Ziggy Porsche Eixas, Author at MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://www.mambaonline.com/author/ziggy-porsche-eixas/ South Africa's leading LGBTQ news and community platform Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:32:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.mambaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-mamba_logo_output-32x32.png Ziggy Porsche Eixas, Author at MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa online https://www.mambaonline.com/author/ziggy-porsche-eixas/ 32 32 Trans Mental Health: My Journey to Turn Trauma into Purpose https://www.mambaonline.com/2025/04/04/trans-mental-health-my-journey-to-turn-trauma-into-purpose/ https://www.mambaonline.com/2025/04/04/trans-mental-health-my-journey-to-turn-trauma-into-purpose/#respond Fri, 04 Apr 2025 09:12:59 +0000 https://www.mambaonline.com/?p=120384 Trans mental health is rarely talked about. In this personal essay, Namibian activist Ziggy Porsche #Eixas shares their mental health journey.

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