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This article chronicles the experience of African trans women moving into trans advocacy in a more meaningful way and presents the rise of a movement for African trans women who fought to have their experience acknowledged within the domain of women and claiming their space in the feminist movement. It is written from the perspective of a coloured trans woman who was born and raised in rural South Africa during the apartheid years.
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People whose gender identity and/or expression is the same as their assigned sex at birth. It is a word used in preference of negative language such as ‘real woman’ or ‘biological woman’.
Personal (email communication) with Abheena Aher—a trans feminist activist from Delhi in India dated 4 January 2017.
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van der Merwe, L.L.A. Transfeminism(s) from the Global South: Experiences from South Africa. Development 60, 90–95 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-017-0140-7
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