Accepted by his family but rejected by the state, a transgender man in Kosovo is going public about his struggle to officially change his first name in his ID documents from female to male.

Born a girl, Blert Morina always felt like a boy.

“There wasn’t any particular moment when I thought, ‘now I feel like a boy, or a man.’ Since I was a kid I have taken it for granted… I’ve always seen myself as a man,” Morina told BIRN.

But for Kosovo’s conservative society, that’s not enough.

Now 28, Morina is the first member of Kosovo’s transgender community to go public in challenging the state over its refusal to officially change his first name from the feminine Blerta or to alter the gender in his ID papers from female to male.

See at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-s-transgender-challenge-06-08-2018