Mashuq Mushtaq Deen (he/they) is a trans man and child of Indian American, Muslim immigrant parents. He is a 2018 Lambda Literary Award winner, a 2020 Silver Medalist for India’s international Sultan Padamsee Playwriting Prize, and the first runner up for the Woodward International Playwriting Prize. His publications include two plays, Draw the Circle (Dramatists Play Service) and The Betterment Society (Methuen Books), as well as short stories and essays, which have been published in the Journal of Asian American Studies, In the Margins (an online publication of the Asian American Writers Workshop), and elsewhere. He shares a touching story of intersections of race, sex, gender, faith, cross-cultural and intergenerational expectations, transphobia, compassion, and love. —[Surviving Transphobia](https://www.survivingtransphobia.com/#about)