. Linda: I am a 25 year old Malay Muslim. I was born in Ipoh but I have lived in Seremban for the last seven years. Since I was 16 years old, I started to identify as a woman. I started to take hormones which I bought from the pharmacy. My siblings had no problem with me dressing as a woman, but my father did not like it. He used to scold me and beat me, so I was forced to run away on two occasions to the house of a friend. After I completed my high school education, I moved to Seremban in order to study architecture at the college here