My experience travelling abroad

 Hey you all guys, what’s up? , in todays blog lets talk about my travel experience abroad. How i manage to travel alone as a transgender.



Back in 2018 I had my first travelling experience, to Malaysia. I flew from Manila to Kuala Lumpur. So since I’m transgender and the country that I will go to is Malaysia, a Muslim country, I had been told that people in Malaysia are very strict regardless of my gender identity, because of their religion. 

I remember back then when I was in immigration. Since it was my first time travelling abroad they asked me a lot of questions, like “Where was I going? What was I going to do there? Who was I going to meet there? Where was I going to stay? Lots of questions like that. 

 




I was so nervous actually, back then, because it was my first time travelling. I told myself “Why do I need to be nervous? They are just asking me and all I need to do is to answer them truthfully, without lies”


So everything worked out fine. You just need to be presentable and you need to respect their culture. There was one time I experienced discrimination in Malaysia, when I was out eating. A man called me “Ladyboy” and it hurt me but I just ignored him because I realised maybe Malaysians are new in our world, the world of LGBT Community, because it is a Muslim country . 



But even though that happened I still want to go back there. Besides it was the third time that I had been there and I am looking forward to going back there again one day. The food is good, people are ok and there are a lot of places to go. 

 

All you need to remember is that everywhere you go to you need to respect the place and the people that live in that place.

 

 

Always remember life is to short so lived your life to the fullest ❤️❤️



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