state Sharia laws prohibit gender expression that is not normative, so it was very difficult for me to explain what I wanted to become.When I was 11 I was sent to an all-male boarding school.
It wasn't a place where I could express myself; I was sort of role playing myself, being what people expected me to be, and sleepwalking through secondary education.
I left Malaysia at 18 to study medicine in Belgium, but even during that time I didn't know how to reach out for help. After medical school I.