“Society don’t have issues of me being a transwoman, unless I dress sexily, or flirt outrageously, then I am creating problems in society but if most of us blend in and mingle freely with everyone, then it shouldn’t really be an issue.”

“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.”

– Humans of Kuala Lumpur

Photostory by Mushamir Mustafa

Do you have a story? Let us know here: https://forms.gle/ht4HsvbxgSgcKS5h8

(This post was first published on April 18th 2015)