“My mother said that she is going to commit suicide if I go into the transitioning process. I honestly didn’t know what to do at that time. She pressured me so much. It made me feel bad all the time. I never felt happy with myself. I still carry those traumas with me. This has affected my confidence and self-esteem. I get depressed. The hardest part wasn’t the insults from strangers, it was knowing that my own mother, the person who was supposed to love me unconditionally, would rather see me disappear than accept me. But I found my strength in some of my friends who care about me. Today, I am still healing. But I look in the mirror now, and I see someone I am proud of. Someone who fought to exist”