Zura: I am a 24 year old Malay Muslim. I was born in Kelantan, but I moved to Seremban ten years ago. I moved to Seremban when I was only 14 years old because I had been orphaned when I was seven, and I was forced to remove myself from my remaining family seven years later because no-one accepted me. From the age of 12, I realised that I liked Photo credit: Shieko Reto
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to wear female clothes and to do the jobs which are traditionally done by women, like cooking and cleaning, and I enjoyed wearing make-up. I had been living with my foster fa- ther and my brother in Terengganu but this was no longer possible for me. I came to Ser- emban because this is where my mother