"I am very afraid, but I just want people to know that we do exist," Shahd says about her decision to speak out about life as a transgender woman. Like the other person in this article, we have changed Shahd's name to protect her. We have been messaging her over an encrypted app for her safety, and she travels away from her home to video call us in secret from a darkened room. Shahd shows us her hair which she was forced to cut into a masculine style, but does not reveal by whom. She the...