BODY LANGUAGE “When did you realise that you were born in the wrong body?” I was recently asked by a journalist. It was at the age of eight. I remember being on a school trip to Port Elizabeth. It was hot but we couldn’t swim because the signs on the beach read: “Whites only”. This was my first pained experience of my body being legally wrong and unsuitable for swimming in the ocean. Being born black and transgender are inseparable issues. The rejection...
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