman. I already am mentally – and that is where gender is located. Gender is not located in-between your legs…Even transmale, those who are female and become male have to take testosterone. They have beards and the butt will shrink – some do a mastectomy and remove their breasts too.
“When I produce my IC my name will be Ali Bin Abu (not real name), yet I am like this (female looking). When they call me Encik Ali, I present myself and they ask me “Is this you? Because the name here says Ali Bin Abu, and male.”
“Gender is a concept that is fluid and cannot be dictated by what is between ‘your legs’.
“I am proudly a woman and I believe that people should call you as you wish to be called, even if your identification card says otherwise.”
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(This post was first published on April 18th 2015)