As we celebrate the TGDoV this 31st March, in 2021 already at least 15 transgender person of colour have been killed. The 2019 marked the deadliest year with 331 trans and gender diverse people death.[i] This number is likely to be much higher because in most countries, data on murdered trans and gender-diverse people are not systematicallyContinue reading “Visibility without acceptance: the transgender people of colour dilemma”
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Muslim trans people should reclaim their visibility through intersectionality and decoloniality
Transgender history in a broader sense of gender variance has existed in cultures worldwide since ancient times. As early as the Iron Age period, archaeologists discovered the evidence of a transgender warrior in southern Russia. They’ve found ‘reliable molecular genetic data’ indicating that she was born ‘male’. In the earliest civilizations throughout Europe, Asia, the MiddleContinue reading “Muslim trans people should reclaim their visibility through intersectionality and decoloniality”