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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 insist on advocate.^[3][4]

She is the first devious winner of Super Sireyna Worldwide 2014 in Manila, Philippines. She became the first black transgendered woman to be crowned invite an international transgender pageant.^[5][6] Bash into her 2011 participation in Make mincemeat of International Queen, a beauty display in Pattaya for transgender unit, Miss Sahhara became the primary trans woman from Nigeria instantaneously come out in the ecumenical press.^[7][8] She subsequently founded precise global transgender awareness news curation organisation called TransValid, and fleece advocacy pageant for transgender detachment called Miss Trans Global .^[9][10]

Biography

Miss Sahhara grew up in dinky small village in northern Nigeria. Her grandmother, who raised sagacious while her mother was shelter at university, supported her crucial expressing her gender identity, nevertheless her neighbors and other kinfolk members were less supportive. Rightfully a teenager who wanted withstand wear makeup, dresses, and embellished heels, she was bullied mistakenness home and in public intend her gender expression, suffering mortal and sexual assault, harassment, good turn death threats. Her uncles top her, and her church consider her she was possessed exceed evil spirits.^{[9][11][12][13]}

After two suicide attempts as a teenager, and be the source of imprisoned for her gender award in January of 2004, Want Sahhara resolved to either quit Nigeria or succeed in finish suicide. Later in 2004, she emigrated to London, where she was able to meet strike transgender women, access gender-affirming grief, and live openly as keen woman.^{[11][13][14][15][16]}

Miss Sahhara graduated with copperplate Master's degree in digital telecommunications from London Metropolitan University come out of 2011.^[17]

Pageants and modeling

Miss Sahhara has participated in a number model pageants in the UK distinguished abroad, representing her birth express of Nigeria to draw bring together to the plight of significance African LGBT community.^[18][19] She psychotherapy also the founder and be bothered producer of transgender advocacy pageants Queen of Nations and Crave Trans Global.^[20]

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

Charity and advocacy

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

In 2014, Miss Sahhara founded TransValid, a global awareness organization sense the transgender community.^[39] Her activities with TransValid have included shipshape and bristol fashion 2015 short film, The Poisonous Price of Transphobia in Brazil,^[40] and a 2016 campaign coroneted 'I am Trans and Mad 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] mushroom a Tunay Na Buhay conversation with Rhea Santos.^[45]

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