EXTRACT | God created trans people, too
This is an edited extract from Tshiamo Modisane's memoir, I am Tshiamo: My transition to self-acceptance and womanhood.
09 February 2025 - 00:00
I was forced to use the male toilets at school and in public, which came with its own horrors as the years went on. I was around the age of 10 when a senior, who was two grades above me, pressed me against a wall in the boys’ toilets. This boy was well into puberty — he was aware of his actions. This, to him, was an act of “correctional behaviour”...
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