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- Speaking about his journey of transitioning from Emma to Eddie, Ayres says he first realised he was a man during a cycling trip in Pakistan 16 years ago.
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Sep 6, 2016 · A former ABC radio host and musician realised he was a transgender man years ago – but it took a stint working as a teacher in Afghanistan to impel Emma Ayres to become Eddie Ayres.
Sep 10, 2016 · Growing up in a happy single parent family in England, Eddie says he realised he was attracted to women when he was around 14-years-old. “I got to lesbian and just stopped,” he explained. In the 16 years that followed on from that day in Pakistan, Ayres’ life underwent major changes.
Nov 20, 2017 · On the latest episode of the No Filter podcast, Eddie Ayres speaks to Mia Freedman and tells her about the moment he realised that he was transgender.
- Eddie Ayres
- A Conservative Start
- You Have to Dress The Part
- 'You Must Have Been in Such Terrible pain'
- Put Back Together Again
To begin with, Eddie Ayres was born Emma Ayres in the '60s to staunchly conservative parents in little-known Shropshire — "the largest county in England with the smallest population". After stints studying in London and Berlin, he spent eight years playing the viola with the Hong Kong Philharmonic before moving to Australia. It was here, as Emma, h...
Getting to Afghanistan is the easy part, you simply pop down to the travel agent and book an Emirates flight to Kabul. And since Eddie already had a teaching position lined up with ANIM, the visa process was relatively straightforward. The clothes, however? That required a rethink. "My clothes at that time, as any good butch lesbian will attest, we...
When considering how to tell your mum you're about to transition, it's not often you have to consider the internet connection in Afghanistan. But these things mattered a lot for Eddie. He couldn't afford to share his biggest decision with his family and then have the FaceTime call drop out. "To give you an idea of where my parents come from, my mot...
"When I finally accepted that I was transgender — because it's not a decision, it's definitely an acceptance, well, that's what I believe — I have to say it was finally a great relief," Eddie said. He returned to Afghanistan for a while after a double mastectomy and increasingly began living as a man. He ditched the hijabs he never liked, and the j...
In an interview published in the Sydney Morning Herald in 2016, Ayres came out as a transgender man. He said that he had first realised he was a man during a cycling trip in Pakistan in 2013 in a "total beam of light" moment one evening while watching the film Boys Don't Cry. He said, "I've waited a long time to do this.
Sep 19, 2018 · He tells Nine to Noon's Kathryn Ryan that he first realised he was transgender while cycling through Pakistan in 1999. On the cycling trip, Ayres, as always, introduced himself to people as 'Emma'.
Oct 6, 2017 · In 2014 Emma Ayres was spiralling into depression after grappling with her gender. After a fateful move to Afghanistan to teach cello to children she found peace within and decided to become the ...
