In Guyana, it’s not easy when ‘he’ becomes ‘she’

Alessandra Hereman

At the age of three, Gulliver’s godfather bought her a pink lunch-kit. She remembers there being a girl in long-boots and the words “Pretty Merry Girl” emblazoned upon it.

“…I loved that lunch-kit,” Gulliver recalls, with a smile peeling back across her face.

But, three months after she got it, Gulliver’s mother returned from the interior and she was