Speaking in an exclusive interview with Young Africa Media, popular Nigerian transgender, Noni Salma, whose original name is Habeeb Lawal, she disclosed that she wished she had transitioned earlier than when she did.

According to her, the only regrets she has about transitioning is that she didn't do it when she was much younger.

"My 20s was just full of emptiness. The only regrets I have was that I wished I transitioned earlier. I wish I did it when I was in my teens", Noni" she said she was convinced she was a girl about 5/6 years old. When I was 5/6 years old, I was convinced I was a girl and then people started telling me about it," she said.

Noni who is formerly a man added that she doesn't have a problem with Nigerians writing about her but she however doesn't like it when she is described as a man who turned into a woman.

"My problem is not about them putting out a story about me. It's about how they put out the story, Nigerian man turns himself into a woman. I have never been a man. If you want to find out what transgender is, you need to find out. "Identity varies. There are people who their identity matches the one they were assigned at birth. Good for them. There are people whose identity doesn't match with the sex they were assigned at birth," she said.