June Chua talks about her “marvellous” days growing up in Singapore, her loving family, her successful career in sex work and, eventually, how she managed to realise her full potential by establishing the much-beloved T Project, the first social service for the Singaporean transgender community.
While most of us know her as a familiar face (with a distinctive accent) in the transgender community, she reminds us (rather feistily and on multiple occasions) that she is more than just the founder of the T Project. In this laugh-out-loud interview, she discusses her multiple awards for her work in various spaces, her frustration with stereotypes about transgender people, her thoughts on the evolution of trans issues over the years, and how she has managed to stay true to herself through it all.