7 Indya Moore Facts You Should Know About

Indya Moore is such a role model. She went from years of bullying, misgendering, discrimination and even abuse to becoming the star of Pose, one of Luis Vuitton’s faces and becoming one of the most influential people in the world and just an all-time brilliant transgender non-binary actor – what a life and they’re only 25. Despite this incredible story of success, there are still so many things you probably don’t know about Indya Moore. So we’re here to fix that now and give you some Indya Moore facts.

1.Indya Was Raised In A Jehovah’s Witness Family

Both Indya’s parents were practising Jehovah’s Witnesses and that meant that they had completely no understanding what it’s like to raise a genderqueer child. When Indya didn’t act with their assigned gender their parents would use punishment to try and change that behaviour. That must’ve been one hell of a trying and difficult time for Indya. These days Indya chooses to interpret that not as cruelty, even though that’s how it felt at the time, but more as a lack of understanding. Their parents have never experienced what it’s like to have a child who’s genderqueer so they had no frame of reference, they just couldn’t understand.

2.Indya Left Home When They Were Just 14

Living with parents who don’t understand you is not easy, add a religious element to that and it can become quite unbearable. Indya knows that their parents loved them, but just couldn’t accept them for who they are, so at the age of 14, Indya made a decision to leave home and enter the world of foster care. That wasn’t much easier. They’ve lived in multiple foster homes all over the city facing a lot of problems and abuse on the way.

3.Indya First Tried Hormone Replacement In Foster Care

One of Indya’s foster parents was a transgender woman and she allowed Indya to try hormone replacement by giving them some of her own. Indya says it was a great feeling, they felt happier, more beautiful and more comfortable in their own body. But eventually said foster parent cut them off from their supply and Indya was forced to do some pretty questionable things that included trading sexual favours for money in order to be able to access hormone replacement therapy.