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The apple trees are blossoming outside Antonina’s window. She has been quarantined, alone in her apartment, for almost two months. 

Antonina is 23 years old. She doesn’t identify as male or female, and accepts any pronoun people assign to her. She has cropped dark hair and talks softly during our video chat.

“Yesterday, on the street, a little boy called me ‘lady’ and an old lady called me ‘boy,’” she told me. 

Before the lockdown began, life in Yekaterinburg, a city to the east of Russia’s Ural mountains, often threw up these situations for Antonina. She asked to be referred to by her first name only, for fear of repercussions.