'I couldn't find trans Muslim role model – so I became one'

'I couldn't find trans Muslim role model – so I became one'

After arriving in the UK at 16, Faye Kingston spent years navigating shame, isolation and the fear of losing everything for being herself. In this first-person Pride essay, she reflects on transition, faith, family, love and why she became the role model she once desperately needed… For years, I thought Pride belonged to other people. People who were free to be themselves. People who weren’t carrying a secret so heavy that it shaped every decisi…