“She doesn’t want to be. She is,” Thobeka Yose said in response to a woman who attended “Signs of a struggle”, one of the Saturday sessions of this year’s edition of the Franschhoek Literary Festival, which spanned the weekend of 17 to 19 May. That was the moment when our tears spilled over after an already emotionally charged discussion between Yose and Sara-Jayne Makwala-King, whose remarkable insights and empathy held us throughout the session. The woman in the audience spoke about a grandchild who is transgender. She was asking Yose how to deal with the reality of this fact that she was struggling to understand. “Love your grandchild,” Yose said …
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