Transgenders: more than meets the eye

[Felix]

Time Out Hong Kong
Arthur Tam
http://www.timeout.com.hk/gay-lesbian/features/50626/transgenders-more-than-meets-the-eye.html

Every now and then I still think – why couldn't I have just been born a boy?" muses 33-year-old trans-male Kasper Wan. "But I don't want to think like that any more. I don't need to be a natural born male." And so our interview begins.

Wan is just one member of Hong Kong's marginalised transgender community which is this year being recognised for the first time at the city's annual day against homophobia. To put the 'T' back into LGBT, this year's IDAHO has transformed into IDAHOT – the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. Post-op trans-female Joanne Leung (Wai-yun Leung, formerly Donne Wai-ming Leung) and pre-op trans-male Wan of the Transgender Resource Centre know plenty about the challenges faced by transgender individuals during their own long journeys of life transformation.