Letoya Johnstone from Homa Bay county has opened up about the struggles of being born a transgender person. Transgender champion Letoya Johnstone has opened up about living as a transgender. In an interview with Jagero, the talented model shared how society cast them down despite knowing that she was a woman born as a male.
The model prefers to use the pronouns she and her despite many considering her a man. Letoya Johnstone on challenges of being transgender Letoya also noted the challenges transgenders face in Kenya, including not being able to change their names legally after transitioning from one gender to the other. “I am not feeling like a female; I am a woman who was born in a man’s body; let me make it that simple.
My womanhood is not something that is manifesting in my body. If I wanted it to manifest in my body, either I am going to use what we call transitioning,” she said. Letoya explained the different transitioning, which included social, legal and medical transitioning that most transgender people use. The transgender champion recalled going to a mixed school and sleeping at a girls’ hostel, and they would wonder what Letoya was doing there because, physically, the model was a man.
“I was never loved. When we were young, I was wearing dresses and nobody bothered about it until when you want to start going to church or school. They now pick clothes for you for either male or female,” she said.
by Amondi Aroko