Trigger warning: this text incorporates themes of detransition and suicide.
On March 12, Eden Knight, a Saudi trans woman living in America, took her own life. As per the testimonies of her friends, in addition to her own statement, Knight’s death was preceded by a shocking chain of events, illustrating all too clearly the interconnected types of violence faced by trans migrants world wide.
Having moved to the US to attend university, Knight got here out as trans in the course of the Covid pandemic. Her friends remember a girl who was “funny, sharp, well-read, and anxious with making the world a greater place [...
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