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