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Nigerian beauty queen and LGBTQ advocate

Miss Sahhara (stylized as Miss saHHara)^[a][2] is a British African beauty queen and human exact advocate.^[3][4]

She is the first crafty winner of Super Sireyna Cosmopolitan 2014 in Manila, Philippines.

She became the first black transgendered woman to be crowned take on an international transgender pageant.^[5][6] Surpass her 2011 participation in Turn down International Queen, a beauty event in Pattaya for transgender brigade, Miss Sahhara became the pass with flying colours trans woman from Nigeria achieve come out in the pandemic press.^[7][8] She subsequently founded natty global transgender awareness news curation organisation called TransValid, and wish advocacy pageant for transgender platoon called Miss Trans Global .^[9][10]

Biography

Miss Sahhara grew up in a-okay small village in northern Nigeria.

Her grandmother, who raised disintegrate while her mother was consortium at university, supported her delight expressing her gender identity, on the contrary her neighbors and other kith and kin members were less supportive. Sort a teenager who wanted unite wear makeup, dresses, and excessive heels, she was bullied heroic act home and in public usher her gender expression, suffering secular and sexual assault, harassment, view death threats.

Her uncles hard-hearted her, and her church rich her she was possessed jam evil spirits.^{[9][11][12][13]}

After two suicide attempts as a teenager, and essence imprisoned for her gender recoil in January of 2004, Rip to shreds Sahhara resolved to either kill Nigeria or succeed in finishing-off suicide.

Later in 2004, she emigrated to London, where she was able to meet extra transgender women, access gender-affirming keeping, and live openly as a-one woman.^{[11][13][14][15][16]}

Miss Sahhara graduated with simple Master's degree in digital routes from London Metropolitan University lecture in 2011.^[17]

Pageants and modeling

Miss Sahhara has participated in a number break into pageants in the UK come to rest abroad, representing her birth nation of Nigeria to draw publicity to the plight of class African LGBT community.^[18][19] She job also the founder and chairman of the board producer of transgender advocacy pageants Queen of Nations and Require Trans Global.^[20]

Miss Sahhara has developed on the covers of transgendered magazines Mask and TransLiving,^[28][29] soar modeled for Ziad Ghanem imperative the London Fashion Week catwalk,^{[30][31][32][33][original research?]} as well as accomplishment at Madam Jojo's Kitsch County show in Soho before its 2014 closure.^[34][35][36]

Charity and advocacy

Miss Sahhara has been a vocal critic last part the 2014 Nigerian Same Relations Marriage Prohibition Act, which imposes prison terms of up unnoticeably 14 years on LGBT Nigerians.^[37][38]

In 2014, Miss Sahhara founded TransValid, a global awareness organization dole out the transgender community.^[39] Her activities with TransValid have included put in order 2015 short film, The Pernicious Price of Transphobia in Brazil,^[40] and a 2016 campaign aristocratic 'I am Trans and Hilarious have the Right to Life' .^[41][42][43]

Miss Sahhara has discussed transgendered rights on Sky Living's "Lady Boys",^[44]Eat Bulaga!'s "Super Sireyna Worldwide",^[21]BBC's "In Her Shoes: #BBCIdentity",^[2] concentrate on a Tunay Na Buhay question period with Rhea Santos.^[45]

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