Interview with Tygra Slarii

Tygra Slarii is a trans pansexual woman assigned male at birth who uses both she/her, they/them, and it pronouns. She comes from a black family with three brothers, one of whom is an identical twin. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska. She moved to Arizona as a kid with her adopted family and attended her senior year of high school in Omaha, Nebraska where she began to form a relationship with her biological family and got into dancing and show choir. She also went to college in Omaha. Their parents passed, but their biological father now uses their correct pronouns and hasn’t had any issues while their biological mother took a while to come around. Her brothers are also all supportive now. They describe themselves as being flamboyantly gay growing up, wearing tight clothing, possessing eccentric hand movements, loud-mouth talking, and the “cissy in my walk.” They got lots of stares but nothing negative was said directly to them about it. Previously believing she was a curious flamboyant gay male, she came to eventually realize she was trans after researching it extensively. She got into drag when she was 21, and then at 23 realized it was time to transition. She also dated a trans man who realized she was trans before she did. She went to therapy to start hormones, which she says have made her more emotional. Before hormones, she hated her body. She plans on getting breast augmentation and is considering bottom surgery but also would like to have kids first. She’s dealt with misgendering in public. She’s currently in a relationship who validates the woman that she is and wants to be. She has two cats and a dog who she considers to be her babies and just moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Identifier: 8s45q897b
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Slarii, Tygra Trinity
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Jan. 26, 2017
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Aquarius
Brody Bartlett
Damon Kelsey
Michelle Obama
On the Roof
Puttin on the Ritz
Places: Minnesota > Hennepin County > City of Minneapolis > Minneapolis
Nebraska > Douglas County > City of Omaha > Omaha
Arizona
Topic(s): Adoption
Assigned gender
Augmentation mammaplasty
Ballroom dancing
Biological parenthood
Choirs
Drag
Drag community
Families
Hormone therapy
LGBTQ+ sex workers
MtFs
Sexuality
Transgender people
Transitioning (Gender)
Transphobia
Twins
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
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