I pushed my trans identity away because I was scared after years of negative conditioning.
Ayman grew up in a Christian family in Ukraine ‘The West only promotes gay and trans rights to sterilise Ukrainian women,’ my Slavic relative argued. I was around 13 years old and I found myself agreeing. In fact, I actually remember responding: ‘They’re sick people.’ This relative was an engineer and a smart person, I reasoned at the time. Many respectable people who supported this idea were, so how could they be wrong? I’m ashamed to admit it now, but I used to be transphobic.
It made me start to reevaluate what I’d been told my whole life about them. Their experiences of fighting for their self-determination didn’t match with the mentally ill and disparaging image of trans people that I grew up with. This is where I started my autism activism too, which helped me connect the dots between my questions around gender and my neurodiversity. Ayman wanted to be called Mowgli from a young age Autism and gender diverse activists like Lydia X. Z.
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