A lot of people trying to ask her out or for a one-night stand, makes her feel good. For those who enter her DM, most of them have no idea who she is. It’s all about the photos.
Martin Hughes realized who she was at the age of seven. At that young age, playing with the boys didn’t feel right. She knew within her she was a girl.
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Society was not cruel at the beginning to Martin. However, Senior High School proved to be a difficult nut to crack.
“I caught myself in a role I didn’t want to play anymore at the age of 7. The vibe of the boys was annoying. I think it was toxic for me because I felt like a boy playing with girls.
“At the age of 7, makeup wasn’t a big deal. It was all about the girl talks, the barbies and the girl clothes. It was fun,” Martin Hughes told Pulse.com.gh.
She had experienced being herself as a girl by trying a few things from her mother who did not know at the time. By the time she enrolled to Mfantsipim School, she was already in her element.
“High School was the trouble. That was stress. The real hard life because I went to a boys school. I was in Mfantsipim School and it was stressful.
“It was a hypocritical system. You have boys telling you stuff, proposing to you and all but in the eye of the public, they will be judging you.
“I didn’t see it as a problem because you’re in the closet. I know you’re hiding and that’s your problem,” the 20-year-old talked about life in Mfantsipim School.
The experience in Cape Coast was not devoid of the troubles that come with being transgender in Ghana. For many teachers, Martin Hughes was the black sheep, the prime scapegoat when it came to trouble. She had already been tagged and it affected her truth.
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Recalling one of her experiences, Martin narrates how someone touched her one night at school but changed and falsified the story in the morning. The usual stereotype had Martin judged before validation until an eyewitness came to her aid.
Martin-Hughes had her fair share of suspensions in school but was never dismissed. She embraced freedom, and did makeup whiles in a boys’ school, and since warnings by school officials to stop fell on deaf ears, she ended up with 4 suspensions during her stay at Mfantsipim.
