
“We are women and we don’t want to grow old as men”
Two transgender women found refuge in each other when others rejected them.
Any attempt to express her gender identity was cut short when Anna entered school.
They realized that transgender women experience much more violence.

Dafina Halili
Dafina Halili is a senior journalist at K2.0, covering mainly human rights and social justice issues. Dafina has a master’s degree in diversity and the media from the University of Westminster in London, U.K..
This story was originally written in Albanian.