There is something that people in the UK spreading fear of trans people need to understand. I think they don’t really get what they’re doing, or the grim colonial history they are choosing to be part of.
I am what Kenyans call a mixed-tribe person. One side of my family is Meru, the other is Kalenjin, specifically Kipsigis. My great-grandmother on the Meru side was Maasai.
Usually, this would be seen as a rich heritage. But I do not speak any of the associated languages and only now am I exploring what the cultures of ‘my people’ were, and what elements remain today.
