A young transgender man was sitting in a public minibus in the Ugandan capital, when an old schoolmate boarded and started loudly calling him by his former female name. The conductor then attempted to lock Shawn in the vehicle so that everyone could ‘check’ if he was male or female.
“When people give you trouble like that, it makes you concerned about who you are and the choices you’ve made,” said the man who declined to give his full name.
“If I say I’m a man, am I really a man? Am I man enough? … You start thinking about hormone therapy. Is it that that makes you a man?”