'Most LGBTQ+ Nigerians existed quietly in the shadows until the passing of the draconian Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act (SSMPA) in 2014, which criminalizes our existence because of external right-wing political interference by radical religious groups. Africa is not truly free until they let go of their colonial imported religions and cast the rusted shackles of oppression left behind by their abusive foreign despots.
[In] the United Kingdom [where I now live], there’s the Gender Recognition Act 2004, an act that allows trans people to have their gender recognized by the law. [Under it,] I am included in the gender binary system and tolerated for conforming — if I don’t rear my ugly head above the parapet and maintain my station. But as soon as I demand more in life, like being included in female-only spaces such as sports, beauty pageants, shows, or other gendered events, I am suddenly reminded and told to know my place, meaning my tiny dark damp cold place at the bottom of [society]. It’s where many of my nonbinary siblings and Black transgender sisters are relegated to, for not presenting their identities as the patriarchy has stipulated.
We are told we are not women or human enough to exist because we look alien and we make the rest of society uncomfortable, hence we are denied jobs, education, housing, love, and relationships. Then the same anti-trans society wonders why we are being murdered, why we take up dangerous jobs to survive, or [being driven] to suicide.'
Miss saHHara (she/her), a Nigerian British model, trans activist, and founder of TransValid
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