“My childhood was a little confusing for me—I found that I had an attraction for girls, so I thought that maybe I was a boy. On top of that, in reaction to living in India where women are often sexually harassed, it led me to reject my femininity altogether. I thought, ‘If this is what it means to be a woman, then I don’t want to be one’.
Nevertheless, I know that I am attracted to women, and that biologically and emotionally I am a woman. But for so many