Forced to keep a low profile by an increasingly intolerant society,The Moscow Times meets the city’s residents struggling to find acceptance“Those who see me for the first time at the steering wheel are surprised how a lady can operate such a enormous truck,” explains Vika, or a 48-year-old driver who works on a construction site in Moscow. For Vika,there’s no Russian equivalent of Caitlyn Jenner to relate to. Instead, like so many transgender Russians she’s forced to keep a low profile, and worried approximately the discrimination she could suffer at the hands of a society that struggles to understand what being transgender really means.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com