✍ = 中文翻譯The post questioned Pejic’s “eligibility” to identify as a woman.
Initially I wasn’t going to publicise the story because the subject matter pertains to a very personal and private matter that has nothing to do with me, but after seeing the lack of respect and knowledge shown by people after Pejic’s decision to go public with her story, I cant help but open my mouth because this is bigger than me and it’s bigger than Andreja.
I first became aware of Andreja early in 2011 during her rocket to fame as the “Boy from Broadmeadows” in Melbourne who closed Gaultier in a gown and posed nude for Steven Meisel, emanating strength and confidence and a comfort in her own skin that both baffled and beckoned me.
The world and I became obsessed in an instant, but for very different reasons.
I think my story can help people. My goal is to give a human face to this struggle, and I feel like I have a responsibility…
The media always seemed to be interested less in the achievements in her career and more in her sexual preferences or gender identity, both of which she remained quiet about. For me, personally, seeing her succeed as she was, in a world extremely negative and non-accepting of anyone or anything “different,” just made everything make sense.
It made it better.
Her very being in the fashion world, a world in which I very much wanted to be accepted, was a lot, but her acceptance into mainstream society cemented a shift in the world of the understanding of something more than male or female, black or white. Reading her interview with Style.com, it was apparent that’s exactly why she chose to make her transition public – “I think my story can help people. My goal is to give a human face to this struggle, and I feel like I have a responsibility.”
Pejic goes on to discuss her understanding of her identity at a young age and what she now, as a woman, asks of the world.
“I would like them to understand that we are people. We’re human beings, and this is a human life. This is reality for us, and all we ask for is acceptance and validation for what we say that we are. It’s a basic human right.”
I hope for the day where this will be a non-issue and with that I want to thank Andreja for bringing her story to the fore where the uneducated can learn about what it is to truly be a woman.
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