Veso Golden Oke

Veso Golden Oke (born March 3, 1994) is a Nigerian transgender model, make-up artist and hairstylist. In 2019, she became the first openly transgender woman to compete in a beauty pageant in Africa. Quotes Being innovative, creative, showing love and kindness and loving your family! I’ve known from childhood, from the moment I was born. I had no choice to be born on this planet. At 14, I realized I couldn’t change anything about myself. I got educated and read links on social media to understand who I was. I accepted myself at a very young age after going through a lot of prayer sections just to feel normal. I have come to realize that I can’t change who I am. I’m a woman. In Nigeria, we’ve let religion take over our brains completely. Kids are born differently. If we’re able to accept the Holy Trinity, to accept that God is omnipotent, Jesus had a physical form and the holy spirit is in my body, why can’t they understand that I was spiritually born a woman in a man’s body? Africans, generally, we carry religion to high and forget human rights come before it. I don’t believe being transgender is influenced by anyone. It’s just natural. It’s not a social construct it’s something that happens naturally. I believe it is a natural phenomenon. Yes, a lot of. I used to have very low self-esteem but after I transitioned people accepted me more and I have more self-esteem, I’ve never felt more comfortable in my own skin. I think it’s true because there are men who target trans people. Also, trans people are naturally very sexy and attractive and it results in these sort of things happening. I’ve been assaulted and raped once. When it happened the next morning I refused to let it affect me. I’m a very strong person. I’ve never allowed myself to be fully traumatized by it. I almost took my life last time I allowed myself to be traumatized by discrimination, so never again. I don’t think there’s any difference between women assigned female at birth and trans women. Being a woman is on the inside. It’s what you feel, that is what the essence of being a woman is. There are different forms of women, we all try very hard to be accepted in society! It’s not discussed in the media because of the strong Christian mentality, I think they avoid talking about these issues, but I believe sexual violence happens to everyone straight or gay. It’s not about gender, it’s not about being big and strong. I think more representation is necessary. In Africa, I don’t think we are celebrated as much as we should be. I don’t think they even celebrate us at all. But I believe with time we will get more visibility and acceptance. Yes, I believe they celebrate trans women on International Women’s Day in the UK but in Africa, they don’t and I understand why and I think and hope in time we will get there. External links Category:Models from Nigeria Category:LGBT people Category:1994 births Category:Living people Category:Artists from Nigeria